Understanding Tesla’s Potemkin Swap Station
Tesla can’t seem to keep its story straight. After presenting battery swap as a key technology and insisting that the number of vehicles participating in its swap program is “not like ten or something,” the company now says a “very small percentage” of “hundreds” of invitees are participating.
Tesla and Musk would not make another dolar if not for other peoples money.
The taxpayers.
Dolar dollar what ever
Snake oil, in battery form.
To apply a comment from a previous era, ”There’s a sucker born every minute.” Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as if there’s a population explosion in that sector.
Charging station for Tesla cars,using a diesel generator…..
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/28/friday-funny-tesla-is-apparently-recharging-emissions-free-electric-cars-with-a-diesel-generator/
Closely related is today’s item in the Globe about solar in Ontario…and elsewhere.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-darker-side-of-solar-power/article24649804/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_rob
How Tesla really makes money and why government should stay out of all free enterprise endeavours.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397162/tesla-and-its-subsidies-phil-kerpen
I see the sales of the Volt are way down
Pulled up behind a Tesla S.. In my 89 mustang a few hours ago. Passed him in second gear WOT. He wasn’t trying but maybe he already had 20 miles on his charge, who knows. My car is “modified”, and LOUD. Only did it cause well, it was a Tesla…lol.
There certainly is in the stockbroker profession. This must be the biggest collection of fraud artists there is. Why is Tesla expensive, or Google, or TWITter?
None of them have ever turned a profit, their finances are a mess, yet their stock values are S-K-Y high.
The fall will be mighty and will crush many
Hey, the Teslas are sleek attractive cars. Terribly overpriced, of course, and they are all snob appeal, as these are usually your champagne socialist, holier-than-thou elitists at the wheel.
And yeah, my Stang would leave them in the dust too, I can drop the top, feel the breeze, love the growl of the pipes, and cover 400+km more than that battery on wheels.
That was coming out of Mission on the flats going west.
I got a ride in a Tesla a few weeks
ago in California.
No combustion engine can create
direct thrust like Tesla has.
Zero to sixty in three seconds, easily.
My client says it’s very hard on tires,
but not at all hard to keep charged.
I don’t think he has tried any particularly
long trips.
I have always laughed at solar power…
and the notion that solar power
can replace everything. Like how
the hell can solar power operate
a heavy duty tractor?
But feeling the thrust of a Tesla,
which is totally different than the
thrust in a combustion engine…
they’ve got my attention.
‘with no apparent fanfare, CARB(California Air Resources Board) reclassified the 85 kW Model S as a “Tier V” ZEV(zero emission) [PDF], nearly doubling its per-vehicle credits from four to seven.’
Carbs are bad? Not for Tesla.
No doubt he could kick my oldcars ass. But try it on a zero degree dry winter day, or after a 200 mile drive. Plus there is something a bout a rumbling v-8 as opposed to a sewing machine. Plus I paid $5,000 for mine. I will bet my Bassani 3 inch stainless just pissed him off. I have a screaming dislike of greenies.
Looks like the Volt has become just like the edsel A LEMON