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    What's the best App/Website to find EV Charging stations in France?

    In Saint Tropez there is an 22kW Type 2 and Type 3 charger in the Parking du nouveau Port: Parking du nouveau Port: charge point in Saint-Tropez You have to first order a badge from the company that runs it: Mon accès | Plus de Bornes They are free and I got it in my mail a few days after...
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    PHEV Emission Comparison

    Solar has almost as much CO2 emissions as gasification with CO2 storage? Seems strange....
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    Whitestar body designed by Fisker? Tesla shifts battery production to US.

    I sure hope the Whitestar will have a 'similar number of wheels' :biggrin:
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    Tesla comes to Europe (it's official!)

    Local competition for a high performance all electric car? You might have to wait a while for that, and they will probably more expensive than the Tesla. The competition are other sports cars anyway, which the Tesla already outperforms and is cheaper to purchase and operate. It also offers a...
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    Exporting (including Tesla battery news)

    :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: ...that's all.
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    Another EV list

    The THINK City, I would have actually bought this car when it comes out in 2008 - if it wasn't so damn ugly. Did the designers visit Toys 'R Us for inspiration? The City starts off ok at the front but the door frame and back come from a completely different car. Amazingly on the THINK site it...
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    Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution

    Luckily they started already with the most weird/disgusting commercials every made to sell a car. Can't wait to see what's next after the foot licking dog :confused:
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    Strange GM volt commercial

    That's not a real commercial is it? They try so hard.....
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    San Jose Mercury News Article

    Another question we could ask, is it because of the old or new management that Tesla Motors is faced with over half a year delays, not one but I believe two companies that failed to deliver an adequate transmission and put Tesla in the position of having to release the first cars with a 'temp'...
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    Coda Automotive (formerly Miles Automotive Group)

    The market seems to be changing: Car Sales: Europe Ready To Pass U.S. As Number One? - Behind the Wheel - Phil Lebeau - MSNBC.com I don't think for a startup electric car manufacturer it would make such a difference even if the EU market was smaller. They can't suddenly begin to produce 100 000...
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    Coda Automotive (formerly Miles Automotive Group)

    Something I don't understand is why they don't concentrate on the EU countries first, we have 4x more expensive gasoline here, the average distance driven per day is most likely shorter than in the US plus the small 5 door coupe is the norm car rather than the exception.
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    Tesla Merchandise

    Shipping only to the US :( Hope they ship international soon.
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    Slate: Are EVs really any better for the environment than gas-guzzling cars?

    It's an interesting study but I wonder how the comparison would change if we take into account the energy necessary to produce and maintain an ICE vs BEV vehicle throughout it's lifetime. All the parts needed for an ICE engine vs an electric motor, oil changes, oil-air filters, spark plugs...
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    Solar powered cars

    5m² seems way too optimistic, even if you paint the whole car, much of that area won't be exposed to sunlight. I would see a more practical solution with a sort of solar carpet which can be easily rolled up and stored in the car, that can be expanded to at least 10m² and set up whenever you park...
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    My Town Hall Notes

    I hope that's not entirely true, because that would be the main reason to be depressed, looking at some of the truly retarded comments posted on various blogs where Tesla is mentioned... Seeing how much trouble the use of oil to fuel your car brings, besides polluting the areas where...
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    My Town Hall Notes

    It seems the general public is a lot harsher, you get the feeling there's an army of people just dying to say "I told you so" and speculating every little issue to death. Here is a new company trying to build an entirely new high performance vehicle, that has already stirred the big automakers...
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    Is Tesla going to copy the GM Volt?

    Why give the Volt only a 40 mile range though? It seems the plan is to more or less force you to use the range extender on a daily basis....do they have plans to offer the Volt with more battery range? In that case would the extra battery package have an inflated price?.............
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    Hydrogen Car Fantasy Crumbles

    Ulf Bossel, the founder of the European Fuel Cell forum seems to agree as well: http://www.efcf.com/reports/E11.pdf
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    Motor pix

    Every time I see the motor used in the Tesla I am amazed how this tiny looking thing is responsible for all that acceleration :)
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    Israel to Back Electric Car Plan

    Truly amazing, a proposal that makes this much sense.....
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    Mercedes + Tesla ?

    It's too soon to conclude that they are 'struggling' I think. If they had been trying to get the Whitestar mass produced for a few years, then I'd say they're struggling with mass production. You CAN grow too fast and one of the most important things for Tesla to avoid right now is chaos from...
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    EngineeringTV: Chevy Volt

    This is such bullshit. They'll never make this, not for another 6 years at least. Now they've even started with the commercials hammering into peoples heads that an all electric vehicles can only go 40 miles on a charge. TEN YEARS AGO their....other...electric car did more than twice that.
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    What We Don't Know Aout the Tesla Roadster

    I posted these questions before on the Tesla blogs but I don't know what happened to them: Seeing as the batterypack consists of over 6000 individual cells, is there a guarantee that when the car is delivered, all cells are fully functioning, or does Tesla have something like a dead pixels...
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    GM PHEVs circa 1969

    No no, they're in perpetual " a few years away from mass market".
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    Toyota Says: electric cars not practical

    Would be interesting to see the numbers on how much a car company makes by selling the car, and how much they make selling parts for that car.....Wonder what the ratio is? So for them, ofcourse electric cars are at least 10 years away, they can't sell you 2000 different parts just to keep it...
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    Tesla Motors Motor

    You can find some info in the Tesla blogs. It's one motor, weighting around 45kg I think. Pretty impressive.
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    Attempts to Ban the G-Wiz Car

    The article seems *a tad* over the top ;D The whole discussion is if the G-Wiz is allowed to be called a car, which I think it shouldn't be. It should be labeled as a quadricycle, makes sense to me. Would the G-Wiz be allowed to be called a car in the US?
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    ZAP and PML Flightlink -- now it's official

    Interesting comment about these "add-on" power units in Martin Eberhards latest blog: This extra fuel storage tank would need to be mounted pretty far away from the back of the car in this case and protected somehow, which wouldn't make it an easy job of removing/installing when needed, even...
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    I want to buy a Tesla Roadster. Who will sell?

