Tesla Model S Unveiled

[sluggish]

I could drive that thing back and forth to work for two weeks on one charge.

[john9001]

the future of vehicle power is electric, you may not like it, but it is the future.

[moot]

drive 160m then have to wait 45mins before going any further? no thanks.

There's a number of innovations in the pipeline allowing recharge times orders of magnitude faster (e.g. 10 seconds for a cell phone) than today's batteries.  Provided you've got the juice.  Very cool stuff.

[Treize69]

I'd still love to see fuel cell cars before I'd get an electric, but its still a neat thing.

But I love loud exhaust too much to switch just yet.

[Mark Luper]

I'd still love to see fuel cell cars before I'd get an electric, but its still a neat thing.

But I love loud exhaust too much to switch just yet.

Put on a fake dual pipe stereo exhaust system. You can hook it to a DVD player and make it sound like anything you want.

 

[maddafinga]

They tested a couple of these on TopGear the other day, it did pretty well.  Body is based on a Lotus platform (Elise maybe?) but in a drag race, beat the Lotus pretty handily.  On the track it didn't do quite as well in the turns.  The balance was off due to the weight of the batteries.  Still it ran their track at exactly the same speed as the Porsche 911 GT.  It did manage to run out of juice pretty early and break down twice as well however.  

The real coming thing is the fuel cell powered Honda Clarity however.  

http://www.topgear.com/us/videos/more/james-tests-honda-clarity

Give it a few years and this will be the new tech.  I bet it takes more than a decade though.  The powers that be have to decide that they just can't suck another single dime out of oil.  

[Angus]

Nilsen: If I recall correctly, the $ ratio was between 1:5 and 1:10 in the USA. For us, the difference would be very much more. Practically, fuel costs would become almost nothing
What's the KW in Norway BTW? I pay like 8 cents for a KW, but for the liter of gasoline it's like $ 1.2

[john9001]

a fuel cell car is a electric car, fuel calls produce electricity.  the fuel cell is used instead of a battery pack.

[Nilsen]

Nilsen: If I recall correctly, the $ ratio was between 1:5 and 1:10 in the USA. For us, the difference would be very much more. Practically, fuel costs would become almost nothing
What's the KW in Norway BTW? I pay like 8 cents for a KW, but for the liter of gasoline it's like $ 1.2

Ill do that math when im off the painkillers. Right now its just too much fun watching the wallpaper do funny stuff 

[Treize69]

a fuel cell car is a electric car, fuel calls produce electricity.  the fuel cell is used instead of a battery pack.

Thats what I mean. Instead of plugging it in and running on only batteries, it runs on a chemical reaction (and still produces exhaust, albeit pure water).