Steve -
sure, I ordered a few in different colors ;-) No, seriously, the price
of a Model S is about 80,000 EUR ( ~ 100,000 $ ), this is much more than
I earn in a year. And I don't own a garage where I could recharge it. I
don't even own a house, we have rented an apartment in the city.
But I already use electric vehicles, public transport and subway work
with electric trains, and car sharing services offer more and more
electric cars as well. I think this is the future, high-speed rails
between cities, and electric car sharing inside, at least for the big
mega cities like LA and NY in the US, or London, Paris and Berlin in Europe.
-J.
On 10/31/2013 10:37 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Jochen -
Have you bought yours yet? In Colorado, the tax incentives a few
years ago created huge effective discounts... something like 40% of
the vehicle cost was recovered in tax breaks.
I'm a member of a local EV enthusiasts group and there definitely
isn't one in that crowd... there IS a Nissan Leaf and a whole host of
DIY conversions, but nobody with the funding for something like the
Tesla. One of the guys has a DeLorean he plans to convert. Me I'm a
VW Cabriolet (nod to German Engineering) kinda guy.
If our major source of electricity is coal, it is likely from the
Kaipowaritz plant in NW AZ... they have been digging coal and sluicing
it 100 miles from the middle of the Navajo Rez for 40 years or
more... a (Navajo) friend of mine was studying the problems with the
aquifer that came with that sluicing 30 years ago while I was helping
with the investigation of the corruption in the McDonald
administration on the Rez. Nothing changes.
We have a lot of natural gas in NM, but apparently we don't have the
power plants? We *are* a small state with a limited heating as well
as cooling season (even our deserts have late start/early end summers
and our mountains warm days in spring and autumn).
- Steve
Tesla Motors has a nice map which state uses what kind of energy,
California depends mostly on Gas, while New Mexico uses mostly Coal.
Anyone driving a Tesla Model S in Santa Fe already?
http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#electricity
-J.
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