Maybe an electric car doesn’t work for you. My miata couldn’t pull my boat. What doesn’t work is driving near the range of the car, charging up in less than an hour, and driving back, so yep, maybe an electric car doesn’t work for you. Some brands were giving out a number of gas car rentals with purchase (i3). If you…

They have clear license terms, they can’t revoke it I believe. You basically just have to agree not to sue them on patent grounds. The real reason other companies don’t use tesla chargers is they think they’ll get some proprietary advantage, eventually, and embarrassment.

Good idea. Every big truck stop should have some chargers to go along with their parked trucks. There are chargers all over the us (see plugshare.com and you can see what’s in your local area). It’s true if you are not around a city, there won’t be much. An electric car is not nearly as practical if you live in a…

100kwh is a lot of energy, but a gallon of gas has 33.6kwh in it, so your 100kwh battery has as much energy as 3 gallons of gas - that gives you a sense of how much more efficient electric motors are once its inside the battery in your car.

It’s easy to calculate - you can think in terms of kw added to the battery or the much easier miles of range per unit of time added. You can add about 3.5 miles of range per hour on 120v. My model S has about 270 miles, so 77 hours. I have an 85 kw battery, plus there is some loss when charging, say 20% to make it…

Tesla is both the best technically available (in terms of how many systems it can connect to, and also the only system with significant numbers of superchargers available (teslas can use chademo with an optional adapter, but chademo usually maxes out at less than 50kw and there aren’t many of them). Porsche has…

Individual teslas are profitable. But Tesla has to spend a lot of money on infrastructure, like adding new plants, designing and build electric cars (of course you design ice cars but there’s no so much new ground, even if there is significant investment in various things), building out their sales locations, and the…

come on guys, liking something obama did doesn’t mean you have to love him.

Just because someone disagrees with you on cash for clunkers doesn’t make them a sycophant. Or even sick.

The people who voted for a 3rd party candidate deserve this. Idiots, remember what 2000 got us from Florida 3rd party candidate, bush 2.

I don’t think anyone is saying the dems are infallable. They have their problems. The dems don’t put an idiot who doesn’t believe in science in charge of a science committee. That is the difference, the republicans do.

Yes, the dems have some idiots, but they aren’t actively campaigning against scientific results. They don’t have a “the earth is 8000 years old” person on the house science committees. I believe the person in charge of nasa says things like that, he’s a republican. That’s the difference between the parties. Dems wants…

That was a nice explanation. I had the same reaction of how is this connected to the “real world”. My reaction was (1) those look like costumes out of star trek or star wars, (2) I really like the piano and harp accompaniment. Also, why am I forever in the greys, or is that grays?

Excellent point, but she’s even more culpable that you say. At the republican convention, her speech described things her father stands for that the republican party is opposed to - she could have been speaking in favor of HRC, things like child care, treatment of women. She must understand that her party is opposed…

Whatever the reason, I loved 3 body, and I’m stuck about 100 pages into the sequel. I just don’t enjoy it. And I’m in the greys :-(

That is awesome. Now tell me, Tosca, am I supposed to hate this because she’s a typical 21 year old woman, instead of that scientist.

Hit pieces on electric cars specifically. They are impossible, they are more destructive than gas cars to the environment, there are all kinds of crazy things going on there.

people die all the time in car accidents, 30k a year, sadly. The issue is did this weeks 100s of people dying in gm cars hurt their stock price? Probably not, it was not material. Based on stock movement, it appears not to be material at this time.

The Tesla model S is an outright awesome car. There is no doubt of that. Yea, I own one, and I don’t own Tesla stock. I don’t work for Tesla. And we know that the conservative industrial complex (ie the koch brothers) are trying to stop electric car success, apparently because (a) they think it somehow encourages…

The Schuyler sisters present! Love your account name.