Posted on 08/02/2014 8:24:47 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Yes. Kudos to Edmunds.
There’s massive disinformation about the reality of dealing with a Tesla, including cost and range.
It’s nifty technology but just a rich man’s toy.
If you want a gorgeous, fast, status symbol that has problems, get a nice Jaguar. The look great on the back of a truck too. And a lot of owners consider their trouble-prone experience with them absolutely worth it.
“Now that’s funny ,, spend $100k and you could walk the distance before the charging is done. I can easily see you taking the Tesla out for dinner and not getting a full charge for the trip to the office the next morning simply because you came home late ... then you , Mr. CEO ,, have to borrow the maids Nissan Versa to get to the office...”
LOL - good point. Now that would make a GREAT VIDEO - a person walking with a Tesla following him and its 120V power cord on a mast plugged into a fake outlet. Then the guy speeds up (just walks a bit faster) and the Tesla is left in the dust. By the way, a typical gasoline car fills up at about the speed of an SR71 (i.e., 300 miles in 5 minutes).
I remembered that number from the blog, and it does make sense. If you plug into a 120V receptacle the most you can draw is about 1500W. Then you have to convert that to how much energy is stored in the battery - you get about 1kW. An 85 kWH battery is good for 200 miles, although you probably only to use about 70 kWH from it, so about 3 miles per kWH.
By the way they could provide multiple 120V inputs, but you’d have to plug each into a different 120V circuit and doubt ANY Tesla owner has enough brains to figure out how to identify receptacles on different circuits...so they had to play it safe and only provide one input.
I wouldn't mind that if it was just the rich paying for it, but that "battery swap" scam let Tesla fraudulently collect millions in government subsidies. Why should the taxpayers be subsidizing toys for the rich?
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