Now if I just had the $70K...

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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    hedonist wrote:
    Ah, but who pays for that credit? Me, Ms. Taxpayer, who can't afford to spend 70K on a car ;)

    you're paying that money one way or another in corporate welfare to big auto and the oil companies ... they just don't make it so obvious ...

    plus driving an electric car is in many ways a societal benefit ...
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    pjl44 wrote:
    g under p wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Sweet looking car and it's electric! However, if I ever had that kind of money, a car is not what I'd buy. I'd start completing my bucket list.

    I wonder if this car was named after the inventor Nikola Tesla?

    Peace

    Nah...probably the band.

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    The hard rock band got its start in Sacramento, California in the early eighties. The original name of the band was Earth Shaker, then City Kidd. They changed their name to Tesla after one of their managers lent them Man Out of Time, a book about inventor Nikola Tesla, the overlooked electricity and radio pioneer. In 1990 the band tried to convince the Smithsonian Institute to accept and display a bust of their namesake, but the Smithsonain declined the offer.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/tesla-w ... -come-from

    It all comes back to my man Nikola Tesla yeah the Smithsonain always preferred Thomas Edison.

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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,580
    g under p wrote:
    The hard rock band got its start in Sacramento, California in the early eighties. The original name of the band was Earth Shaker, then City Kidd. They changed their name to Tesla after one of their managers lent them Man Out of Time, a book about inventor Nikola Tesla, the overlooked electricity and radio pioneer. In 1990 the band tried to convince the Smithsonian Institute to accept and display a bust of their namesake, but the Smithsonain declined the offer.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/tesla-w ... -come-from

    It all comes back to my man Nikola Tesla yeah the Smithsonain always preferred Thomas Edison.

    Peace

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zwBRa0YhA
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    How would you charge it though? If it needs 12 hours to charge they'd need to open dedicated garages just with charging stations for these things, no? In cities, I mean, where people don't have garages with electricity attached to their home.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,080
    duska3419 wrote:
    How would you charge it though? If it needs 12 hours to charge they'd need to open dedicated garages just with charging stations for these things, no? In cities, I mean, where people don't have garages with electricity attached to their home.

    Outside of dedicated garages. In Seattle we have parking spaces that a solely for electric cars that come with charging stations. There are also tax incentives for businesses to have charging stations in their parking lots.
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    mookeywrench wrote:
    duska3419 wrote:
    How would you charge it though? If it needs 12 hours to charge they'd need to open dedicated garages just with charging stations for these things, no? In cities, I mean, where people don't have garages with electricity attached to their home.

    Outside of dedicated garages. In Seattle we have parking spaces that a solely for electric cars that come with charging stations. There are also tax incentives for businesses to have charging stations in their parking lots.

    I dont know anything about seattle, so i can't really compare. But i'm trying to imagine how this would work where i live. If there were a parking lot that had special spaces for these cars to charge... then someone who owned one would have to drive it there and leave it there and then either get a cab or the train home? otherwise there would have be a ton of those garages around. plus you'd have to pay to park the car there?

    I really really really wanna like the Tesla, I'm just struggling with the practicality of it.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    The GOP in North Carolina has blocked Tesla from selling cars in that state.

    :crazy:

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    The state Senate unanimously passed a bill Monday night that would block Tesla's plan for selling its cars directly to consumers — forcing it to either steer clear of the entire state or use a franchised auto dealer like all other automakers.


    The Republican-sponsored bill, which has the backing of the North Carolina Auto Dealers Association, mirrors fights in several other states by dealers who worry about the precedent set by Tesla — even though Tesla's own projected output of 20,000 vehicles a year is a rounding error on the 15 million new vehicles sold by U.S. dealers annually. Dealers in New York and Massachusetts have gone to court in attempts to block Tesla; in Texas, the automaker has been pushing its own bill that would loosen restrictions which limit its sales pitches to phone conversations.

    http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/auto-dealers-push-law-blocking-tesla-sales-north-194223800.html
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    tesla just introduced battery swapping at charging stations ... 93 seconds to swap out ... costs about the same as a fill up if you want the convenience every now and then ...

    also to reiterate ... tesla's model s received a 99 out of a 100 in consumer reports ... also, they just guaranteed resale value for the car at the same level of the highest resale value of luxury sedans ... used to be benchmarked to mercedes but now they will benchmark to the car rated highest ...
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,516
    Wish I had bought some Tesla stock when that CR review came out. As of this morning the stock is up almost $50 since then

    Elon Musk is a smart businessman so need to keep an eye on whatever he does

    On another note I was out this past Sunday for a 4 hr 70+ mile bike ride and in the first hour I saw 3 Tesla S in 3 different colors and later on 2 different Tesla Roadsters. But the real highlight of the day was seeing 2 different Shelby Cobras out on the road!!

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