Elon Musk will be remembered as the John Delorean of our age. Nothing more than a con man selling a pipe dream to the gullible.
I'm glad that people are finally seeing through the hype about Tesla. The biggest problem with tesla cars above and beyond the build quality and business issues is that they suffer the same problems of all battery electric cars over the last 120 years and that is the problem of limited range and battery weight.
It comes down to the simple principles of physics and chemistry that prove a battery/ electric car will always be inferior to a hydrocarbon powered car. Put simply, weight for weight there is and always will be far more energy stored in 1kg of hydrocarbon versus 1kg of battery. And battery technology is already almost as good as it is ever going to get.
The electric car is a technological dead end. It should have been left where it was, abandoned as a viable means of transport back in the early years of the 20th Century.
I'm glad that people are finally seeing through the hype about Tesla. The biggest problem with tesla cars above and beyond the build quality and business issues is that they suffer the same problems of all battery electric cars over the last 120 years and that is the problem of limited range and battery weight.
It comes down to the simple principles of physics and chemistry that prove a battery/ electric car will always be inferior to a hydrocarbon powered car. Put simply, weight for weight there is and always will be far more energy stored in 1kg of hydrocarbon versus 1kg of battery. And battery technology is already almost as good as it is ever going to get.
The electric car is a technological dead end. It should have been left where it was, abandoned as a viable means of transport back in the early years of the 20th Century.