Elon Musk insists Gigafactory's ALL GO as China charging fears hit Tesla shares Tesla Motors is downsizing its Chinese operations, following its failure to meet expected sales targets. Chinese Tesla spokesman Gary Tao has been quoted confirming that Tesla was making "structural changes" to its business in China "to better respond to the Chinese market." A Tesla representative told The Register today that …
Electric cars are great for traffic jams because they aren't wasting energy (aside from the AC) or spewing noxious fumes out the back. Granted, the electricity to power them will spew noxious fumes, but large power plants are more than twice as efficient as automobile engines, and it is a lot easier and cheaper to contain/control the pollution at a few thousand large sources versus tens of millions of small ones.
If all the cars in a traffic jam were electric you wouldn't need the AC at all a lot of the time, because you could just open your windows!
Gigafactory up and running and producing lots of Li-ion batteries in 2020? Better hurry up:
Interesting article on physorg last week...
Model X delays are not going to help Tesla in the long run. They had a spat of goodwill running with them once the model S turned out to be a decent car, but if they wait too long to release the next big attention getting "look at me being green' vehicle on the market people might have moved on already. I highly doubt Tesla is going to meet even half its intended output in 2020.
Model X delays are not going to help Tesla in the long run. They had a spat of goodwill running with them once the model S turned out to be a decent car...
Yeah, plus I really, really want one... and will probably continue to want after they are available given the expected price. If they can get this one out the door, though, they will almost certainly have good sales given America's love of bigger vehicles.
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