An Electric Dream

Electric cars to reduce greenhouse gases? Where will the electricity come from - coal fired power plants is the answer. Does anyone remember the looming ice age that the "experts" forecast in the 80's? Doing my part for global warming - I drive a big, AMERICAN, SUV! Remember, Al Gore didn't invent the internet - but he did make up global warming.

Way to go, boys! I wish you the very best of luck in getting this and all your future projects up and running. It's time we got back to 'electric car' thinking.

Way to go, boys! I wish you the best of luck in getting this and all your projects up and running. It's time we got back to 'electric car' thinking.

Crotchfire....you can learn to spell too.....DELEMA....is realy dilema...

You couldn't even buy the EV1, you could only lease it. And the few people that could lease it loved it, until GM took them back and crushed them. GM decided to erase the EV1, and replace it with the Hummer H2. They knew that introducing electric cars would threaten their core money makers, SUV's. GM wanted people to think that electric cars were for pussies, so that they would continue buying their "Manly" gas hogs. Now the big three are freaked because a company with nothing to loose is going to show just how manly an electric car can be.

I think many of the people posting here are missing the point--and I suspect they might be the same morons that drive their hybrids at sustained highway speed. The major innovation of the Tesla is that it is a sexy, two-seat, high performance sports car. If the 0-60 time (4s or less) quoted in the article is correct, and the range/re-charge claims are accurate, then $98,000 is not only market correct, but highly competitive. The Tesla aims at making eco-freindly technology exciting and desirable, and fun to drive (basically all the things that a Prius isn't). This approach will increase interest in electric car technology across a broader market. The Tesla has nothing do with affordablity. However if the company can build an affordable electric sedan they will have already created intrest in the brand with the sports car. Automotive marketing 101.

The best hybird is like the forementioned locomotive , a small diesel generator connected to a electric motor with a lithium battery. That way it can be plugged in at home and charged overnight. Then if you daily driving exceeds the usual mileage limits of the battery(100-200 miles) the generator kicks on and you can keep on going. The generator runs at a steady rpm so it's more efficient than a regular car engine. Plus electric motors have all their torque right away.

Oh the mighty Eberhard! He totaled his Audi.Boo Hoo. But the Porshe, nah it just wasn't right for a man of his vision and wealth. Now I get to the point.......And the Prius?? NOPE,TOO UGLY FOR THIS GUY!!! I don't care what he looks like but a car is not going to make more good looking or sexy!!!!! Well, while he's attempting to make an electric car work, why can't he ride in a car that is in demand now?

And only the millionaires will be able to buy one. What about the 4 and 6 seaters? It'll probably be 20 years before we see any of them. So if I were you, I'd rush my buttocks down to TOYOTA and buy those great looking cars.........THE TOYOTA PRIUS. Thank you. Deborah Looney...Bristol, VA

To all those saying its too expensive your only half right. Yes it will be too expensive for you and me, however a successful run of these overpriced cars will provide capital for the next generation, that we will be able to afford. It's economics 101. Everything is always expensive for the early adopters (i.e. vcr's, dvd players, blu-ray, plasma TV, etc.) Give it time, anything to provide competition over the OPEC monopoly is a good thing!!!!!

The Tesla is the cutting edge of a critical industry that must florish if we are to pole vault over our critical challenges of the 21st Century. Current transportation dependent on internal combustion places us at the mercy of oil producers who are often dictators. Our dollars go to their societies which are often over run with radicals and are associated with terrorism. Stop the flow of money to the terrorists and their effectiveness is cut. Oil is also responsible for the US taking an imperalist stand throughout the world and it proping up savage regimes that work against their own people for our oligarchs. Both groups can be negated with electric automobiles. Combustion engines also are driving the planet to extinction through global warming. Electric cars along with advances in photoelectirc cell production will work to halt the rapidly advancing trend to environmental destruction. Finally the electric car is critical as we can retake the automobiole market with our innovations, export American made technology and reap the employment and balance of payment rewards. Thousands of jobs can be created retro fitting photoelectirc cells on existing homes, further removing the burden of heating oil use. The electric car must be given not only a chance, but invested in by government since private industry has too much invested in burning oil, polluting the planet, snuggling up to dictators, and squandering the nation's weath in wars and costly commodities.

The Tesla is an example of what an electric car can be: beautiful, high preformance, and totally non polluting. Certaily few will afford the Tesla to start, but it well demonstrates the potential for more affordable electric cars.
The success of the electric car can be assuredif government were to help the technical development of some of its subsysems. With a car that needs no gas, we can thumb our noses at dictators and radicls in the Middle East, free ourselves of oligarchs who sell oil and send our kids to fight for deminishing commodities, put a halt to the advancing treand of global warming, and create thousands of new jobs in manufacturing as we retake command of the automobile market. Coupled with photoelectric cell retrofitting thoughour the US, we can be energy independent and watchour balance of payments come back intot he black--not a small consideration when our potential enemies hold a trillion dollars of our debt. If we want to pole vault over the crushing issues of our era, we will all drive electric cars by 2015.

You know what Tesla needs? A place in the next Bond film. I don't know how quiet the Tesla is but it must be much quieter than the Aston Martin. What better vehicle for 007 than a sleek sports model - not to mention Lotus-based - that purrs down the road.

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Check out Kos Pharmaceuticals in 1997-1998 period. We had a buy. We knew they sucked. The whole securities industry is bullshit. They have systematically electronically harrassed me since 1996 and I am sick of it. Check out mcforums on the web. You will see everyone's stories there. Also check out raven1 on the web. They will tell you how it is done.

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Around 1996 (it is all a blur now), I worked for a large pharmaceutical
company. In one assignment I tried to track $100 million that I could
not trace and ended up receiving a bad evaluation for "taking too long."
I protested the evaluation and then began experiencing panic attacks. I
left to join a large (unethical) securities firm on the West Coast. I
was driven out of the firm very aggressively. Then got a job at another,
supposedly ethical securities firm, which of course turned out not to
be. When I began discussing my experiences with my friends and family, I
was told I was "crazy." I couldn't understand it. And then all sorts of
wierd things started happening. I got a bubbling noise in my chest,
which I was told was reflux and it did ultimately hurt very badly. I
also got vibrations in my chest which prevented me from sleeping for
nearly a year (no more than 2-4 hrs a night). I was nonfunctional, and,
yes, at that point, crazy. The goal of these events, I finally figured
out (stupid me) was to put me on psychiatric medications. As long as I
stay on those medications I sleep well and have some modest
psychological issues (probably due to the original horrible experience)
but, once stopped, the maddening rapid heartbeats return. I believe this
is to protect the firms that I have worked for in the past from
potential whistleblowing lawsuits (although I have never had any
intention to do that). This led to my divorce (I believe my husband's
family is part of the network). I also experience those "setup
moments". For example at my last job, spreadsheets I had created were
just all of a sudden gone and "unrecoverable" according to the computer
tech. And other past instances are too large to enumerate. If anyone
could help me to stop this I would do anything.