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Acceleration comparisons on that level of sports cars in milliseconds is as important as faster ejaculation after masturbating on the open. In a country with (wisely) 90 miles top speed buyer deciding (even wiser) on a car after calculating which model has more cup holders fitting the big...

Both connectors are Tyrannosaurus Rex's. Oh now - even that would be to advanced. With a solid inductive coupler one can stand in a water-lake and dont get shocked - like in the trashed EV1 had as standard equipment. The closure (both) looks as decent / flimsy as a Lehmann bookkeeping...

Good news indeed. just wait for the PARIS auto show in four weeks in FRANCE. The socks of many EV wannabes will be blown of for good by a avalanche of economically drivable EV city cars by many experienced producers.

To explain the content of the last mail from Tesla to its buyers - having handed over a solid heap of money for nothing - much shorter: - we screwed you and will go on screwing either you and / or find other laymen's. You can have your deposit we worked back , with it happily worked...

The problem is much to complex to find a solution the simple woven Bush way: "we good against them evil" That problem existed indeed and was taken head on by the cruise ship industry. Nowadays on the modern cruise ships (the few I was on) the waste management would make any small USA town...

If you mean the car - here in Europe its a mere 160.000 US$ your right.

Worse - they have not even a electrical storage for (huge wasted - but ok - its free) surplus energy. They have batteries capable running the full ship (maximum for 30 minutes) until the auxiliary motors are jumping in - but thats it. You should note that while in harbor only one diesel is...

Sorry for that - and dont take it personal please I like your statement. Anyhow - to understand the hesitation the USA are confronted today it is important to know why and that what many feel here. Dont believe the *sugar* Bush is quacking - "bcs "we" are free..." Basically every halfways...

Yes - but there are more reasons - - no shaft to the rotor means no vibrations (A very big deal on a cruise ship) - cost effective - the heavy engines & generators can be located anywhere where they fit the ship structure best (as the current is delivered to the motors by a wire thick as a...

That the US army is technically not the fittest anymore and leaves much to wish for is no state secret - anymore. If DARPA would not engage, contract & invite private companies and campuses they would buy arches & arrows in China. So they buy only the computers there:-) Joke aside. The...

I worked in China for a elongated time and know very well what it means in China to wish somebody to "...live in Interesting Times" Actually your wishing Martin with your quote drifting dead in cold water tits up - having died the hard way...

my goodness. How bigot Tesla has problems with a simple thing like a gearbox. Tesla is fumbling in a 90% non-US car re-exported to Europe for a mere 100.000 € (160.000$) with a gearbox? In a country who has send a man to the moon in the last century, turning Clintons left, hefty US...

And 0% efficent under snow load, rain or ice. Rotting faster then a Fiat rusts and easy serviceable like a Citroen

probably the author is ahead of the traditional "electrical scientist". For example (there are other technical solutions as well feasable): If your on a 380 Volt industrial outlet (available in Europe and i guess in the US as well, at every petrol station, Wall Mart, car service station...

Berlin Hearts Electric Smarts Berlin Hearts Electric Smarts ---quote--- By Justin Berkowitz September 9, 2008 - 0 views Londoners know (because a fleet of almost 100 is already running): the electric Smart fortwo is an big improvement on the original. It’s economical and smooth, without...

Indeed. The current US high-jacker of the Withe House have embraced and modernized many nice socialistic values. They have modernized the former dusty soviet Gulag and brought to market a hip form of secret SS torture prison - like the one in Diego Garcia or on the many on US military vessels...

Its stunning that in a capitalistic society a honorable private company has the guts to ask hat in hand for a government bailout - not thinking of approaching a presidential candidate for getting it. When private entities shuffle profits, the cream is usually taken via financial safe havens...

communistic crap Sorry - I was (as wool dyed anti-communist) going for the big picture. GM is (not only but also for its years to late started EV Volt program) like the rest of US car / mortgage industry in dire need for money. There economically altogether today one big step ahead of the...

They are smarter indeed. And they act accordingly. Many in the US get it as well - slowly but truth is trickling down: Project Syndicate If legal framework is broken down, a western orientated democratic government acts funny like North Koreas commies Treasury set to bail out Fannie Mae...

Look - I could bet and argue with you lengthily. To cut is short. The former huge and proud US car industry is in the sewer - see: Question of the Day: $50b loans for American jobs? | The Truth About Cars There is nothing to expect / left over from the (now gone) US world leaders in car...

The Chrysler stock kept is most probably not to dig the financial hole for Daimler deeper. If Daimler sells the remaining Chrysler stock today the loss will be even more glaring and hurting both companies more than buying on hope. They gamble is only on (dwindling) hope. Its not only Daimler...

Having a agreement not having a agreement most probably. Daimlers last US adventure with Chrysler nearly brought Daimler to its knees. The Daimler shareholder (me) paid heavily for the mistake marrying a gentlemen to a bump. Daimler / Mercedes could divorce (leaving deep financial bruises all...

