zetec7 wrote:
I like the idea, but around here (with among the highest electricity prices in the world...despite having vastly more available than we can ever use), I'm not sure there'd be any savings.
It's not about fuel cost savings in this case, it's about the incredible drivability, massive low down torque, no gears, just turbine like solid drive all the way to top speed. I left a hot Audi A4 standing today in a race from the traffic lights in my cheapo Chinese JAC 100HP equivalent - glad we had to slow for the next set or he would have blown by me after say 200 yards!
Then there's the absolute dead silence when you are stopped, and no engine vibrations at all.
Like the idea or not, I encourage every driving enthusiast to try and get your hands on an electric car and go for a hard drive, any of them, Tesla at the top of the list of course. When we got the Tesla it was 2 votes to my 1 being against it, now I barely believe my own fanaticism for them based on my previous extremely cynical position. I will never buy another gasoline car if circumstance permits.
zetec7 wrote:
'Course, we really don't have the infrastructure (charging stations, etc.) to deal with anything less than a Tesla, unless your commute is very short (which mine isn't).
Wow, must be some distance to work?
I only look for and use a 'medium' or 'super' charger when travelling long distance, 90% of all mileage is done via charge from home or factory wall socket (seen in video above).
Today we left home in the JAC with 70%, arrived out in the sticks with 20% left, plugged into a caravan park's wall socket, did our things and 3 hours later had 50% to drive home (90 kms/55 miles) arriving with 10% left (I drove slower). The JAC only has 200/120 mile range compared with the Tesla's 500/275 mile range. If I could just get the Daughter out of it ....
But then the JAC was sub $15,000.
zetec7 wrote:
What I'd REALLY like to see is for Tesla to make a car with the kind of range they have now, only in the price range of, say, a Honda or Mazda. If they did that, the masses would pound a path to their door...
You are not aware of the Tesla 3?
Then there's another possible angle, some people in some countries or states, will wake up one morning and find that due to current climate change factors, that you will no longer be able to drive your gasoline powered homebuilt.