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Originally Posted by Flexin
I don't know why people compare the Telsa to a gas car. If you are looking at a Telsa you want an electric car to be green to for an electric car to beat around the city when not using your gas ride. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to other electric cars or maybe even hybirds.
James
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Because electric cars won't be marketable to the masses until they are on par with gas cars. To really gain a foothold they have to convince the general public that they are a value (or cheap enough to be fashionable for the upper middle class) to buy. Everyone I know that has a hybrid bought it as a second car or is trying to convince me that they save money on gas, which is true, until you factor in the extra 10k cost of the car vs a comparable gas model.
And if the car company and people really wanted to save on gas, VW sells a diesle in europe that gets 75mpg on a regular diesle engine. The tech is there, but car companies don't think thats what we really want.
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