Clarkson to testdrive the tesla sports car

agent_orange_2

On tonights topgear, Jeremy Clarkson will be test driving the Tesla electric sports car.
Should be interesting, bearing in mind motor mouth's opinion on electric vehicles.
Apparently this sports car can do 0-60mph in under 4 secs.

chuckles1066

220 miles range before a recharge.

No good now; in ten years time when anywhere and everywhere have recharging points then it's a winner.

That's the sticking point, it's years ahead of current technology :mad:

agent_orange_2

Chuckles, the price could be another sticking point.

absoluteutopia

What a dog

geordie_joe

chuckles1066 wrote: »

No good now; in ten years time when anywhere and everywhere have recharging points then it's a winner.

I doubt it, you would still have to generate the electricity, and that is the sticking point!

In ten years every filling station will have a hydrogen pump.

chuckles1066 wrote: »

That's the sticking point, it's years ahead of current technology :mad:

How can it be years ahead of current technology? It's here now

Surely if it was "years ahead of current technology" it would not be possible to build it?

globalds

I have a cunning way to make this possible ..And am prepared to share it with the world .
If the battery packs were standardised for all electric vehicles and were removable.Then every present petrol station could be turned into a battery changing point.
As you ran low you would pull in and a guy with a pallet truck would disconnect and remove the low battery and replace with a full one.
This battery would then be checked and recharged.
Ten quid a tank gives a fiver for the electricity and another fiver to the service station and that gets you a viable system in a few years ... and no issues with replacing 6000 laptop batteries every 2 years.

geordie_joe

globalds wrote: »

I have a cunning way to make this possible ..And am prepared to share it with the world .

I am going to steal this cunning idea and sell it to the calor gas suppliers.

Just buy a bottle of gas, when it is empty take it back and replace it for a full one!

Man am I going to be rich!

globalds

geordie_joe wrote: »

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Just buy a bottle of gas, when it is empty take it back and replace it for a full one!

Man am I going to be rich!

Deep down I just knew I did not have a unique idea inside me ....

izzzzythedog

ummmmmm

ok hows about cars getting charged by the road they travel along ? scaletrix stylie ? just a thought

another thought is automated changing of batteries and standardisation of all battery packs

liner dyno motors incorporated into the design to capture airflow and create a return of energies used , in other words the drag of the car creates elec but without effecting its mur factor ( co-efficient factor of friction )

another thing springs to mind and thats the national grids at melting point and simply would not cope with even a small % of the current cars in this country plugged in , it would go into melt down
another tiny little point is my nearest plug to the car is between say 10 foot and 300 foot depending on where i get to park on a daily basis , the vast majority of cars in this country do not have access to a plug at all so therefore unless a radical change in car usage came about elec cars are a waste of time

as for hydrogen then yeah fantastic , as the oil runs out we will all be battering around in these for sure except of course we wont as the plastics in a car come from what ? oil ............... so when the oil runs out were still stuck probably regressing down the technological stages to living on a local level not international , growing our food ( ohhh !!!!!! way too many people in the country now , thanks for the immigration labour , thought that one through well didnt you ) and craftsman creating necessity's out of woods and metals ( no wait what crafts , its a service industry now without a manufacturing base so no skills to sustain this idea ) with the world shrinking into a turn of the industrial revolution substance

Lotus-eater

geordie_joe wrote: »

I am going to steal this cunning idea and sell it to the calor gas suppliers.

Just buy a bottle of gas, when it is empty take it back and replace it for a full one!

Man am I going to be rich!

Difference is, that you can reuse the gas bottles for ever, the batteries have to be replaced ever so often and cost a fortune. Who is going to want to risk being stuck with a load of old worthless battery packs?

Ken68

How about everybody get rid of their cars, and use public transport. Let the train take the strain.