Re: Tesla Map

Posted by Steve Smith on Oct 31, 2013; 9:37pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Tesla-Map-tp7584163p7584170.html

Jochen -

Have you bought yours yet?  In Colorado, the tax incentives a few years ago created huge effective discounts... something like 40% of the vehicle cost was recovered in tax breaks.

I'm a member of a local EV enthusiasts group and there definitely isn't one in that crowd... there IS a Nissan Leaf and a whole host of DIY conversions, but nobody with the funding for something like the Tesla.  One of the guys has a DeLorean he plans to convert.  Me I'm a VW Cabriolet (nod to German Engineering) kinda guy.

If our major source of electricity is coal, it is likely from the Kaipowaritz plant in NW AZ... they have been digging coal and sluicing it 100 miles from the middle of the Navajo Rez for 40 years or more...  a (Navajo) friend of mine was studying the problems with the aquifer that came with that sluicing 30 years ago while I was helping with the investigation of the corruption in the McDonald administration on the Rez.   Nothing changes.

We have a lot of natural gas in NM, but apparently we don't have the power plants?  We *are* a small state with a limited heating as well as cooling season (even our deserts have late start/early end summers and our mountains warm days in spring and autumn).

- Steve

Tesla Motors has a nice map which state uses what kind of energy, California depends mostly on Gas, while New Mexico uses mostly Coal. Anyone driving a Tesla Model S in Santa Fe already? 

http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#electricity

-J.

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