Tesla Electric Automobiles

My dream car is a red Tesla Roadster. They are so sporty. I have seen a few around town. There is also a huge Tesla charging station five minutes from my apartment. It was completed a month ago. There are 12 charging pumps.

A friend of mine purchased a Chevy Volt 2 years ago. It's so quiet. It was very disconcerting at first. Now, I'm used to it. He lives in an apartment and is unable to charge his car at home. He joined a few electric charging networks and has never had any problems charging his car. There are plenty of charging stations in our city.

 

I would love having an electric car in general. Especially, since a Tesla has more space and recharging is not necessary. Seeing gas prices change I would prefer never having to pay for gas again. I definitely hold the electric car as a must have, not only does it save money but helps the environment. Repairing and maintaining the vehicle becomes easier than ever before, without a combustion engine. Not to mention the insane acceleration offered by the machinery with the right tweaks and adjustments it would be one of the dangerously fastest cars.

 

I'm getting quite jealous reading this. In South Africa our power supply is under serious pressure and we have regular scheduled power cuts just to keep it from collapsing altogether. I'm not sure if there are electric cars around, but if anyone has one they may find themselves being unable to use it when they need to get around. I hope the situation improves before I'm too old to be able to take advantage of this new technology.

 

I am a huge advocate for researching alternative ways to fuel vehicles. We only have a limited amount of fossil fuels and these will not hold up forever. Once they run out, if we don't have any other way to fuel, we simply won't be able to use them anymore. Certainly this will not happen in my lifetime but for future generations this will definitely be an issue. There are just so many benefits to providing an alternative fuel source.

 

Fossil fuels are becoming more and more outmoded. It seems the only reason why fossil fuels have not completely been replaced is due to cooperate monopolies and or government regimes. There are countless other ways to fuel, including water, hemp, air, solar, and electrically. These are a few ways which can be undertaken by anybody with the right tools. Certainly this will happen in the next upcoming years. However the benefits for providing an alternative fuel source, will reap in the distant future.

 

The only problem with electric cars are the charging stations. Like the LPG engine of taxicabs here, they complain that LPG filling stations are too few that sometimes they do not ply routes that have no filling stations. That's understandable for what would happen if you run out of fuel and there's no filling station nearby. It is worse for LPG because unlike gasoline where you can buy in a container, an LPG cannot be transported like that. It has to be direct to the taxicab's LPG tank.

I am more excited with the Google Car than the electric car because of the higher probability of being practical in usage.

 

What I mean about the excitement in Google Car is its feature - driverless.

I have been meaning to buy an e-bike which costs approximately $300 only. The literature said it can run for 3 hours before a recharge is needed and when it goes on lobatt then you can use the pedals. I find it very practical for an electric bike because of that pedal which electric cars don't have. But my apprehension is the maintenance and after sales support. What if something goes wrong with the bike? The second point is the battery. The warranty on the battery is not very clear so that is a point of doubt. But most of all, traveling on 2-wheels is very risky because of the seemingly reckless driving of mostly public utility vehicles. So if I buy that e-bike, I can use it only inside the village.

 

One problem I see with electric vehicles is the sorry state of the electric grid in the U.S. Blackouts and Brownouts happen too often as it is when temperature extremes cause too much power usage. If a significant portion of the population were to plug in an electric car every night the power stations couldn't handle it.

 

I am surprised with that comment about the blackouts and brownouts in the US. When we had that problem in 1994 and 1995, we all accepted that fact since we know ours is a third world country, meaning we live in a poor country. But for the US to suffer that problem, I am really surprised. I haven't been to America but our orientation was that America is an ideal country, not perfect but ideal. And what's ideal if there are power outages?

Let me just segue a bit. With the present problem of traffic here, it got me thinking that the world is getting to be crowded. For all we know, the population may have exceeded the optimum level vis-a-vis resources that's why we are now feeling the effects, so similar to climate change eh?

 

Seven years ago I bought an electric mobility scooter to get around the down town area I live in. The first few years I went through a set of batteries every 12 months. That was because I went out joy riding every day and at full speed, 5-6 MPH. My last set of batteries are over 2 years old. I learned to drive at half speed and avoid hills as much as possible. Also, I don't ride it every day anymore or in the winter much.

 

Do you mean to say that frequent use of the electric scooter drains the battery? I thought batteries last long when you charge it properly. From the dealer of the phone, she said that I should drain the battery before re-charging it so the battery's life will last longer. Charging when not necessary lessens the life of the battery. And with a year of use of that battery, I guess it is expensive of you have to buy a new battery every year. Maybe the new electric motors now are advanced when it comes to battery consumption.

 

Batteries can only be recharged a number of times. Where I live I wouldn't want to go out with a battery with a low charge, just to run it down for a recharge. In my town, everything is on a hill. I let my battery run down too low once, and could barely get back to my building, which is on a hill. My scooter has a built in charger that shuts off when the battery is fully charged. As long as it's plugged in it will stay fully charged. My current batteries are 2 years old and holding up well. May get 3 years out of them. Also, cold weather saps power from batteries, and I live in Iowa. We know about cold. lol.

A fellow I once worked with built an experimental electric car once. He attached an auto generator to each of the four wheels and had a 12 volt electric motor for power. The motor ran off four car batteries. He reasoned with the four generators recharging the batteries as he drove, he should be able to go great distances on a full charge. Didn't quite work that way. Each of the four generators added resistance that the drive motor had to overcome, along with just moving the car.