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Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

odelle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:02:14 -0000

Personally, I applaud anything that brings new, cleaner tech to the marketplace and to the attention of the public. Yes, it's sad that it takes such "flash" to gain the attention of the celebrity-crazed masses, but that's life. Denigrating things because they aren't perfect solutions doesn't help anyone. I'd much rather see incremental, imperfect solutions than nothing at all.
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Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Robert Scoble — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:30:57 -0000

Mic: nice try. But we live in Half Moon Bay. No public transportation. Nearest mall is 15 miles away. Nearest hospital? Same. Nearest grocery store? Three miles. We have five people living at the house right now. I'm often off doing interviews. I need my car. Maryam needs a car to get around town. There's no options in my life. It seems to me you're the arrogant one for thinking you know my lifestyle and how easy it'd be to get rid of a car. I sure would like to, they are extremely expensive.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Mic Edwards — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:40:32 -0000

You need 2 cars?

This is arrogant foolishness.

Make a plan for having one less. That will do wonders for your planetary impact!

So much for the wonders of modern technology.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Hadley Stern — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:05:50 -0000

The main thing I don't understand about electric cars is that they aren't really better for the environment. All they do is defer the pollution from the car to the electric generator (which is usually burning coal or natural gas, at least in the US). What is the environmental benefit?

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Jeff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:57:34 -0000

Scoble -

$60,000 for a car?

That might be easy for you to afford, however, the average blog Joe certainly can't pony up that kind of cash for a set of wheels. Lets face it, their blog just doesn't monetize as well as yours.

I can't for the life of me understand why you so vehemently oppose companies like Izea - a company who provides an opportunity for the average blog joe to share the wealth that you so brazenly flaunt.

You should rename your post - Interweb "fat cat" brags to "near do well" readers about plan to buy luxury vehicle.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

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Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

gorgamin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:55:27 -0000

COMBUSTION IS DEAD!

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Jay — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:08:44 -0000

I'd love if they would roll out sub 30K car.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Tomi Itkonen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:40:14 -0000

Recently, Nissan and NEC announced a joint venture to start mass-producing of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. Some googling provided info that Nissan will introduce an electric car in 2010 (US and Japan), and start mass-production in 2012. It will be interesting to see how Tesla can be competitive on this area...

It's possible my next car will be an electric one. I do hope so.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Erik S. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:31:17 -0000

Interesting. I wonder when toyota will ship a plug-in hybrid.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Christopher Coulter — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:24:58 -0000

Well, given all the troubles, lawsuits, delays, fights, ego clashes, and now that Scoble is committed, this car good as dead, Tesla smells Enronish financing scam serious. If any of the big car companies want to make an electric production car, assuming a market, bammo they can. Goodbye Tesla, easy as that. Dot com on wheels.

Really, if price no object, better off with a Shelby Cobra hydro or Anuvu's Nissan Frontier hybrid fuel cells. But this stuff is all half a scam, upfront costs, and hassles make it all quite unrealistic, but they can scam green offa people thinking political green, logic need not apply.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Charbax — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:06:41 -0000

Few things about it:

1. Why doesn't it charge in like 5-10 minutes? I've seen that there are other electric cars that use this super high voltage adapter to charge it super fast. Since they are installing new electric charging stations instead of gas stations, they might as well install super high voltage recharging stations. This way recharging your Tesla to about 80% capacity should not take longer then a few minutes. I wonder if some blogger could ask that question to the Tesla people about why they aren't implementing fast charging technology.

2. Why doesn't Google, the Chinese government and the Indian government not invest in this technology yet? With billions of dollars in investment, the mass produced sub-30 thousand dollar electric car would be available earlier to the whole world. Could some blogger ask the Tesla people if they would be able to speed up the development and the starting of the mass manufacturing of their Sedan and even cheaper models? Sorry, but I don't see why we need to wait for the large auto makers to join the electric car manufacturing shift, since we know they aren't really eager to change to 100% electric (since they have ties with the multi-trillion oil industry). So please ask Tesla, would more investment mean that they could deliver the cheaper cars faster?

3. Is it true that a multi-megawhatt wind mill pays for itself in less than 5 years and that it is the same for solar panels, and that except for maintainence that those wind and solar electric energy installation would thus provide free energy after those 5 years? And in that case, what is slowing down the installation of hundreds of thousands of wind mills and solar panels all over the world?

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Myrna the Minx — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:49:12 -0000

Unfortunate that all Tesla makes me think of is that bad cover of "Signs."

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:56:52 -0000

Simon: the Tesla Sedan is $60,000 here in US.
Ron: I love my Saturn Aura. It's turned out to be a very nice car for $28,000. It gets a lot of compliments from people who ride in it.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Ron Davis — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:45:02 -0000

Just wondering, how has the Saturn turned out after a year of use. Would you buy again?

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

No one of consequence — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:36:24 -0000

California doesn't have the generating capacity to keep the lights on all summer, and you're expecting to charge up an electric car?

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Simon Brocklehurst — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:57:11 -0000

Tesla will have to re-think their pricing strategy if they want to succeed at all in the UK market. I'm given to understand that the price of the Tesla Roadster in the UK will be $158,000 USD (£79,000 GBP).

If my pricing info correct, it is insane. This is simply not a $160K car; especially when they aren't even making a right-hand drive version at the moment.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

met — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:59:49 -0000

You missed the real reason?

x. I want it to be a topic of conversation when I meet other geeks.

:) iPhones and macbooks are not unique anymore.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Jeremy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:20 -0000

Teslas are designed in the US and built by Lotus (in the UK)...

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Rupert Watson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:47:00 -0000

Have a look at paragraph ten

http://tinyurl.com/3r277e

they think the Tesla is built in Britain...

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Jerry Chacon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:35:39 -0000

Is there a way to pre-order these yet? Or is this just an announcement of a factory?

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

Jayson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:24:41 -0000

I like the fact of savings but everyone knows the first year of a production car is for guinea pigs. First to have one on the block is Priceless, the cost stop me.

Re: Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan

allen stern — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:06:12 -0000

here's the reason I see in bold:
I want to be the first to have the sedan in my neighborhood.

60 grand for a car is absurd.