Forbes Article-Electric Vehicles For Dummies (PRO ICE)

[Ktowntslafan]

Let's discuss the inaccuracies in the article and I will send thread to Forbes/author.

"Battery electric vehicles are a rare case of a product which is both substantially more expensive and with significantly worse performance than the technology it is supposed to replace. The only real gain, lower emissions, are achieved at a high cost, making it inefficient from a cost-benefit perspective. Given the expense of electric vehicles, government support represents energy class warfare, and the upper classes are winning."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2015/11/18/electric-vehicles-for-dummies/

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Let's discuss the inaccuracies in the article and I will send thread to Forbes/author.

"Battery electric vehicles are a rare case of a product which is both substantially more expensive and with significantly worse performance than the technology it is supposed to replace. The only real gain, lower emissions, are achieved at a high cost, making it inefficient from a cost-benefit perspective. Given the expense of electric vehicles, government support represents energy class warfare, and the upper classes are winning."



http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2015/11/18/electric-vehicles-for-dummies/

His Bio is telling:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/

As is his previous article re:Tesla (ps: His most popular article ever):
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...a-musk-electric-vehicle-race-still-undecided/

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Author is 100% anti Tesla (since at least 2013):
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...se-of-irrational-exuberance/?partner=yahootix

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This guy needs to be shamed. Publicly shamed.

 

[jgs]

You have to give him credit for truth in advertising with his title, anyway. Though for completeness it should be "...by dummies, for dummies".

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But seriously (oh wait, I was serious), why waste your time feeding the trolls? All they want is clicks, and the article is bait.

 

[Ktowntslafan]

But seriously (oh wait, I was serious), why waste your time feeding the trolls? All they want is clicks, and the article is bait.

+ 57,264 views Lot's of "clickers" to set straight. I have a plan.

 

[jgs]

I offer "Electric Vehicles for People Who Aren't Dumb" as a working title for your magnum opus.

 

[ecarfan]

The Forbes article was likely written by someone who has never owned a quality EV or even spent a few hours driving one.
I'm not clicking through to that article.

 

[Jim MacInnes]

This article in Fortune makes more sense to me.
Tesla Veteran Explains How Electric Motors Crush Gas Engines
http://fortune.com/2015/11/17/electric-motors-crush-gas-engines/?xid=yahoo_fortune

 

[stevezzzz]

This article in Fortune makes more sense to me.
Tesla Veteran Explains How Electric Motors Crush Gas Engines
http://fortune.com/2015/11/17/electric-motors-crush-gas-engines/?xid=yahoo_fortune

Yes. Except that someone at Fortune appended a video about Toyota's fuel-cell Mirai, calling it a 'possible contender for Tesla's Model S'.

 

[Jim MacInnes]

Yes. Except that someone at Fortune appended a video about Toyota's fuel-cell Mirai, calling it a 'possible contender for Tesla's Model S'.

Not. Also the Mirari design exhibits no design elegance.

 

[jgs]

Not. Also the Mirari design exhibits no design elegance.

That is what we call "a masterpiece of understatement".

 

[CatB]

What is going on with that picture? Did they morph the MS into a Prius shape? or should I avoid milk stout (I'm so *not* a beer person, but when you go to a brewery...) and go back to white wine?

 

[Vger]

What is going on with that picture? Did they morph the MS into a Prius shape? or should I avoid milk stout (I'm so *not* a beer person, but when you go to a brewery...) and go back to white wine?

It is a Model X.

 

[CatB]

O. M. G.
No more stout for me

There, my first TMC poem.

 

[Ktowntslafan]

I offer "Electric Vehicles for People Who Aren't Dumb" as a working title for your magnum opus.

I love it!

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I'm not clicking through to that article.

You've set the tone. I was anticipating an uprising...not so.

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The author has a paltry 1500 views which is comforting.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

I'm guessing this guy got paid by an oil company... no one can be that stupid.

 

[Ktowntslafan]

This guy penned the perfect response:

Tesla Veteran Explains Why Electric Motors Crush Gas Engines - Fortune

 

[PaulusdB]

You're right. Just like post #6 in this thread.

 

[Ktowntslafan]

You're right. Just like post #6 in this thread.

My Bad! Missed that!