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Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
https://www.tesla.com/roadster/
This looks like a sweet ride. I love gas engines, but I may be sold on a 1.9 second 0-60 time and a top speed of 250+ all while getting over 600 miles per charge! I would miss a nice engine and exhaust sound for sure though.
I am in love with my F-Type, and told my wife 5 years down the road if I wanted a newer car I would buy a newer mode year F-Type in a heart beat. When Jaguar Land Rover announced all its cars would be electric by 2020 I rethought my statement. I don’t think an F-Type would have such an appeal to me without any engine or exhaust sounds.
So the question is, who is ready for the electric car take over? What will you miss about gas engines, or won’t you miss anything? Can electric sports cars replace gas sports cars?
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
You'd be the first kid on your block with that Tesla. Maybe the first one in beautiful downtown Allentown.
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
I will not miss them because I will always have one
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
Originally Posted by
Belair
You'd be the first kid on your block with that Tesla. Maybe the first one in beautiful downtown Allentown.
Haha no such thing as beautiful downtown Allentown. I don’t think I’ll ever own one, especially at that price maybe if it was 4 times cheaper.
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
Originally Posted by
Klasse Act
I will not miss them because I will always have one
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Klasse, do you think gas cars will be produced for the foreseeable future? I have often wondered when gas cars will be the floppy disk of the future.
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
There's so much oil in the ground...no problem! I'll tell you THIS, sun rays and solar panel powered airplanes...well I'll say this....YOU FIRST
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
Originally Posted by
Klasse Act
There's so much oil in the ground...no problem! I'll tell you THIS, sun rays and solar panel powered airplanes...well I'll say this....YOU FIRST
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For the foreseeable future my gas guzzling, exhaust cracking and popping car isn’t going anywhere. I have heard Tesla’s are a blast to drive, but haven’t gotten the privilege to do so yet.
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
•IMO:
-It will probably be quite a spell before the
power grids could ever handle all transpor-
tation being done by electric vehicles.
With that in mind: the petroleum infra-
structure is just too great (at this point
in time) to even think that ICE will/should
just magically disappear.
-OK: perhaps we are on the verge of a
veritable game changer. (But let’s keep the
government subsidies—my tax monies—out
of it)
Instead, I say:
Let the people decide; and the market
will play out accordingly.
Until then:
why can't ICE and electric vehicles share
the roads?
Shoot, as far as that goes:
even then...why would ICE have to die?
Bob
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
~Joaquin de Setanti
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
Very difficult to make electric only cars in the US. It’s sooo spread out. Yes i see the 600 miles per charge statement but that hasn’t happened yet and at what cost. 300 miles isn’t long enough range for that family wanting to drive from the Midwest to Florida. Surely an all electric minivan would have to have quite a battery capacity to haul 7-8 at 80 mph.
Lobbyists have big oil agendas and they control much of what happens too
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Re: Thoughts on Tesla Roadster
I think its doable down the road but 1.9 sec 0-60 is hard as is the 600 mi range. Personally. I dont care how you get the power as long as its reliable. I also think noises could be pipped into the cabin or exhaust if actually wanted maybe it could be like a selling feature of you choose your engine configuration sound
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