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Originally Posted by DGthe3
So, Nissan making an electric commuter car is proof that Tesla has motivated the entire auto industry to manufacture electric sports cars?
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Sigh...I guess I do have to prove you wrong.
No, Tesla didn't motivate anybody to make electric
sports cars, they motivated them to make electric cars. Why is the Leaf coming to the US? Why, clearly to complete with the Volt and ride this new wave of electric cars. Why is the Volt coming to the US? Thanks to Bob Lutz. And what motivated Bob Lutz? Here is an article from December of 2007, in which I quote,
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The turning point came when tiny Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up, announced in 2006 that it would produce a speedy electric sports car powered by those same laptop batteries. "That tore it for me," says Lutz. "If some Silicon Valley start-up can solve this equation, no one is going to tell me anymore that it's unfeasible."
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http://www.newsweek.com/2007/12/22/b...ctric-car.html
So, you were saying?
Oh, and here's another quote in case you're not convinced
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In an August 2009 edition of The New Yorker, Lutz was quoted as saying, "All the geniuses here at General Motors kept saying lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with us -- and boom, along comes Tesla. So I said, 'How come some tiny little California startup, run by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this, and we can't?' That was the crowbar that helped break up the log jam."
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That's straight from the electric car wiki page, I just can't access the New Yorker because I'm not a member