Will we all be driving Tesla soon?
 

I probably won't....but I found this interesting.

Tesla Model S beats Porsche 911 in 0-60mph record - Business Insider

Pretty sure you can't drive the tesla very far after doing that once :)

Driving a car that feels & sound like an "Electric Wheelchair". Was that a serious question OP?

If my wife has her way, we'll all be eating grass and driving Teslas! :rolleyes:

I've driven a Model S. Not too bad, but feels unconnected to the street, especially if you compare it to european cars. Acceleration is great. But the rest - i don't know. Driving cars and having fun while doing it is more than acceleration in a straight line.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards, Markus

On a 'green'er' tone; I'd rather walk or ride my traditional Chinese bicycle than sitting on a high power battery pack + hearing the humming sound of a wheelchair. There ;)

Dunno if you guys tried that car but the deceleration trows you in the windshield almost. It is something....

I love my golf cart. Its the most reliable vehicle I own. I would drive it to work if allowed to (I don't want to install turn signals and seat belts).

I absolutely plan to consider a Tesla or some other form of electric vehicle in the future. Doesn't mean I'd sell my current cars, just that I like the S and think I'll like the 3. Not a big fan of the X.

My brother became a Porsche nut because of me and now has three in his current stable. Several months ago on one if his Christophorus issue he saw an article about Porsche mission E. and he sent me a text asking if I knew about it. My response "yes". Electric cars are nice but missing several things I like about cars. The connection when driving them. I went on to say "it's like making love to a woman and all she does is lay there". No connection. My other brother cracked up laughing and the yogic never came up again.

I wasn't there, but I heard from someone that was that there was a Tesla at the NNJR PCA HPDE at Watkins Glen last July. It could only do 3 laps or the 3.4 mile 11 turn track at the Glen and then it went into limp-home slow mode, had to come in and cool down. So there's that in addition to its limited range and relatively long recharge time.

I wouldn't rate the quality of a vehicle on a 2.3 second drive.

RE: Tesla Model S beats Porsche 911 in 0-60mph record - Business Insider

I understand that there's quite a process involved in getting the car ready to do a 0 to 60 run especially if you want to do it twice in a row. The 911 turbo will do it back to back to back in a short period of time without a complaint plus leaving it in the dust after the quarter mile.

The single trick is cool but everything else is a bit of a turn off to me.

Not Tesla's, but maybe Bolt's!

I test drove a Chevy Bolt a couple of weeks ago. The car was great and I couldn't find a single thing to complain about. It handled well, had excellent acceleration, good brakes, felt solid, and the interior was quite nice.

Not too sure about eating grass, but with 230 miles of range and a sticker price of $29,900, a lot of people will likely buy this car.

Hmmm, with a base starting price at $68k, I doubt it.

I am scared of eCars (especially on parking ramps)...you just don't hear them coming...SCARY :eek:

For German drivers a not SOOO unimportant fact is:
TOP SPEED
Tesla S = 120mph ....REALLY :confused:
That excludes you from using the left line lane on the Autobahn :D

But honestly...Tesla is quite cool

This got to stop
 

When global major power plants will fully make efficient use of wind and solar energy, only then I'll start looking into the electric powered vehicles. Until then, I am certainly not going to contribute in changing a problem-into-another at the profit of a simple "tech trend" and to potentially have the IC engines slowly being exterminated.

These electric cars are a scam as of now and are as good as the electricity powering them. Meaning additional carbons and methane to your air. Not mentioning about the extracting environmental damages and heavy pollutants needed for processing rare metals e.g. lithium and other metals to mfg magnets, boards, etc. I pass so many others.

What did you fix?! NOTHING. You have just killed the IC engine and making tech giant richer, that's all.

GREEN?! You got to be f n joking me. Can't believe some of you guys are supporting this "GOV sponsored" industry. Wake up

Go GO Coal Mines Go. That's what we have here in China and can't f n breath already. Can't imagine what it would be if the electric car would suddenly become the norm.

