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Tesla is announcing some new battery technology on Tuesday, 9/22. It might change some fence-sitter minds.

Buy Teslas! 20% of my portfolio is TSLA.

I've said many times that if electric vehicles are going to be viable for the masses the car companies will have to standardize the dimensions and

capacities of the batteries so that they can be exchanged at fuel stations.

All the tests I've seen are at freezing or 0 deg and they don't look good.
In a lot of places one doesn't see zero for months. I want to see a extended test done at the auto test track in International Falls. Let's see what it can do at -20.

Well no I wasn't. I was concerned about what might happen when the Left tells Biden to legislate normal cars out of existence.

Seat heaters?????


Bwahahahaha

All my vehicles have a seat heater........................It's right here behind me all day, every day.............serves as padding when I sit down too.

Once the upholstery gets warmed up from my built in seat heater, as long as I'm sitting in the vehicle my seats stay warm.

How would Joe Biden be able to do that?

My brother just bought a Tesla yesterday. I think it is a "Y" at any rate, it cost $63,000.
Today we drove it 201 miles and it was just about "out of gas." It read 9 percent battery left when we stopped. And that was with very little A/C.

For charging, I just wired up a 220 dryer plug in his carport. So we bought this receptacle at Lowes for $15 and I wired it up. You can get a complete charge in 13 hours.
If you just plug it in to a regular 110 outlet it would take two days for a complete recharge.

We are disappointed with the cruising range, he was told it would go 300 miles. On a trip, with the A/C, you would need to stop and recharge every 200 miles.

You better put a 50 foot construction grade extention cord in the trunk because you might get low on battery some time, you might need to pull into some Corner Pantry and see if you can plug in and get a recharge.
On the 110 you get 4 miles worth of driving juice in one hour of charging.

Oh yes, my brother bought about $6K in Tesla stock 6 months ago, and he has made about $10K profit on it thus far.
I am not going to buy a Tesla but I think I will buy $10K in Tesla stock.

I will say that I never have seen a car dealership as busy as Tesla in Charlotte. They are selling 'em faster than they can make them.
Put down a deposit now and wait 2 months for delivery. We saw, in one hour, four other new customers showing up to pick up their new Teslas.

This dealership would have had no new cars for sale on the floor. Zero. Except, a guy put a down payment on one of those "gull wing" Teslas that cost $110K.
Before it was delivered, he changed his mind and bought a different model. So Charlotte went ahead and accepted delivery of this gull wing car. They put it out front yesterday.
The salesman was opening and closing the gull wing doors for me, it was pretty cool reminded me of a DeLorean.
They just put that car out on the floor and I bet it won't last long.

"maybe 220 miles on a good day"

No thanks. Everywhere I want to go (round trip) is farther than 220 miles). Everywhere I drive to on vacation is farther than that one way.

I am not fond of the things, every time I get in a car with heated seats I think I done peed myself.....

Now, AIR CONDITIONED seats? Yes, please! No more swamp arse!




Not for a long, long, LONG time. The majority of the intellectual property in the EV field is in battery construction and management. It's what EV's are rated on more than anything.

They're about as ungreen as you can imagine! Know what it takes to make those batteries?! How is the electricity produced to charge it?! Give me a break!

Just carry a generator with you.

My brother didn't buy it because of the "green" cool guy features of the car in fact he dislikes that it is considered an assault on "climate change." Brother and I think "climate change" is a bunch of BS.

And we were discussing that most of the electricity in America is from coal fired plants. And that electricity has to travel, maybe 70 miles to get to your charger, and in that distance much of the electricity is lost.
So in fact your Tesla is using coal fired power and not very efficiently.

I haven’t met anybody that has bought one because they’re “green.”

Most people that want or buy one are car nuts.

And they have advantages as a commuter.

And Li batteries are so clean and green to dispose of...

Only 23% of electricity in the US comes from coal fired power plants. Natural Gas powers most plants now.
In your state of NC 33% comes from nuclear, 30% natural gas, 28% coal and the rest is mainly hydro and solar.
I'm not standing up for EV's but the coal argument isn't a very good one.

The best thing about all electric cars is, we don't have to buy one.......yet.

Astute remark whackem_stackem. In fact, two years ago our power was coal fired, and last year they switched to natural gas.
Still, natural gas gives off greenhouse gas and plenty of it, although less than coal.
And, our power has to travel 50 miles so much of it is lost in transmission.

I would like to see the comparison, natural gas powered electricity that had to travel over 50 miles of electric lines, to power a Tesla, vs a regular car that burns gasoline.
I will bet you that you get less "greenhouse gases" with the gasoline vehicle, in this instance, than you do with the Tesla.

"You can get a complete charge in 13 hours."

How fast is the electric meter spinning?

"maybe 70 miles to get to your charger, and in that distance much of the electricity is lost."

Not as much as you'd think. The average loss in transmission lines is about 2% and in distribution lines about 5%.