What if you're in a hurry, and can't wait 90 seconds?
Until they get these things ironed out, I won't buy an electric.
Wonder if the Insurance people are charging extra for these cr** cars. I want to hear the roar of the engine...it’s important.
I’m not buying an electric car any time soon either.
But its helpful to know the trends. These are very big growth rates.
These growth rates will cause the price of electric cars to come down and also the price of gas to come down.
This is a very very big deal.
In 5-10 years we are coming up on one of the very sweetest of sweet spots in world economic history.
I was reading in AutoWeek that Tesla plans enough 20-minute “supercharge” stations that soon you can drive NY-LA and charge all along the way.
Hoopty friggin’ do. And if a power outage crashes a station or two along the way? Motel 6 time.
$60,000 car...
...replacement batteries: $8,000 for the 40-kWh battery, $10,000 for the 60-kWh and $12,000 for the 85-kWh pack (160, 230, and 300 mile range capability) which Tesla sets out at 7 years/100,000 miles...
I’ll keep my truck. $100/week to fill up at the current Obama prices but I can still haul my stuff.
One start-up that also planned to offer battery swapping for electric vehicles, Better Place, recently filed for bankruptcy and halted its operations. Chowdhry said that company’s plans were based on the flawed assumption that all the different electric vehicles would use interchangeable batteries.
Actually THIS is the problem with electrics. Until you can pull into a station and get a generic battery swap what’s the point? All these electrics have proprietary battery systems.
A Tesla battery holds the energy equivalent of 1 gallon of gas. I can put 2 gallons in my car in well under 90 seconds and it only costs $7.
You can’t even change the battery in a Chevy Uplander in less than 60 minutes. Have to remove the fuse box and a fender to grill brace first.