Posted on 08/27/2013 10:55:29 PM PDT by grundle
Yes, it's shocking. California automaker Tesla Motors is outselling a number of very well established vehicle brands in its home state—with only one model: the all-electric Model S.
In June, Tesla outsold (on the basis of registrations) Buick, Lincoln, Porsche, Volvo, and Cadillac—and far outsold Jaguar and Land Rover combined. And the long-established, full-line luxury brand Infiniti only posted just 51 more registrations in the state than Tesla.
This wasn't just a monthly sales blip, either. Even on a year-to-date basis, through June, Tesla has sold more vehicles in California than Land Rover, Jaguar, Lincoln, Volvo, or Porsche.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
They just started production and sales in 4Q12...
HAHAHA!
Next you’ll tell me a bicycle is better than an airplane because it doesn’t need a runway.You cracked.
Cali currently has 1.7% electricity sourced from coal.
Buick Lacrosse Hybrid
Lincol MKZ Hybrid
Volvo XC60 Hybrid
Cadillac Escalade Hybrid
Oops, Lincol = Lincoln
I stand corrected.
The Tesla isn’t a do-everything car, but will beat most gasoline-engined cars when it comes to performance. That’s my original claim and nothing you’ve said so far falsifies it.Most cars don't cost 100k to produce.
You’re getting 400+ miles range on methanol?
That’s impressive.
How big is the tank?
Naw man...just making the point about the idiotic adoption of the highly polluting ethanol from corn, with Bob bought dog Dull foisted on us for his pals in the corn lobby.
Methanol burns clean, can be made from any cellulose base.
But uh, they can’t drive up the price on those things so no interest except in bourbon, corn distilled spirits. Ethanol pollutes terribly, and it is ruining gaskets and seals in small and large engines. Of course nascar would support this as it uh, drives up the cost of legal and illegal hooch in their uh... market demographic LOL.
High octane blend (yeah w/ ethanol and.... a blending of methanol that didn’t come from the pump works great.
Regular gas, sure 400 plus miles. Cruise at 65 hwy. 16 gal tank.
For this you need 100K plus pricetag. Utterly ridiculous— make a smart/dumb car like this then. Oh, that’s right, the batteries. You see— it doesn’t work just because you say it does.
Mussolini-think: “the trains run on time because I say they do,and so do the train workers who make sure the books say they do” LOL.
Guilty tech yuppies doing their bit for...”the environment”.
Yeah, right. 2.6 children, too (stay up all night reading Margaret Sanger?) California is a mental state.
Ja, Kraftwerk hat 1974 einen Riesenerfolg in den Hitparaden mit diesem Titel.
Right in there with Devo. Techno bump music. Not my thing really but mechanically sound. Vielen dank.
Sure— not anything from the north of them or any part of the grid. Don’t think so. Grid is shared/purchase usage. So, not true. And if it becomes true Cali will have even more problems than they already have.
Moving onto the next scam— biomass power plants. LOL!!
Here’s the data set I used.
Feel free to point out any errors.
http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_gen_1983-2012.xls
It’s a high end luxury car... And one with the best Consumer Reports review in history and the best safety test rating in history. If you can’t afford one then don’t buy it.
Comsumers Report-— now there’s a great source. The vulvo drivers. Safety in a can of obamaumao. They like obamauamaocare you know, and it is real safe, too.
No, it is not a “high end” luxury car. What crap. It is highly priced. Please don’t give me any of that Palm Beach Worth Avenue crap- if you have to ask you can’t afford it. Already own or owned many that are way beyond this farce.
That is the point. We ARE paying for this, and we can’t afford it. If YOU (and all of us) can’t subsidize it... they couldn’t be in business. Period. The article is a sheet of lies.
Der People’s Auto—only for those special “high end” neo-venture socialists, like Hitler’s revenge- from caulifloweronia.
Your first error starts with the ca.gov address. The land of fruits and nuts, and gubmint cpas with creative writing classes.
Feel free to supply better data sources.
The Wall St Journal says it’s about 0.6%
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323699704578328581251122150.html
As we used to say at work, without data you are just another manager with an opinion.
As we used to say at work, opinions are like data, and everyone’s data comes out of some a-hole manager justifying their job for yet another day.
Deo Vindice. Arrivederci minestrone al poopeta infinitum.
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