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RE: well
By boeush on 7/27/2012 4:49:43 PM , Rating: 2
Electric vehicles just can't work for enough people for Tesla to seriously make it big. Especially at those prices, as you've pointed out.
I don't suppose Porches or Lamborghinis work for enough people, either. Explains why they don't exist, don't it?
People don't want electric vehicles.

It's all about range (for some) and price point (for others.)

Tesla's starting to address the range. For me personally, 500 miles would be the threshold where I no longer consider range to be an issue. Looks like with Model S Tesla's about half-way there. The R&D needs to not only continue, but to accelerate. And I'm perfectly fine with the government at least sponsoring it, if not directly funding it. I'd go so far as to say it's a national security issue.

Price will inevitably come down over time, as volumes ramp up and competition comes in from the Chinese and other third-world slave economies with which we have stupidly/suicidally established "free trade" (a.k.a. "giant sucking sound") relations.

Regardless, electric vehicles are the future. Gasoline vehicles are doomed to go the way of the horse buggy. Do people still ride horses? Sure, as a hobby...
I think at this point, that's a fair and balanced observation.
Quoting FOX propaganda slogans is normatively symptomatic of a brain washed so clean, it might no longer evince a detectable mind.
Even the Volt, which eliminates range anxiety and has gotten TONS of hype and PR, has failed.
The Volt is a crappy design, and a crappy car. That's because it's a GM product, not because it's an electric hybrid. The Prius plug-in is now out, and Ford's C-Max is coming soon. Everything you're now saying about pure-electrics, tools like you used to say about hybrids. You were wrong then, and you are still wrong now.
End the subsidies, stop bailing out Tesla and the others with these absurd Crony "loans", and let's move on.
And let's also stop bailing out Wall Street. Let the whole financial system blow up and take us all out with it. It'll make us all feel better, assuming we survive the blast... Tongue only slightly in cheek.

I'm actually all for it, but unfortunately most of our nation has turned into a bunch of spoiled and frightened pussies. (Not that our finances won't blow up eventually regardless -- ala the PIIGS -- just as soon as the rest of the world has done blowing up. The math is what it is... Certain people have long wanted to drown government in a bathtub, and/or starve the beast; their multidecadal project will soon and finally bear fruit, except the beast is the 99%, and the ones drowning are the underwater "homeowners", the over-indebted students, and the working poor -- IOW, the newly reconstituted indentured servant class. (Unfortunately, starved beasts have a habit of becoming very dangerous, indeed... We might within the next decade or so experience a reprise of the early 20th-century revolutions. But I digress.)

RE: well
By sowhy on 7/29/2012 12:36:51 PM , Rating: 2
boeush - Great to see there are still a few forward thinkers on this planet. I will DEFINITELY buy one if they can get it to about 40k.

Investing in technology and manufacturing rather than Wallstreet is the way to go.

