I have driven the future and it is Tesla

[herbivor]

So I guess you guys have a lot of anxiety with your phone dying huh and not being able to charge it fully in 5 minutes when it does? Or do you just charge it overnight like the rest of us?

What if you can charge it in 30 minutes? Is that too long?

[chadthestampede]

So I guess you guys have a lot of anxiety with your phone dying huh and not being able to charge it fully in 5 minutes when it does? Or do you just charge it overnight like the rest of us?

What if you can charge it in 30 minutes? Is that too long?

This is a bad analogy.

For one you can charge a phone while using it. You cannot charge a Tesla while driving it.

[mrsleeve]

^

I was going to say that.

[Massimo]

So I guess you guys have a lot of anxiety with your phone dying huh and not being able to charge it fully in 5 minutes when it does? Or do you just charge it overnight like the rest of us?

What if you can charge it in 30 minutes? Is that too long?

I think you are missing the point. For the majority of the world to accept the car it has to be able to replace there current car. Therefore as I mentioned before, if the car is low on charge and you need to get somewhere quick you don't have time to wait 10 hours. 30min or less I think would be acceptable.

If what that wiki artical is correct then I don't think a quick charging battery is to far away.

[R3Z3N]

Might work for me, but I travel to LA enough and cruise looking for vintage guitar gear, good food, then a concert....I wouldn't make it home...

[tjts1]

For one you can charge a phone while using it. You cannot charge a Tesla while driving it.

Since when?

http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm

I would get the tesla with the shortest range (40kw battery, 160 miles) and one of these for the rare long trips. No point in hauling around the extra weight when you're not using the full 85kw capacity every day. The small battery tesla should weight about 500lb less.

[Massimo]

Or you could wrap your car in this.

http://www.ted.com/talks/justin_hall..._the_grid.html

[gwb72tii]

Perhaps a novelty for someone that drives more than 300 miles a day on a regular basis. They have supercharger stations that charge the car in 30 minutes. I take at least that much of a break on long road trips. They are developing charging stations across the country so one can drive from NY to LA with no range anxiety. It would definitely be an acceptable car for 95% of people that can afford it.

this would have range anxiety unless to limit yourself to 300 miles/day when driving long distances
all the same, its a good looking car and electric motor torque is fantastic

[gwb72tii]

Well, scarce or not it's relative. There might be plenty of oil in the earth, but is it in places we can get it from? How about the exponential population growth using more and more oil as we grow, and with countries like china where more and more people that didin't have cars now driving?
Even if it's not scarce in the strict sense, it can have not enough supply to meet demand.
As technology improves, batteries in particular, there will be more electric cars, they will be more affordable, and you'll see more of them on the road.
It may happen sooner than you think.

actually if you look at UN population projections, world wide population will actuall decline in the future

[CorvallisBMW]

actually if you look at UN population projections, world wide population will actuall decline in the future

YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD

[rwh11385]

Hold on, gwb is gonna post a 'recent' publication about population prediction by Malthus.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/06/world-population-country-un#data

6.9B growing to 10B by 2100.

[rwh11385]

this would have range anxiety unless to limit yourself to 300 miles/day when driving long distances
all the same, its a good looking car and electric motor torque is fantastic

There's no limit besides driver fatigue and speed limits if you drive along the proposed Supercharger network. But you wouldn't possibly overlook information and just ignore someone's point, would you?

Herbivor's point was the 30 min charge would be his comfortable leg-stretching / bathroom / food break every 5 hours anyway and wouldn't greatly impact his road trip behavior. Drive 5 hours, break for half hour, drive for 5, repeat. Back of the napkin math = 24/5.5*300miles = ~1300 miles/day @ 60 mph if you had two drivers. Even if you never had to stop for gas period and had an infinite gas tank, you could only go 1440 miles/day @ 60mph with two drivers swapping seats while in motion.

[herbivor]

I wonder who will be the first person to drive an EV car across country in 3 days using only recharging stations? I guarantee they will be in the news, and it will happen within a couple years.

[OrganicMechanic]

I have been getting rather excited about the EV`s that are coming to market, I am just waiting to the tech to normalize before pulling the trigger.

[gwb72tii]

YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD

and you are a dick
here's a link to the un's most recent long term projections
its a 2004 report still be referenced today in talks about the sustainability of current populations etc

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf

go to page 14 and report back