Recent content by borlock

Actually it is - the figure that the transportation department uses is $6 million per life saved. (EPA is $7 million, FDA is $8 million). So using 2006 gas consumption figures (I'm too lazy to look up new ones...), saving fuel by 5% would be worth 1'875 lives. In other words, saving fuel by...

According to Puget Sound Energy, in all but the darkest of skies you can still get 50% to 70% efficiency from Solar. So Solar is not entirely unusable over here.

I'm not sure if a specific implementation of the super charger will change anything about people's range anxiety perspective. Tesla already announced that they'll be building a 80-amp super charger network, so that is just an implementation detail. Nobody would get any further excited about that...

So we did the "Get Amped" test drive recently, and I specifically asked the co-pilot about the expected announcement as well as battery exchange. Here is the gist of his replies: * A few Tesla employees (including him) already know the details of the agreement * The announcement will be made...