Re: Tesla Map
Posted by
Jochen Fromm-5 on
Nov 01, 2013; 10:42pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Tesla-Map-tp7584163p7584184.html
Steve -
sure, I ordered a few in different colors ;-) No, seriously, the
price of a Model S is about 80,000 € ( ~ 100,000 $ ), this is much
more than I earn in a year. And I don't own a garage where I could
recharge it. I don't even own a house, we have rented an apartment
in the city.
But I already use electric vehicles, public transport and subway
work with electric trains, and car sharing services offer more and
more electric cars as well. I think this is the future, high-speed
rails between cities, and electric car sharing inside, at least
for the big mega cities like LA and NY in the US, or London, Paris
and Berlin in Europe.
-J.
On 10/31/2013 10:37 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
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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