Lots' of work to do before Electric Vehicle become mainstream

[RaleBulgarian]

Musk is a salesman. He's putting on a show. Heck, to his credit, he's got conservatives buying electric cars to influence social media. Buying an electric car to pwn social media should be a liberal thing. It's obviously a liberal thing. He's got conservatives doing it so I don't think we, mere mortals, should be questioning his salesmanship.

We'll find out what the company is worth after the ringmaster retires.

Musk is a good salesman and a visionary. He also has a world class ego that has gotten him in hot water with investors and the government.

 

[Sabre]

The cheapest Tesla is not an economy car. Tesla is a luxury brand.

You can get a Nissan Leaf for as little as 20 grand, brand new.

The 2022 model S, which is the cheapest model has a base price (msrp) of $27,400. The price you mention is after the Federal rebate. I bought a new 2018 Leaf and after all the rebates, Federal, state, other incentive rebates and a little bending from the dealer it ended up costing me $17,500. It was a good car, but I had some manufacturing problems with it, fortunately covered by warranty.

 

[Mason66]

Dunno. He said he would charge at nights and when he would stop for lunch, and it was not that hard to find charging stations.. He had a good time.

So he only drove like 5 hours a day?

 

[ataraxia]

So he only drove like 5 hours a day?

I think he told me one charge could take him around 400 miles. There are supercharging stations all over the country that can charge a Tesla in about an hour. Their locations all automatically show on the car’s GPS. That’s enough to catch a lunch or go to an attraction along the way while the car is charging.

I don’t know all the details, but he told me he had a good time and it really was not a big inconvenience.

 

[RealityNow]

Does anyone remember the little generator that one could flip against the wheel of a bicycle, that powered the lights on the bicycle. It's rotation did not take anything away from the pedalling speed one wanted to pedal.

Why let the wheels of a vehicle turn, have something like that built inside of the housing that use to house brake shoes (and make it a sealed housing), and still attach the disc brakes as they are normally attached. Then everytime the car is rolling it is producing some level of 'recharge %" back to the batteries.

I thought about this since the first introduction of electric vehicles. I still think at some point, they will figure it out and create it.