No wonder - Thats normal. I can send you tons of pictures showing Smart Cars without a tailpipe. Due to the arrangement of the Smart's pipe its pretty much hidden from onlookers view - no matter if in EV flavor (like the 100 cars currently as test-fleet on the London streets) nor the standard...

Wishfull thinking graham and comrades - begging for compliment, crying for consideration are not even given a look by Daimler. Fact is: The original Mercedes / Daimler press release mentions nothing in this respect - not even a hint. “e-mobility Berlin”: Daimler and RWE embarking on the age...

Dont worry - there is only one true, original Finkenbusch. The many others may be unbiased & wise men as well - this elitarian group of deep-thinkers / intellectuals is growing in a shrinking pond of uniform clapping commonly happy drowning lemmings / proletarians / claceurs - but your here...

& Ghost Seems your a knowledgeable men - chapeau!

Not sure about the range. But range is not everything. Usability is it. And keep your nice :rolleyes - you will need them when you shall see the products rolling out. Sorrily I have to tell you I cannot entertain you anymore as I have to say goodbye as I will attend a cruise ship to Tallin &...

There is always a excuse (watch the boring press releases and announcements from GM, Chrysler, Ford and comrades) but in international interconnected times excuses why not will not cut it anymore. Also not for Tesla Watch out what seasoned european & asian car producers outside the US will...

The range problem for you could be solved / decided by yourself easily. A simple good old fashioned bicycle would serve you well - and would be more appropriate to your tiny purse. There are high quality and refined bicycles in Europe on sale that cost around a new small car thought. If you...

50 years after the 1909 EV roadster one single megabyte hard disc storage had the size of a large family fridge and costed the equivalent of a midsized house. sixteen fold increase (your calculation is wide off the mark - but anyhow) in EV mobile usability over a 100 years time frame if would...

Thanks for the kind consideration & thinking of me not only all the time but serve me in advance:-) I really appreciate! Basically Tesla is working on steam already - vaporware is a kind of steam,. isn't it? There / Musk is great in that field today. Fact is - around 1900 Ev could run 60...

my shoes too please!

The streets, by the time the 1909 Baker Electric car was rolling, where not paved either. So any speed beyond 25 mph would have sent the car to the pond - a computer was science fiction then. That car drives with its original Edison batteries today What I meant is that the nowadays...

Not everybody shares your opinion punching fun at in-wheel motors - actually there are studies underway describing exactly what I meant. And guess what - the study is based on a Lotus Elise

Not bad - but I would be happy to get a battery system in the Tesla matching the durability, sturdyness and reparability of the 100 year young 1909 Baker Electric As a starter - and then a EEstore capacitor Comparing to the advances the space age and aeronautics have made in that time in...

@vfx & bobw- A second language would help to understand the big whole world outside the comparable tiny US... :-) Anyhow - shortened Its a more then positive report, a praise without hesitation on the first appearance of the Tesla on German soil - two unknown journalists (self described Guy...

You still have not got that this very tiny unimportant aspect is not the point.

Thank you for your technical valuable contribution malcom & deenko. Indeed you have mentioned some interesting points - lets see how we stand in the EV development end 2008. And how long a list of achievements will be then from Toyota (Prius), BMW, Mercedes Benz and the other contenders. I...

Its not the matter that regen is used at all or if it works till full stop but how you store / use that regained energy. - the key is that the energy is best stored to a cool capacitor (95% effectivity) and not converted (very uneconomical) into chemical energy - a battery cannot take that load...

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Maybe - you could use the supplied hand-brake in case - but thats not the point. The point is that the car uses capacitors to recuperate the kinetic energy (not changing into chemical energy and back as if a battery where in place) and has a range of 1.000 Kilometers. Kinetic energy is (very...

There are more very interesting links to the company PML Flightlink, you mentioned delivering the underlying Lightning technology. If this claims become only partly true - Tesla is looking pretty old-fashioned - especially the logical use of a battery / super-capacitor combo (used and proven as...

Concerning the price-range, there are more expensive projects underway in the US - see the Ultimate Aero EV (^click on the picture^) Dont overlook that SSC company hold still the world record for selling the world fastest production car today - and you will like, its US build. Regarding the...

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Tesla is not the ultimate navel of the EV universe - there many suns Me too - but not the plain vanilla things we know already. A Tesla looks pretty the same in Houston, Berlin or in Paris Certainly a brave concept to try to drive a car build on mobile phone batteries. But a two seater...

Today I received my official press accreditation for the fair. So rest assured - I will indeed have a good, long and hard look & talk. There will be enough time as two days before the public opening there are two exclusive press days giving enough room for pros to engage in personal contact...

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Ok - understood - I honestly have not intended to insult or hurt anyone on a personal level - If I may have so done so, sorry. Anyhow - In love, EV, & politics every trick is allowed:-) just exchanging views on facts from different sides with real men in a robust but gentlemen-like discussion...

Absolute correct. As you stated: Your a happy and as history shows a very successful pisser (Aside you forgot that the US gov open admits it spies like Stalin on its own people at home & in foreign countries alike - there all pissed) With one small addition I allow to mention: You pissed...