Posted on 08/04/2017 3:46:40 AM PDT by SMGFan
Agreed. More people are realizing that besides the battery mess; if they follow the trail of delivery of the electricity that charges their batteries back to its source, they discover that in many cases, their wonderful “green” cars are actually powered by coal.
“they discover that in many cases, their wonderful “green” cars are actually powered by coal”
Yep, that’s why I like hydrogen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdL2YS5dCQ
As for the 60kwh versus the 85 kwh, even with the $10,000 upcharge for the 85kwh, it is the cheapest if you calculate as miles of range per dollar of cost.
I'm curious, do you live in a home with 110 power? If you have only 110 you can buy 110 wall units to air condition your home but if you want Central you need to bring in more service. I have a hard time seeing people who live in a 110 home as being potential Tesla buyers
I find it difficult to take seriously any CEO named after an after-shave lotion.
I know one liberal with an electric car who parks there, but surprisingly he only charges at home. He's somewhat of a rarity, a non-hypocrite. The rest are in it for the subsidies and the virtue of ignoring the environment-destroying lithium and rare earth mining practices. Tesla in particular is very damaging to the environment preferring zero to 60 in 2.3 seconds than practical functionality.
Regardless of power supply, where’s it coming from again? :)
I don’t understand question.
All that electricity is coming from somewhere right? Where I live it originates at a COAl fired generating plant.
Places running out of plug-ins in streets and gas stations, etc. So what happens when four or five show up with only two plug-ins available and it’s a several hour charge; or you’re in a city and just about to run out of a charge and you spot a connection point only to find out it was vandalized and you’re in a shaky neighborhood.
Not all of them. Some are powered by < gasp! > nuclear reactors!
The price of all this stuff keeps falling. Solar panels, wind turbines, lithium batteries.
There are still a few coal power plants Texas but they are all losing money and cant compete with Nat gas and renewables. They will be gone in a few years. In Texas and California the price of electricity is tied to the price of nat gas.
Classic American Muscle beats it every time, but those old beauties had their own problems of course.
The car price is one thing but the cost of the extension cord is another!
They blew the nose. It looks more like a fish face. Good selling cars usually have good face looking attributes.
Yep. I have no problem with either; but THEY do.
Those people suddenly realized that the Tesla was nothing more than a coal-powered car. Coulda’ bought one of those in the 1910’s.
***All the “interesting parts” were airbrushed out ***
I saw a “collector’s magazine” on the first Streakers like that. What a joke.
electricity is cheap here (NE Fla.) for now at least.
There’s more to a car purchase than just gas savings.
If you haven’t at least tried what you’re railing against, you’re missing the point.
The driving performance is excellent. Amazing acceleration, great traction control, instant response (no shifting delays), and the silence is deafening.
Safety is big. Among other things, crumple zones are huge (having almost nothing resembling an engine block).
Attention to detail costs money.
Bashing Teslas for not being the perfectly cheapest option is stupid.
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