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Tesla Motors: Another Elon Musk enterprise, Another of the SpaceX founder's investments
crabbsaline
post Jul 10 2006, 11:57 AM
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I'm not sure when the countdown page went up, but looks like the first peek will come on July 20:



Random thoughts:
  • I wonder how similar the batteries are to those used on the MERs.
  • I wonder what the replacement costs of the batteries will be.
  • I wonder what the best disposal of the batteries will be.
  • I wonder when they will reach a price range that I can purchase one. biggrin.gif
As a related matter, check out the competition:



I'm glad that Doug has this chat section. This seems far enough from the subject matter of UMSF that I worried about posting it. Five degrees of separation on this topic, I suppose...UMSF : Launch Vehicles : Falcon : Elon Musk : Tesla Motors.
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djellison
post Jul 11 2006, 09:27 AM
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The real advance will be the electric car using fuel cells. GM have one working already that produces so much power you don't plug it into yoru house....you could plug your house into IT. Just fill it with Hydrogen at the station, and it pulls the Oxygen from the atmosphere to do the fuel-cell reaction ( not burning ) and thus you have range, zero emissions etc.

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- crabbsaline   Tesla Motors: Another Elon Musk enterprise   Jul 10 2006, 11:57 AM
- - Cugel   Well, I have an electrical car myself. A Toyota Pr...   Jul 10 2006, 01:04 PM
- - DonPMitchell   If you factor in the efficiency of generating and ...   Jul 10 2006, 08:01 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jul 10 2006, 08:01 ...   Jul 10 2006, 09:54 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 10 2006, 10...   Jul 10 2006, 10:57 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (helvick @ Jul 11 2006, 12:57 AM) C...   Jul 11 2006, 06:09 AM
|- - DonPMitchell   Helvick makes the good point that power plants can...   Jul 11 2006, 08:53 AM
- - crabbsaline   Part of the beauty of it is the flexibility of cho...   Jul 11 2006, 12:39 AM
- - djellison   The real advance will be the electric car using fu...   Jul 11 2006, 09:27 AM
- - edstrick   What we want is cars that run off zero-point energ...   Jul 11 2006, 09:55 AM
|- - MizarKey   QUOTE (edstrick @ Jul 11 2006, 02:55 AM) ...   Jul 11 2006, 06:54 PM
- - jrdahlman   Carefull... any debate over alternative energy cou...   Jul 11 2006, 04:35 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (jrdahlman @ Jul 11 2006, 05:35 PM)...   Jul 11 2006, 06:08 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (helvick @ Jul 11 2006, 06:08 PM) F...   Jul 12 2006, 10:36 AM
- - jrdahlman   Edit: I should have said I've been raving abou...   Jul 11 2006, 04:48 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   as edstrick says, hydrogen is not an energy source...   Jul 11 2006, 05:32 PM
- - djellison   Get this - on a trip to Coniston a few weeks back....   Jul 12 2006, 10:48 AM
- - jamescanvin   In Sydney we can go one better. Solar powered ...   Jul 12 2006, 11:02 AM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jul 12 2006, 04:02 A...   Jul 13 2006, 10:49 AM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jul 13 2006, 08:49 ...   Jul 14 2006, 01:46 AM
- - crabbsaline   The car was unveiled at Midnight, California time:...   Jul 20 2006, 07:37 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   Hmmm... Yes, nice car for car lovers. The probl...   Jul 20 2006, 08:24 AM
- - crabbsaline   Richard, I've thought about solar panels. Th...   Jul 20 2006, 01:44 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (crabbsaline @ Jul 20 2006, 01:44 P...   Jul 20 2006, 03:42 PM
- - djellison   It might make sense if you could have an intellige...   Jul 20 2006, 04:08 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 20 2006, 05:08 PM)...   Jul 20 2006, 05:40 PM
- - djellison   I didn't say it made financial sense Doug   Jul 20 2006, 07:04 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 20 2006, 08:04 PM)...   Jul 20 2006, 07:52 PM
- - crabbsaline   Looks like cost will be around $100,000: CBS...   Jul 25 2006, 01:05 AM

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