Comments on: Electric Luxury SUV that Accelerates to 60 MPH in 4.4 Seconds. Meet the Model X.

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:26:00 +0000

HeroesAh Yes! and the American
Dream lifestyle complete with McMansions and SUV’s, two of them in
every driveway, will continue throughout the millennium as the very
height of civilized mankind and no further progress than the
electrification of this reality away from fossil fuels and into LFTR
reactors fed with Thorium for safety’s sake will be needed. God will
soon provide all the rain our fields and reservoirs require, and we
will prosper, fully drug addicted, drunken, and moral free, in his
Gardens, forever. We the “Chosen Ones” will war and murder
down through the ages for the wealth of others, the Lord will provide
us, and we will become Giants in the land. It is our birthright, and
will be so by the power vested to us by the threat of a nuclear
holocaust on others before they can hurt us, in pre-emptive fashion.
We have even peeped behind the Moon, and saw no God! Searched Mars
for his footprints and saw none! We have even peeped into the
particles and saw no God! We have even peeped into the DNA of life,
and created our own! We have become the Gods! We are the Gods! Fear
us! Obey us! or Nagasaki’s fate will be yours! Hiroshima’s Hell
will fall on your heads! This is the first book of the new Bible.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:59:00 +0000

Oh, for pete’s sake. Are you posting from 1970? Sleep through the years when all these questions were asked and answered?

Quick catch-up for you…

We have plenty of off-peak generation to charge over 200 million electric cars. Even to the extent we power EVs with fossil fuel electricity we will use less fossil fuels due to systems efficiency.

Your Obama stuff is junk. Tell Karl you failed on that one.

We are in the transition away from fossil fuels. We’ll bring renewables on line faster than EVs appear.

We know what is in the batteries. Different stuff, depending on the individual battery chemistry.

We NEED about the same amount of plastics for EVs as for gasmobiles.

When EV batteries fall to about 80% capacity and it’s time to swap them out they are almost certainly going to utilities for grid storage. Those programs are being set up.

When battery capacity falls below the point of usability for utilities they will be recycled. Recycling is already in place.

(Is that you, Peterson?)

By: Patysteward

Patysteward — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Learning………… : )

By: Patysteward

Patysteward — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:40:00 +0000

I’m sure that like the past when we invented electricity, cars….the Industrial Revolution…and the like…it is all a process…with continued learing….but, we know so much more how we effect our environment….and are trying to work in a positive way to meet what we want our future needs to be and the best way possible to do so…….just some things to think about, too!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:36:00 +0000

& some answers/responses to think about:
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/18/electric-vehicles-greenhouse-gas-emissions-save-money/
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/20/are-electric-cars-green/

i’m all for bikes and mass transit over cars of any type, but i know a lot of folks aren’t, and it’s clear electric is the way to go.

By: Dondepalma

Dondepalma — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:00 +0000

The product must meet customer expectations. We like to move foreward, get better at things. Make things better.
NO ONE WANT’S A CAR THAT GOES 0-60 IN 30 MINUTES.
You have got to be realistic in your attitude.
Keep in mind that if everyone starts plugging in we will need more power, that means burning more natural gas, more coal, and or more nuclear plants. That means a proper grid.
That being said, Obama promised that “under my plan elictricity rates will neccesaraly sky rocket”
It really is a shift from one fossel fuel to another, that Obama want’s to raise the cost of.
Gas powered car or electric, either way you WILL be burning fossel fuel, gasoline, coal, or natural gas.
Do you have any idea how much oil and other fossel fuels are used to produce the batteries?
Do you know what is in the batteries?
Do you realize how much oil is used for the plastics NEEDED to make these “green” electric cars?
Do you know waht we are going to do with these bateries when they wear out?
Just some things to think about.

By: Muchos Huevos

Muchos Huevos — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:06:00 +0000

To 60 MPS should be scrapped off the the books and old timer minds, that sh.. belongs to the times when gas was 25-30 cents a gallon, TODAY I do not care if it takea 30 minutes to get to 60, we need electric cars that would at least run at 50% what the REAL Dr Tesla Pierce Arrow might have done.

A NORMAL size car, gettimg power FROM THE AIR, so to speak.
Let’s see how long it’s going to take for somebody to come up with his thechnique to replicate his feat.