"um - the cayman is that price. so is the boxster s. entry level models. same demographic.
electric cars are the way of the future. people need to get used to that. we don't need long ranges when you plug it in when you get home or to your destination. you plug your phone in to charge when you get home. you'll do the same for your car.
the only problem with electric cars, (besides dealing with the batteries and all that entails from both an economic and ecological standpoint) is how the electricity is generated. we need to get off of fossil fuels to generate electricity, and get on to solar, hydroelectric, and safer nuclear (please don't pronounce in nuke-u-lar mr bush). we already have the ability to generate enough solar power to feed the entire country. we just need to build a really big set of panels in the desert, where we aren't using the land for anything else anyway.
it's going to take more people weening themselves off of the lazy habit of accepting gasoline as the source of fuel. it's happening, albeit slowly. now, if we could get the same level of movement in large array collectors, in 10 years we could be off gasoline almost completely.
if we could get our garbage trucks to collect and sort the starch laden trash, and take it to stills and turn that into alcohol, we'd be there now. no corn nonsense. trash. FREE!"
Absolutely, corn isnt necessary, its just yet another subsidized crop, that is cheap because of that. We could grow algae with a 80-90% yield of long chain fatty acids perfect for conversion to b100.
"Don't get me wrong, it looks like it could be a great car, I'm just suspicious that once the initial demand from the very limited demographic that is going to be interested in this car is met, you're going to find them languishing in dealer's lots. $70K is a huge price for the entry-level model, which has a range of maybe 160 miles, iirc., probably <100 miles in the extreme cold. Also, the American taxpayers are going to quickly tire of subsidizing these things. I know I already am."
The base entry level model is 50k. The base model with the 300 mile range (85 kWh battery) is 70k. Basically if you want 300 miles of range, its an additional 20k for the batteries. Its like 7000 batteries. The range youre referring to is the $50k model. Which is 160 miles IIRC. As a Libertarian, I certainly agree with the subsidies, I dont expect those to last though.
As a side note though, Im not sure whats going on with the forum software. I keep getting errors when doing things. Like trying to use the multi-quote here tells me.
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I also couldnt start a new topic in the "what do you think" forum, and when I use the search engine all I get is an error about one of the words I used has too few characters.
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