You want to do something green (smart)? Sign petitions to get atomic energy less restricted by your lovely agencies and governments. You'll have your cars rolling for 40+ years without re-fueling.

Yeah, about that less restricted atomic energy..

Fukushima's radiation reaches 'unimaginable' levels - 9news.com.au

I always found the Tesla to be pretty neat, but in it's own way. It certainly wouldn't replace my Boxster!

Electric cars; feeling like heading back to what it was in the 1970's in all honesty. The Golf Karts!

Don't like radiation and heavy chemical waste from your 'smart' EV Car Tech industries? Sure, me neither. just heat water with a laser then (if you can get your gov's funded Energy Agency to allow you to own only 10grams of thorium, of course!). Fear 25+ years in jail if you dare to try!

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The Future for your kids ;)
 

2017 Ladies and Gent and still doing the whole same!

EV Cars, so smart. But hey, I agree that those tech giants are masters at making them look good in those showrooms lolll Love the iPAD dash style those tesla comes with.

Go Go Green Go :cheers:

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ps: not flaming you dghii, just taking this old school 1970's perfect example to prove my point - of the future.

Fukushima - let's see if this makes sense. We design a nuclear reactor 20 years after the first one is created in Chicago. We don't update it or incorporate it for any new safety features that are developed in the next 50 years and then wonder what happened when it failed. That's like driving a 1910s car in the 1960s and wondering why it doesn't perform the same. There has been a lot of knowledge gained in the last 60 years - why don't we use it? Thank you Greenpeace et al.

Regarding Telsas - I drove my neighbor's - I liked it. I considered buying one but I got the opportunity to buy a 2016 991 GTS Club Coupe. Guess which one I bought. Regarding regenerative braking - according to my neighbor it is adjustable - you can program how invasive you want it to be. BTW, in the mid-80s I drove an electric car down the expressway at 70mph. That person's car was a design project for himself and a major Japanese automaker. It's all a matter of batteries. Mark

Well the technology has improved for nuclear power but like anything designed by humans there are compromises. The controls, redundancies and safety features are all designed by humans who try to answer the "what if" question. We've come a long way since the "unsinkable" Titanic, where no one asked what if more than x watertight compartments were breached, but there are still things we haven't thought of. In the case of Fukushima I don't know if the "what if" a huge earthquake is followed by a total power outage and a huge tsunami question was thought through. (A slightly bigger issue than what if the seals fail on this IMSB, oil washes all the grease out and then the bearing fails?)

I would love to see more modern nuclear power built, but would like to see these 3 issues addressed-

1. Elimination of the Price Andersen Act which is the only way owners of nuclear power plants can obtain liability insurance.

2.Require the owners of retired nuclear power plants to use their decommissioning funds to fully demolish and remediate the power plant sites.

3. Establish permanent storage facilities for all spent nuclear fuel and contaminated materials, which has never been done since the dawn of the nuclear age.

In a word, no. There are a few reasons behind this and i'll be short with them.

I live in London where my car lives on the street. We don't have set parking spaces so it's a free for all when parking on an evening. So how am i supposed to plug in, and if i do what's to stop someone just pulling the plug out?
Also the pathetic charge to mileage ratio. The Grand Tour illustrated this perfectly the other day when James May drove his I3 to Devon following Jeremy in his standard Golf. James stopped at 2 charging stations to find them out of service and when he did find one he was there for an hour while it got some charge back. You want to take an electric car across europe, that would take monumental planning!!!!!!
Also the Bmw still has petrol in it to power it's back-up generator.

And as someone rightly pointed out that the more we buy into this bull**************** the more drain on fossil fuels there is through the back door, pretty simple really.

We've seen the future in the Honda Clarity, that's the direction we need to head in. We really do need to stop buying into the electric bull**************** (Californians, i'm looking at you and your bloody Prius. A car proven to be more damaging to the environment due to it's manufacture process) and actually make a viable answer to a petrol substitute.