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Electric cars?

Would you buy an electric car?

  • Already own one

    Votes: 10 5.1%

  • Yes - would definitely buy

    Votes: 43 21.7%

  • Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar

    Votes: 78 39.4%

  • Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc

    Votes: 38 19.2%

  • No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience

    Votes: 25 12.6%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    198
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qldfrog said:
as often, great basis and facts but maybe not so right in conclusion: Tesla technology is open source..so no licensing....
I am not against tesla, admire the technology the guy even if he is a complete jerk, but he can afford
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that’s actually not entirely true, if you watch that video I posted above they talk about their in house designed self driving computer chip is patented with multiple patents, the software is also private property.
 
Sdajii said:
I don't think anyone fails to realise how easy it is to solve the problem. We could choose a sound less annoying than a beeping tone though
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Yep - the EU already has legislation requiring that EV's to emit sound when traveling at speeds below 20 km/h or at any speed whilst reversing to address the problem.

The solution is of course done using speakers not by mechanical means and is known as Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (AVAS) as per the EU rules. There's scope for manufacturers to be creative as to the details of the sound but the EU legislation does say it should be similar to an internal combustion engine.

So an EV traveling at walking pace sounds like a diesel doing the same. That's the requirement basically.

The US is doing likewise and will require AVAS to operate at speeds up to 18.6 miles per hour.

Reason? Well research in the UK found a ~40% greater likelihood of accidents involving pedestrians with EV's as compared to ICE vehicles and noise, or the lack of it, is the assumed (and only realisticlly plausible) reason for that.

So I'm not sure why anyone sees it as difficult, my only question being why isn't it being done everywhere that such vehicles are sold?
 
Government bureaucracies are very slow moving (and bickering, which only delays things further) beasts that's why. Think about how long it's taken to get even basic legislation/regulation of drone usage for example.
 
I became aware of Nikola Tesla many years ago.
You have to wonder what he may now think of those using both his Christian and Surnames.
He was certainly no stranger to bickering.

All the best
bux
 
bux2000 said:
I became aware of Nikola Tesla many years ago.
You have to wonder what he may now think of those using both his Christian and Surnames.
He was certainly no stranger to bickering.

All the best
bux
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Donald Trump's uncle collected Tesla's ideas, works and secrets for the FBI, at the hotel after he died. Small world if true.
 
qldfrog said:
Not worried about terrain more about temperature in winter..
Interesting also is change of atmospheric pressure due to altitude variation.wonder if it is a problem
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The thinner the air the less efficient the hydrogen fuel cells are, given than they are basically electric vehicles hills and mountains shouldn't bother them, but the altitude does.
 
Chronos-Plutus said:
Donald Trump's uncle collected Tesla's ideas, works and secrets for the FBI, at the hotel after he died. Small world if true.
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My apologies for my tardy response yes another very interesting man .......sorry yesterday's language ......Person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump

It is hard to tell by the photo, can only guess...... he was an orange man ?

All the best

bux
 

Well like him or not; Trump is clearly supported by FOX news, and FOX gets the best ratings from 5pm to 11pm:


I don't want to get into politics; however if I lived in the USA, I would be a Federalist who votes Republican. In saying this; in Australia, I am a Monarchist who votes Liberal. Anyway, we should stay on topic.
 
Chronos-Plutus said:
Anyway, we should stay on topic.
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Yes agreed it could all get deep very quickly.
Apologies to everyone for taking the thread off topic.

We visited Amsterdam last year and rode in a Tesla and a Mercedes-Benz E 220 CDI

https://www.treehugger.com/teslas-completed-taxi-rides-amsterdam-airport-4852457

For me though at the moment at least, there is nothing quite like a quirt of diesel in the eye......hmm.......probably have to experience it to appreciate it
Who would have thought that 2 stroke engine in a Commer Truck would have graduated to win at Lemans

All the best

bux
 
Maybe I could warm to the idea


All the best

bux
 
Can we just take a moment to talk about tesla's run over the past couple of weeks. My god.

There's now 20 billion in shorts betting against it. Some kind of all time record.
 
over9k said:
Can we just take a moment to talk about tesla's run over the past couple of weeks. My god.

There's now 20 billion in shorts betting against it. Some kind of all time record.
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It has been an exceptional run. Good on you, if you got on the right side of the trade. I am happy for Elon
 
The correction is going to be horrific though. I was expecting it days ago.
 
Yes that's the problem - what's it going to correct to? The run is so absurd that there's really no way to be sure. I could sell today only to have it run for several days yet and then correct back to slightly above now. It could be anything.

I do know I'll buy a bit more once it does correct though as I see it as a long position. Profitability is due to be cracked next quarter which means it'll start to be bought by the index funds/considered a blue chipper.

Something tells me that decades from now, tesla's going to be an absolute leviathan. The amazon of industrials.
 

Sure; I think Tesla as a company is excellent for innovation, creativity and competition within the auto industry. I would like to see it become a great success and powerhouse within the industry. A major hurdle that I see for Tesla though is R&D investment; relative to the well established auto industry players, many of which collectively allocate 10s of billions in R&D every year, in direct competition to Tesla.
 
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True, but the game's changing and tesla's ahead of that particular curve IMO.
 
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