Posted on 10/17/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A global tipping point for electric cars could come as early as 2022, as battery costs decrease and concerns about range and infrastructure ease. That’s from analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who in a little over a year’s time have turned even more optimistic about the future dominance of electric cars over internal-combustion vehicles. In a Tuesday note, the analysts forecast that one in three cars will be purely electric by 2030; their July 2016 prediction was one in 10 by the same year. “There are several factors converging that have led us to revise our thinking — a combination of changing customer preferences, increasingly viable product, regulation, and infrastructure,” they said in the note.
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Tesla is a family sedan dummy.
People dabbling in bad technology will leave more gasoline for people like me that need real transportation. By all means buy your toy.
Leasing. Don’t want to buy it out right.
60 miles per gallon?
GM is committed to electric cars. The science will not recharge the battery that fast.
Teslas are poor investments. Not “high performance production cars” as you claim them to be.
The only people singing their praises are those foolish enough to buy them.
Dummy.
No hybrid
So did your Tesla X cost under $25 grand like my Nissan truck that's maxed out with options and leather interior, including trailer hitch? Gasoline cars are king when it comes to multiple factors like ease of refueling, hauling, range... and cost. Electric cars are failures at that combination, and will be for some years to come!
“I m told it can’t sustain that speed to compete in long race.”
It’s a family sedan not a race car. Even high performance street sports cars cannot endure a long race.
I have thankfully, had no experience with hurricanes, other than a hockey team (Lethbridge Hurricanes). In this neck of the woods, I am unaware of any gasoline pumps having separate, dedicated electrical supplies.
Having worked for a large power generator, I know that my former employer runs the designated ‘black start’ plant in the Province. A ‘black start’ is where power is out across the Province and the tie lines to other jurisdictions are down. Many different sorts of buildings and plants do have emergency UPS but batteries can drain fairly quickly, so the grid has to be re-energized quickly.
A natural gas fired turbo-generator is started using compressed air and an enormous DC powered compressor. This provides plant power to operate a hydro plant. Electricity is then provided through tie lines to energize internal power at other plants, to allow be their start up. Of course the whole process cannot be tested, though portions are isolated and tested. Everything seems to work fine.
“Not “high performance production cars” as you claim them to be.”
A production family sedan and crossover that do 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds are not high performance?
LMOA!
I’m talking about the Indy 500 here, not street racing. The Tesla throws you back in your seat. It’s amazingly fast. ONce an electric car competes in professional racing and wins, then electric cars will be here to stay.
I once had a 56 Chevy Truck I paid $100 that I hauled with.
And you paid $25k?
Dunno about 1-3 lifetimes for the transition. I’ve seen multiple major industries do enormous pivots in just a few years.
Typewriters -> personal/laptop computers
Letters & fax -> email
Film cameras -> digital cameras
Wired phones -> wireless pocket supercomputers
HUGE shifts in public activities.
Yes, the shift should not be forced via gov’t. Let it happen naturally - and it _will_ happen, and it will do so with startling speed.
I’ve heard comparable complaints levied at all those changes above. “Digital will never have the resolution/color-depth of film.” “You can’t fill out preprinted forms on computers.” “Nothing official could ever happen via email.” “Phones could never get pocket sized, the batteries & transmitter would be too big.” All driven by businesses “too big to fail”. But then early adopters go “holy $#!^ this stuff is amazing” and everybody else catches on, with the entire market pivoting within 5 years.
“Teslas are poor investments”
Very few cars are good investments!
Go look up FIA Formula E racing: http://www.fiaformulae.com/en
Your New Age zeal (fanaticism?) for electric golf carts is fascinating, but your comment above shows you do do not know what you are talking about.
They cannot sustain that speed in an INDY 500 race.
“get us out of cars altogether”
Not gonna happen. May be a communist’s wet dream, but independent vehicles constitute the essence of American culture. Our demographics, geography, lifestyle, buildings, etc are all entirely built on the ability to travel hundreds of miles on short notice without consenting to public transport. Some may be devoted to scrapping it all for dense urban living, but that’s just not gonna happen here.
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