Tesla Profitable

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Compared to a 928 a 911 sounds like a lawnmower engine.

and that is just ONE reason to love the 911


I agree re good noises.

Electric vehicles make more sense as sedans, trucks etc. Think about how much Lexus spends to deaden engine noise...

[TheMentat]

Originally Posted by Moses

Tesla? Humbug. I want 600 HP, 0-60 in 4.5 seconds. A 250 mile electric range or a 900 mile range when burning gas. And when I'm burning gas, I want my 600 HP car to get 80 MPG.

What happened to the PML Flightlink Mini Cooper QED?




http://www.autoracing1.com/article.asp?id=1165

That's pretty cool! Unsprung weight might be a bit high, but cool nonetheless!

[911pcars]

And as Jay Leno volunteered in a recent interview, the more alternative energy cars there are, the more oil there will be to power vintage sports cars, like Austin Healy's, MG's, Porsches, etc. Leno conveniently didn't mention this one in his stable:

http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/jay-lenos-tank-car-at-pebble

Guestimates; about 3 mpg.

But he's right.

Sherwood

[Moses]

Originally Posted by TheMentat

That's pretty cool! Unsprung weight might be a bit high, but cool nonetheless!

The hubcentric motors are pretty light and there are no rotors or calipers so the unsprung weight is not a real problem. Plus, with 640 HP...

[island911]

Originally Posted by TheMentat

That's pretty cool! Unsprung weight might be a bit high, but cool nonetheless!

That's what my first thought was too. Tho, impressively they didn't add much. And, when taken as a ratio of sprung weight it becomes even less significant.

Moses has it right, that those guys are on a better path than is Tesla --other than securing hundreds of Millions of tax-payer dollars from BarryO. CAH-Ching!

[David]

The main thing an ICE only car can't do that a hybrid or electric car can do is recover energy under braking. Sure I can get 20 mpg in my truck at a steady 65 mph, but the rest of the time it gets about 13 mpg. If it was a hybrid, it would get 20 mpg all the time (or at least 18 mpg or so.)

[m21sniper]

Not entirely true. The ICE vehicle could recover the energy and then shut down the alternator when the recovery battery is at full charge.

[widebody911]

I'm sure that with the cubic dollars this dude has available, he could have leased something better.

Originally Posted by svandamme

This one?



looks like she has a short circuit

[m21sniper]

It's probably just a lousy picture of her. And besides, finding interesting, intelligent, non-self centered/shallow hotties is NOT easy.

Most super hot chicks are quite dim and TOTALLY into themselves.

[David]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Not entirely true. The ICE vehicle could recover the energy and then shut down the alternator when the recovery battery is at full charge.

Then you'd have a hybrid.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by 125shifter

Then you'd have a hybrid.

I meant simply recover the braking energy and store that- not the actual engine energy.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

It's probably just a lousy picture of her. And besides, finding interesting, intelligent, non-self centered/shallow hotties is NOT easy.

Most super hot chicks are quite dim and TOTALLY into themselves.

A lot of not-hot chicks are this way too...

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by red-beard

How much of the money they received was grant money?

I could be profitble too, if someone gave me $250M

redbeard and kaos are right on the money IMO.

[berettafan]

[QUOTE=cl8ton;4823814]But seriously, if I’m going to fork over >$100k for a car, it had better have the following qualities…

A) Wife/Girlfriend smells like unburned fuel at the end of the drive
B) Garage smells like burning oil/hot German metal after a hard drive
C) No stereo cause I want to hear the pipes roar
D) 5 point harness
E) No cup holders
F) Terrified cars at a stoplight next to me

I would pay a bit more and just buy a GT3
QUOTE]


really nicely stated!

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

A lot of not-hot chicks are this way too...

I don't talk to those, so i wouldn't know.

[island911]

$250,000,000.00?

I thought it was $430,000,000.00 ...but hey, whats an extra 18 ten-million dollars between friends?

[Sonic dB]

Originally Posted by widebody911

I'm sure that with the cubic dollars this dude has available, he could have leased something better.

Yeah, and you'd kick her out of bed... right.





anyway she is very cute in person and very nice too, seemed smart and she was telling me about the components of the Tesla car and the science behind it.

[m21sniper]

I'd hit it.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I detect a nosejob somewhere between those two pics.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

I detect a nosejob somewhere between those two pics.

yup