I called it!
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hoew do they do in minus 20 with 3 inches or more snow on the ground , range wise ?? i'm sure it cuts range by 2/3 rds
harrisonm
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I'm not going to hit the hated "X" disagree button because I only partially disagree. I save the red X for really ridiculous comments, which yours is certainly not. I will agree that at least part of the people who buy electric cars are mind numbed tree huggers who think they are saving the planet, and they certainly do love THIER liberal media, and they are certainly ignoring anything that disagrees with their opinions. However a lot of them are not like that. I was at a Sunday morning Cruise in in Rogers Arkansas a few weeks ago on a Sunday morning. It was right next to a Krispy Kreme donut shop. GREAT LOCATION! I was surprised to see about 10 Teslas there all parked side by side. I really like Teslas. I would consider buying one if they weren't so expensive. I got into a very pleasant, long and fact filled discussion with several of the Tesla club members. They told me all about their cars and why they bought them. Most of them did it because they thought they were so darn cool, so fast and so much fun to drive. One guy said, "Watch this." He pulled out his cell phone and literally moved his car around with it. They all agreed that the convenience of using electricity was tainted slightly with cheap gas, but when it goes back up to $4.00 a gallon, the advantage will be greater. They all totally agreed that although the car may not emit any carbon, they knew that the production process and the electricity generation did. I asked how long the batteries lasted, and all of them said that nobody in the club had ever had to replace any batteries, and several cars were well over 100,000 miles with one having over 200,000. Overall, I think that electric cars are truly the future. Regardless of what anybody thinks, I like the idea of plugging a car into an outlet in my garage and being able to drive it in total comfort for several hundred miles.
Yeah and Al Gore said the internal combustion engine would be banned in 25 years, in a book he wrote in 1992! Whoops, he was wrong. See that's a problem when you make short term predictions and they don't come to be, you look like a(bigger) idiot than you are. See now I predict the end of the world in 2084. Just as George Orwell's 1984, and who died in 1950, so will I be dead.
I guess I'm seeing the other side.
Removing what's likely about a 15 to 13 second quarter mile in a 3800 pound car power plant that may also be the source of frustration and time lost to troubleshooting and likely gets about 15 MPG, with an ultra efficient and ultra durable system that can easily do a 13 second if not faster 1/4 mile with no adverse affects whatsoever to routine daily driving.
In case people are not aware, other forms of electric motor driven vehicles such as trolleys, and train locomotives routinely reuse the electric motor portion of their power and drive systems, sometimes even for several decades, while the other portions of those systems, namely the diesel/gas engine get replaced.
Don;t get me wrong, I LOVE driving my 318 powered 1973 vehicle.
...but if I wanted a 12 second car that costs less to operate (barring current battery replacement), I'd be hard pressed to do that staying with gasoline technology.
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