You forgot "evacuate from a hurricane, requiring hours and hours creeping along in a traffic jam with AC blasting". No Tesla would make it. Many cars need refueling during such an event. The demise of the internal combustion engine has been predicted many times.... -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On October 11, 2016 2:47:52 PM EDT, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >Tell you what... try this, now, or in 20 years... come to Arizona and >drive >from Flagstaff to Tucson in your electric car, or.... continue on South >to >Mexico and tour Mexico with your electric car. > >Take a vacation with your family, full luggage, the dog, and drive from >your Eastern "safe zone" to California, using your electric car. > >This is America, it's big, people drive hundreds of miles per week, >always >in a rush. They don't have time or patience to "plug in and wait" nor >do >they have a place to do that. > >Utopia and Unicorns... Sorry to rain on your parade. Oil became king >because it was and is easily available. A viable replacement has not >been >invented or brought to market now or in the foreseeable future. It's >being >thought about, worked on, but it's not here any time soon. BS >legislation >won't make it happen any faster. > >I respect that your personal view may be different.. > >On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:37 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes < >mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> (From a Solar List) >> >> > Germany calling for ban on all gas/diesel cars by 2030: >> >> > http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106594_german-upper- >> house-asks-eu-to-ban-all-gas-diesel-cars-by-2030 >> >> > And if that catches on, it will be an avalanche of abandonment of >gas >> > cars. Faster than even 2030, because no one will want to buy a >dead end >> > vehicle as the deadline approaches. >> > >> > We are at the precipice of the end of gas cars. People need to >realize >> > that the EV and Plug-in Hybrid is here to stay. And they are >better, >> > faster, cleaner, cheaper to buy, cheaper to operate and cheaper to >> maintain >> > than gas cars. Its just the public is not aware of that yet. >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com