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Not a comment regarding this podcast, but just noticed that Elon Musk is a guest on Late Night with David Letterman this Wed. at 11:35 PM.
I don't recall ever seeing him on a network show before. Worth a watch.
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Here are some photos of the Tesla Charger Event.
http://singlelens.net/tesla/index.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36562487@N07/sets/72157617272825703/
Fred
Ryan,
Perhaps you were thinking of the Pontiac Solstice
http://z.about.com/d/cars/1/0/I/S/2007_pontiac_solstice_gxp.jpgIt is a very cool looking car and was engineered to be made profitably in low volume.
The Chysler crossfire is herehttp://www.dragtimes.com/images/13862-2005-Chrysler-Crossfire.jpgToo bad both vehicles will likely no longer produced soon.
LaterJohn C. Briggs
Thank you Fred, for the in-ride interview and the, uh, interesting inserted commentary- well done and very funny! It was cool to see so many Teslas at one place- so many other EV' s as well- the converted Prius, the RAV EV, the NMG even- all that was missing was George and his Tango to fill out the dance card;-)
I hope Norway does go all EV for new cars in 2015- it will never happen, but it would be a boon to Th!nk and spur a new industry for Norway- after all, they could use some diversity in their economy- I mean, once the Opera Season is over, sales of Viking helmets just plummet, Bo!
Well, sorry guys but plug-in vehicles are a total scam. This guy completely lays it all out and explains why. You can't argue with that now, can you? http://seekingalpha.com/article/133466-the-plug-in-vehicle-scam
Sure I can- any forecast longer than 3 years is worthless- technology marches on- China is on the Case and they can get things to market about 5 times as fast as we can.
To our Guest- I am sorry Mr Peterson thinks EV's are a scam- which is too bad- such name-calling to discredit EV's is both inaccurate and renders what facts he does present as useless, as any resonable discussion has already been degraded by his misdirected analogies. And to compare Ev's to the Cardif Giant? That was a hoax, made up, and used for show. EV's are a real technology, are backed by real companies and can provide one of what will hopefully be many solutions to our dependance on oil, our lagging economic development, and the way we have been polluting the world we live in. I suppose your solution would be to continue on the same path we have always traveled- to stay with the status quo? This type of advice sounds like it comes from the same company who suggests that EV's produce more polution then ICE vehicles.
I do not discount the projections from Mr Peterson's site- they are from credible sources, and may even come to pass- and will if most others are of your limited mindset. However, they are called projections for a reason. Projections, like weather forecasts, can change with new data. In this case, the new data can show up in the form of political and national will, consumer education, and emphasized R&D. I also believe that when Asia alone puts several hundred MILLION more ICE vehicles on the road, that gas prices will irrevocably go back up, and the new data of gas in this country reaching 8$ per gallon in a few years will suddenly make EV Batteries, and EV's in general, very cost effective.
I have been to Mr Petersons site before, and I agree somewhat with one of his earlier articles concerning the lack of attention given to other battery technologies that are not Li-Ion. But he seems extreme in his views, and does not take into account both the changes that are posible, and the changes that are going to be needed, for our country's energy, economic and transportation future.
Mr. Peterson has an entertaining piece that is somewhat supported by government data. I wish I could right as well as he does. Let me try to respond to some of this data and rhetoric.
Let's deal with the EIA report. I was looking in supplemental table 57 "Light-Duty Vehicle sales by technology type". This shows Electric Vehicle sales of 53 vehicles in 2009. Then they predict this will increase to 117 vehicles/year in 2030. How do you justify such a prediction? It seems like Tesla is likely to produce 1000 vehicles this year and Mini will produce something like 800 e-Mini’s. So I don’t see this as a great prediction.
The nice thing about EIA is that they have been forced to make predictions for a long time. So let’s look back at their year 2000 report. In that report, the predicted 100,000 EV’s per year in 2010. Hmm that does seem to match their current prediction of 61 EV’s per year in 2010. So I don’t think their ability to predict is that good.
