I practically creamed my pants looking at that body. God damn, if that were a woman, I'd hit it!
Ok, in all seriousness, this was the proper route to go. Tesla does not have the capability to mass produce. That would take $200+ million in machine tools and crash tests. Only the major automakers have that money(as we know, the major automakers refuse to mass produce electric cars).
No one is going to pay $80k for a 5-seater family car that does 0-60 in 9 seconds, when they can buy a Corolla for $15k, even if that $80k car were electric.
Will they pay $80k for a 2-seater supercar that does 0-60 mph in 4 seconds? Yes.
Tesla has the right strategy.
The technology is there to mass produce an electric car with 200+ miles range, 0-60 mph in < 9 seconds, 110 mph top speed, and ability to seat 5 adults. It's been there for a decade. BUT, that requires mass production. The big automakers are the only ones who can mass produce, and they refuse to make electric cars. Period. Tesla motors cannot yet mass produce. They would do it if they had the economies of scale, believe me. So would AC Propulsion, Commuter Cars, and others.
Same range as many gas cars, really.
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80-100k ???
holy shnikees
you know how much f'in gas that is...???
hmm
my car is say $3000
a difference of about $87k
thats 29,000 gallons at $3.00/gal
even at 30mpg thats 870,000 miles !!!!!!!
PAAAAALEEEEEEZEEE!!!
thats so uncool
thats stupid
i'd shoot anyone i see driving one
f'in idiot
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a) It's a sports car, not a family car or errand runner. It's not made to save money.
b) That gas car is ~$.03-.08/mile in maintenance depending on what it is(Hondas and Toyotas at the lower end, Ford or GM at the upper). Even factoring in the battery pack, this car is certainly cheaper to run than a Corvette or similar sports car.
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If you want a $10k electric car, there's always the Zap Zebra in the US, or the REVA in England.
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**** that. $10k for a hand-built golf cart?
If you want an eelctric car for $10k, build it. You could get much better results that way, 0-60 mph ~5-6 seconds, 130+ top speed, and 60-80+ miles range is doable for that amount of money. But only if you build it yourself.
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Just wait until alot of people start pluging in and the grid go's down.
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Most charging is going to be done when the car is not in use, usually at night. When the grid is not seeing peak use, it tends to have 40-60% of capacity freed up. We could handle many tens of millions of pure electric cars charging during those times without a problem.
As to the amount of electricity consumed, according to the CIA World Fact Book, the U.S. consumes about 3.7*10^12 kWh of electricity per year from the outlet. A midsize electric car sized and shaped like a Ford Taurus or a small SUV like a RAV4, with no attention to aerodynamic efficiency, will use about .3 kWh per mile from the batteries, about .4 kWh/mile from the outlet. Typical car in America sees 12,000 miles/year of use. America has 220 million cars.
Do a little number crunching on how much electricity consumption would go up if all cars were electric.
With a grid that often has lots of available capacity during off peak, wouldn't even make a dent.
Now recrunch the numbers for a full size EV with low drag coefficient around .16, say, sized like a Ford Crown Vic and needing .2 kWh/mile from the outlet, or .15 kWh/mile from the batteries.
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