    Will you be able to drive it Europe though?
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    What about that down payment?

    Then they will have to wait until they're too old to drive ;D
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    How do you guys feel about the sound or lack of that the roadster will make?

    So in the end, we'll end up with electric vehicles that are louder than ICE vehicles? I don't understand this concern, because ICE vehicles are already very quiet at low speeds, why don't blind people have a problem with that? It's impossible to hear a slow car coming your way, if there is also...
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    Energy activists snipe at rivals

    That leap of faith has already been taken by a massive increase in investors and companies involved in producing solar cells in just the last 2-3 years. Of all the alternative energies out there, solar is growing the most, it's not really growing - it's exploding. So I guess for the average...
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    Energy activists snipe at rivals

    Notice how solar gets the least and most idiotic criticism. "It's a fraud", that's it. Well, how exactly......?
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    TTAC Throws FUD at Tesla!

    Complete waste of time listening and responding to the kind of logic displayed by Robert Farago.....
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    PG&E Looks to Wind-Power Electric Cars

    And $107 million of that was used for advertisments telling people they spend millions of dollars on renewable energy research every year ;D
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    A bigger motor

    Would the top RPM matter? On their page I see the 200 HP motor is rated at 1795 rpm, isn't that too low?
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    Zap-X

    Another benefit I guess from seeing the Zap-X materialized is that we'll see how the hub motor concept turns out in practice. Teslas comments on their blog suggested it wouldn't be such a good idea for a sports car, and some other inconveniences, but perhaps for a people car, it will be alright...
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    Zap-X

    But judging from the images on the Zap site it looks like it's left the concept stage some time ago: http://www.zapworld.com/ZAPWorld.aspx?id=4684 There were some more pics from that show, including the hub motors, but I can't find them on the Zap site anymore....
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    Vehicles fueled by compressed air....

    Well, all that is irrelevant if it turns out you need a trailer behind your car just to carry the necessary air tanks along. Again I have to ask: Has anyone shown any calculations how much compressed air you need to drive say 300 miles for a 1 ton car? What did they mention on the Discovery...
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    Vehicles fueled by compressed air....

    Well, I'm not sure who I would be responding to, but no matter if you drive a compressor directly from a wind turbine, or from electricity, you still have to ask yourself: What is the efficiency of the compressor? How much energy do I put in, and how much is left in the compressed air? I think...
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    The Register Disses Tesla!

    I don't know, if such a thing was available, I would buy it. It would mean you could take your electric car virtually anywhere it's drivable. No worries about petrol stations or power lines. You go camping somewhere, you unfold it the whole time you're there. I think it would be enough to give...
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    The Register Disses Tesla!

    I was thinking about the possiblity to use thin sheet solar modules to recharge the car whenever you stop. As Nanosolar is about to start production on their new cheap thin film panels, would it be such a bad idea to construct a sheet of these panels that could be rolled up and stored in the...
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    Global Warming: Fact or Mass Hysteria?

    This "political agenda" argument seems a bit silly to me. The only ones who profit from making a political agenda in general are those already in power and getting very rich in keeping things as they are. Oil companies and car manufacturers would be the ones to accuse of having a politial...
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    Global Warming: Fact or Mass Hysteria?

    Yes, see that documentary and then read this: http://inthegreen.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/deconstructing_.html It's interesting also that the director of the documentary, Martin Durkin in 1997 made another documentary called "Against Nature" comparing environmentalists with Nazis, conspiring...
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    Vehicles fueled by compressed air....

    But how much energy is required to compress that air? How efficient is the compressor? Perhaps at most 60%? Then what is the efficiency of the engine running on compressed air? So instead of using energy to compress the air with a 40% loss, then run it in an compressed air engine with further...
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    mlive.com editorial: Ethanol Is Not the Revolution

    I don't disagree that ethanol, or algae based petroleum products won't have a use in the future. I'm just mad i guess that ethanol currently gets so much publicity, purely for political reasons and for the financial gains of a few, while electric vehicles get almost no mention as a posibility...
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    mlive.com editorial: Ethanol Is Not the Revolution

    But a transition period of how many years? If Whitestar will be out by 2009, and then a third model by 2011, we are talking here 5 years to having a viable electric vehicle solution? And by that time batteries will be better too, perhaps giving you a range of at least 500 miles. In five years...
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    mlive.com editorial: Ethanol Is Not the Revolution

    I hope we will see the criticism of ethanol mounting because it needs to be shown what a terrible idea it is. Such a shame all those millions of tax payers money that will be wasted..... The common success story given is Brazil, yet it would take so little to show why it works in Brazil but...