Going Electric?

Will you get an electric car?

  • I already have an electric car!

    Votes: 2 3.5%

  • I can`t wait to get an electric car!

    Votes: 6 10.5%

  • I`m sitting on the sidelines, not sure set.

    Votes: 15 26.3%

  • No, I`m sticking with fossil fules

    Votes: 34 59.6%
  • Total voters
    57
LEDetailng said:
How about a helipad for the autonomous passenger drones:)
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LOL

Side note, I`m not on board with the autonomous thing as I want to be in control and I enjoy driving. Hopefully by the time autonomous takes over I`ll be too old to drive. ;)
 
RaskyR1 said:
LOL

Side note, I`m not on board with the autonomous thing as I want to be in control and I enjoy driving. Hopefully by the time autonomous takes over I`ll be too old to drive. ;)
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I’m with you on that as well. I love to drive, even on long boring stretches of Interstate.

With that being said, the majority of drivers should not have licenses.

There will probably be a time in 20-30 years where vehicles will not be allowed on certain interstate or highway systems without a high level of automation. With technology advancing I could see sensors not allowing non-autonomous vehicles to access such roadways. Easy way to enforce the non-autonomous vehicles from driving, would be driverless autonomous enforcement vehicles that would be able to disable or rolling roadblock the violators. Totally a 1984/big brother prediction, but plausible. NY and California probably being the first states to adopt such policies.
 
Lonely interstate is fun to drive on. Bumper to bumper stop and go is where I want my car to drive for me while I surf or read a book.
 
Not sure if you guys have seen this, but the specs are pretty incredible:

Tesla Roadster release date, price and features | TechRadar

What is it? Tesla`s new sportscar, an update of its original vehicle
What’s the range? 620 miles per charge
How do I reserve one? On the Tesla website
When is it out? 2020
What will it cost? $200,000 (about £150,000, AU$265,000)
How fast is it? 0-60 in 1.9 seconds, top speed 250+ mph
 
Dan said:
Not sure if you guys have seen this, but the specs are pretty incredible:

Tesla Roadster release date, price and features | TechRadar

What is it? Tesla`s new sportscar, an update of its original vehicle
What’s the range? 620 miles per charge
How do I reserve one? On the Tesla website
When is it out? 2020
What will it cost? $200,000 (about £150,000, AU$265,000)
How fast is it? 0-60 in 1.9 seconds, top speed 250+ mph
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Wow, that is insane. Quarter mile in 8.9 and 0-100 in 4.2! That video of the Roadster accelerating and passing is just comical looking. It looks fake or as if someone sped up the video. I love the reference to Spaceballs “going into plaid”:) Ludicrous was already taken:)
 
I changed my mind after seeing the new Tesla Roadster...now if I can just find a way to afford it by the time its available. :)
 
LEDetailng said:
I’m with you on that as well. I love to drive, even on long boring stretches of Interstate.

With that being said, the majority of drivers should not have licenses.

There will probably be a time in 20-30 years where vehicles will not be allowed on certain interstate or highway systems without a high level of automation. With technology advancing I could see sensors not allowing non-autonomous vehicles to access such roadways. Easy way to enforce the non-autonomous vehicles from driving, would be driverless autonomous enforcement vehicles that would be able to disable or rolling roadblock the violators. Totally a 1984/big brother prediction, but plausible. NY and California probably being the first states to adopt such policies.
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Makes me want an old carbureted or diesel vehicle with out all the computers, electronics, and sensors. :)
 
Just watched the presentation at lunch. Here is the sped up version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_SjAcQeU1A&t=935s

Those specs...they are for the base model! I think that means there is going to be a faster one out there! I`m pretty impressed with the truck as well. The range and fast charging seem to make it very viable. 400 mile charge in 30 minutes. With no load, 0-60 in 5 seconds, I can`t wait to see truckers hooning these around, I hope a couple of riced out racers get a lesson from a big rig...lol.

Gotta say, I`m an Elon fanboy these days. No one else is pushing the bar quite as far as he is, nice to see real innovation and lofty goals. Even better from an American based company.
 
Tesla Roadster takes torque to a level that cannot ever be achieved in a daily drivable internal combustion engine.

10,000 NM of torque = 7,376 lb/ft!!!!!!!!! I don’t think that is a typo either:)
 
I am and will always be a car guy. It’s how I got here in the first
Place. Been down the I can’t afford squat years of piecing together crap and painting it with a rattle-can. To halfway decent cars that I modified and made into unreliable , super fast when they ran otherwise paperweights. Lol. Foward to my last 20 years. I buy them how I want them and dont modify them bc I’m too old to push them or work on them on the side of the road.

I drove the Tesla seriously before we purchase our last vehicle a bmw 5 Series. It was for my wife and although I drive it occasionally it was going to be her choice. The range thing would have been totally fine with her use patterns. She could have just charged at home At night 99 percent of the time. The only thing she came up with that would have been problematic was visiting my son at school. It’s a 5 plus hour drive and with traffic you would need a charge. So I said we could take my car for that. I really wanted her to get the Tesla. In the end she was not mentally comfortable with the idea she could run out of juice and not be able to find a charging station and the technology of the one screen does everything not being to her liking , well, that ended that. She even offered to take my year old car and id get the new Tesla. (Yes I have a great wife). For me the range will not work and as impatient as I’ve become it would be a bad buy for me.

I’m open to the idea of going electric, as long as it fits my use, budget and performance goals.

Btw- Make mine white !

https://www.tesla.com/roadster/

Budget smudged lol
 
I would be interested when the range improves. With countries and companies going all electric, this will put more into R&D on battery and other power source technologies. It can be perfect in a multi-car situation.

Some of the cost benefits will likely disappear when the governments see declining gas tax revenues so there will be some cost of ownership.
 
JSFM35X said:
To halfway decent cars that I modified and made into unreliable , super fast when they ran otherwise paperweights.
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Boy have I learned that lesson a few times. It seems like the more I mod my car, the less I like it in the end. Part of the reason the Vette has stayed 100% stock save for the tune (to get rid of the dumb skip shift).
 
I guess local plays a big role, but when I looked into it briefly, superchargers aside, there is alot of *Indy* high power refilling stations as well. Some are profit centers where it`s in a paid parking lot, but high power chargers that don`t fall under *manuf branded* charge stations seems to be around quite a bit...
 
JSFM35X said:
... halfway decent cars that I modified and made into unreliable , super fast when they ran otherwise paperweights...
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Dan said:
Boy have I learned that lesson a few times...
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While my mods usually increase my love of that vehicle, yeah..nothing compromises reliabity quite like good intentions and an open checkbook.

Back on-topic, yeah the range issue matters here too. No way would we want something like a Tesla in the garage just to leave it there whenever either/both of us take a roadtrip.
 
mobiledynamics said:
I guess local plays a big role, but when I looked into it briefly, superchargers aside, there is alot of *Indy* high power refilling stations as well. Some are profit centers where it`s in a paid parking lot, but high power chargers that don`t fall under *manuf branded* charge stations seems to be around quite a bit...
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There are a ton of open chargers all over the place. Officially there are around 40k public charging stations to the 150k (and quickly declining) gas stations. I`m surprised that one of the gas station companies hasn`t thought to put in for pay chargers at their stations yet, but I guess they are THAT against electric. My work doesn`t have high speed chargers, but we do have 110v outlets in the garage that work with the slow charger that comes with most EVs.
 
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