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Apr 22nd, 2024, 19:35 | #1241 | |
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Apr 22nd, 2024, 22:11 | #1242 | |
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Apr 22nd, 2024, 22:16 | #1243 | |
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"Pushes" as in mass rollout of charging stations, more investment into EV tech that will lead to better range in cars, incentives for people to buy EV's like some kind of scrappage scheme (dare I say that) and affordable EV's. If the manufacturer's are at the receiving end of spiraling costs, that's passed onto the consumer. The costs have to come down for them to make them cheaper to buy for us. There's a lot of factors that have to be considered... I just can't see how they'll do all that in 11 years. The climate agenda has gone stale. People aren't buying into it. Manufacturer's have stopped EV production and its likely that more will follow. If the manufacturer's stop, there definitely won't be any EV's! Well, not new ones anyway.
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Apr 23rd, 2024, 09:24 | #1245 |
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Not to disagree with much of what has been said already but in my opinion, a fair amount of blame for the lack of progress sits with the manufactures.
If we consider the predominant player (at least in NA and Europe), it would much rather mess around with vanity projects like autonomous driving systems and that awful dumpster fire which is the Cybertruck than attempt to address the real needs of the market at large. What's needed from them in order to make this happen is a return to the "Volk Wagen" and Ford-ism philosophies. There's absolutely no need to conflate sophisticated self-drive systems, which are still decades out if for no other reason than the need for legislation and regulation to catch up, with the need to provide electric drive trains whilst forcing all of the development and manufacturing cost onto the consumer.
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You might recover quite a bit (I don't know...maybe 50%?), but absolutely not all. The motor is not 100% efficient, and there's various forms of drag to consider. cheers James
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Apr 23rd, 2024, 16:04 | #1248 |
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Bum flickering times for Tesla at the moment. Maybe in future Tesla will be no more?
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Apr 23rd, 2024, 17:56 | #1249 | |
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In an alternative universe, there's a Tesla which focused its efforts on the development of leading-edge motor, battery and charging technologies for the automotive industry, to which it was a supplier. Maybe producing just one or two 'concept' lines akin to Polestar, as a platform demonstration, whilst leaving the automotive industry to get on with supplying electric vehicles to the masses based on its decades of market experience.
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