Posted on 02/12/2013 9:29:15 AM PST by jazusamo
I missed that thread, what a hoot.
I didn’t realize Musk made so little money, $33,000 a year is practically living in poverty. LOL!
I wish I could find the other two segments of that.
When his battery went dead in the library he had to start the gas motor and drive out with it sounding like a chainsaw.
The interview with potential investors was pretty good too.
“If we could staff the factory with children, that would be brilliant”
Top Gear made their own electric car and it didn’t cost taxpayers anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzAuX4T83Y
Yeah, it was a blast.
And the true believer in the trhead just couldn’t understand what the issue was.
“Elon Musk is worth 2 billions!!!” -imagine that said in squishy spittle flying voice.
“Then why does he need taxpayer money to fund his car?” -everyone else in thread.
This is what conservatives are up against, especially when the subject happens to be green fanatasies.
People have been indoctrinated since the early 80’s about green fantasy ideas.
Solar power has been “achieving parity in the next ten years” since the 70’s.
Electric cars have been messed with near forever with very little to show for it.
Heck, turbine powered cars looked promising but were killed off with little to show for the research done.
Being able to run on vodka and vegetable oil was a scary idea to some people.
Actually, the NY Times article about the performance of LiIon batteries is fairly accurate.
They perform as advertised when their temperature stays above 70F and below 120F. When you take them outside this range, they suffer serious performance loss.
If you get them too cold, they won't charge and they won't discharge, as Broder found out with his winter test-drive.
If you get them too hot they will vent and if you get them really hot, they'll burst into flames, as Boeing found out with the 787.
She’s a drug dealer.
(rep for Eli Lilly)
If I was a Dr., I’d DEFINITELY want to listen to her pitch, LOL
I just can't believe the cobalt type LiIon was approved for use in the 787 but they were. The cobalt type is the more dangerous type from what I've read but I wouldn't think any type of large capacity LiIon should be used in airliners.
Speaking of fair weather electrics, I’m wondering how my local Little Miss Adventure is doing with her black Chebby Volt right now.
Or if she’s wrecked out somewhere due to her passion for holding her cellphone to her left ear with her right hand, arm cocked over her nose while driving down the centerline.
Our recent spate of cold here couldn’t have been good for her Volt.
I know, it’s a [poorly designed] hybrid.
She probably had to use far more gasoline than normal.
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