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Offline TimG

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Re: Tesla New Vehicles
« Reply #30 on: November 18, 2017, 09:07:03 am »
Well, obviously it would be a non-starter if the queues were like that anyway.  The market wouldn't support this.
Well that is my point. Everyone is focused on the ghee-whiz technology of the vehicles themselves but no one is thinking about what would happen if a large number of people started to use them. Keep in mind that the ICE was clearly superior to the horse in terms of performance. convenience and, after the Model-T, cost. This meant there was a financial incentive to build out the huge fueling infrastructure we have today. OTOH, EVs offer modest performance benefits, no cost advantages and come with large inconveniences. The same financial incentive for private business will not exist for EV infrastructure which will likely need to be heavily subsidized by governments. This immediately means the chances of the EV infrastructure being built a rate sufficient to match demand is near zero.

As I said before: in countries where voters can vote out politicians that make their lives miserable, the plug-in hybrid will be the universally acceptable compromise between emissions and the convenience.
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