RE: Tesla Model S Revealed

[herewego]

CDP said:

Oil comes from minute fossillised sea creatures. This implies minute sea creatures probably contains energy. If you could efficiently gather them up it would avoid all this waiting around for it to turn into oil.

Actually don't whales perform this collection duty for us? How much oil can we get out of a whale?

I know you're only joking. There may be around a million whales which if we killed them all at once might oil us for a few hours, certainly less than half a day and then we'd have no whales. What's next on the kill list?

Edited by herewego on Tuesday 31st March 09:04

[XitUp]

herewego said:

I know you're only joking. There may be around a million whales which if we killed themm all at once might oil us for a few hours, certainly less than half a day and then we'd have no whales. What's next on the kill list?

Yup, if you're looking in the sea for a fuel source algae would be a better choice than whales.

[CDP]

herewego said:

CDP said:

Oil comes from minute fossillised sea creatures. This implies minute sea creatures probably contains energy. If you could efficiently gather them up it would avoid all this waiting around for it to turn into oil.

Actually don't whales perform this collection duty for us? How much oil can we get out of a whale?

I know you're only joking. There may be around a million whales which if we killed themm all at once might oil us for a few hours, certainly less than half a day and then we'd have no whales. What's next on the kill list?

How much fuel would we get from Parliament, The Lords and (most importantly) Brussels?

John Prescott's got to be worth a few minutes?

[Horse_Apple]

speedychrissie said:

"Apparently technicians will be able to swap power packs in 6-8 minutes, which Tesla says is quicker than filling a car with petrol."

where does it take 8 minutes to fill a car with petrol! that is a ridiculous statement.

the car however does look viable.

Not at all. 3 minutes to fill up the car and then 5 minutes to fill youself up with glazed donuts and 5L of Coke. I see 8 minutes as optimistic when you consider the punter has to waddle too and from the counter and also crowbar his slop back into the car.

Also, this type of vehicle is exactly why the Govt will introduce new road taxing systems. Once we start to significantly move away from paying taxation via petrol then there has to be a system to replace the lost revenue.

[anonymous-user]

None of the claims made it in to mainstream production. Charging takes 1 hour, not 8 minutes, and it costs waaaay more than under $50000.... have to say it does look nice but not as nice as the prototype.