Musk: Almost 400.000 People Pre-ordered Tesla Model 3
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scatman839
fantaskarsef
My main complaint is that there's almost no charging stations, and due to legal reasons it's not always easy for people without their own property (or with mixed property, condos or apartments for instance) to have one built in their home. And there's literally a single charging station here in Vienna, and that's at the Tesla seller... the next one you can't even reach with a full charge (other bigger cities here in Austria).
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to jump the hype train, but the infrastructure isn't ready everywhere, so they won't sell those cars to everybody. I couldn't have a charging station built at my home even if I wanted to, not to mention spending $35k or more likely, €40k for a car plus another 1-5k for my own charging station at home...
Spets
Yeah we need more charging stations here too.. I like that Tesla is becoming larger globally, the infrastructure should surely follow when enough people are on board.
I like hearing about Elon Musk and his endeavors.
Turanis
400k of hipsters. 😀
Remember when appear overpriced Apple iPhone in 2007 and everybody omg,omfg get him.And now everybody have a smart phone with touch screen.
After 10 years,maybe,1bilion people will have electric car if oil company will wanna let us.So no worry.
gUNN1993
vbetts
Moderator
I honestly thought about it, but still too high for me. When there are Tesla's or electric cars in the 20k range with the range or near the range of a gas powered car and looks comfortable, I'll get one. Until then I'll stick with my Focus.
ScoobyDooby
I will be in the market for one once they actually arrive to my local dealership.
I'm in no rush for it..but would be awesome to get one.. I'm sick of relying completely on oil and will welcome the change
scatman839
ScoobyDooby
Reddoguk
Unless you are using solar power or wind power to charge the thing then it's pointless if you ask me.
You still need to burn a lot of fossil fuels to power the thing. So i'm not too sure about electric cars tbh.
I would rather they just make Hydrogen powered cars instead as the tech is already available for it to happen. They just need to make F1 fuel tanks available to general motor manufacturers and then we have an endless supply of super cheap rocket fuel for the road.
You could even be able to make Hydrogen at home very easily but even that needs some power use from fossil fuels or you could just wire up a solar panel to the H2O smasher for totally free fuel.
Juni0rM1nt
Where do I sign up to get one of these babes? 218miles/ charge is 4 times > the best GM offer!!
maize1951
scoter man1
scatman839
ScoobyDooby
Fox2232
scoter man1
Fox2232
You can get Turbine engine instead. But it has little downside...
Seen at 1:24.
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It can be quite efficient, if you can drive it at maximum rpm 🙂
EspHack
I couldn't care less about emissions or whatever, but folks just read something before posting, your energy company's power plants are light years ahead in efficiency compared to the average car, having 2m little moving gas plants vs 10 huge city plants is still a huge step
and people complaining about stations I don't see the problem unless you live in the US/Canada/japan, almost the entire rest of the world uses 220v+ lines, enough to fill a tesla overnight
when I see the big picture, how the worldwide infrastructure for gas powered cars is compared to what the EV one would be, there's just no excuse not to switch, using gas just seems like a freaking huge waste of resources
ScoobyDooby