[ckilmer]

That will be great with lithium-ion batteries for areas with year-round temperatures between 14 and 86, Fahrenheit or with needed additional equipment. Chinese battery charging, heating and cooling equipment investments should do very well.
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True for now. I would not want to be driving a Tesla in the Rockies during the winter. Likely that’s why the Tesla plant is in Balmy California. Still, there is a huge section of the USA that has year round temperatures between 14 & 86 degrees. When a decent percentage of their driving public switches to electric cars—the price of gasoline all over the country — including the cold places goes down.

I don’t follow closely the battery/solar/electric car companies so I wouldn’t be comfortable investing in them. Still anyone can see from a distance that a lot of these companies stock prices are rising including Tesla. Tesla for its part just signed an agreement with Panasonic a Japanese company to get financing from them for 200 million dollars for the construction of a new battery plant which promises to bring down the cost of Teslas. The plant’s total costs are said to be in the 5 billion dollar range. I don’t know where the rest of Tesla’s financing is going to come from.

[familyop]

"Likely that’s why the Tesla plant is in Balmy California. Still, there is a huge section of the USA that has year round temperatures between 14 & 86 degrees. When a decent percentage of their driving public switches to electric cars—the price of gasoline all over the country — including the cold places goes down."

Very true. If I were in a flatter, more temperate place, I'd surely consider it. Up here, individuals could go to natural gas where available (outside of the more intense NIMBY areas, where natural gas drilling and pipelines have been prohibited or encumbered), wood/waste gasification or other choices to lower costs, if such builds and rebuilds become all that necessary (agriculture, steel work and racing in my past).