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Originally Posted by fielderLS3
How is a 45 minute quick charge to get another 20 miles a big improvement? My current method of getting an extra 20 miles (pumping 5/8 of a gallon of gas) takes 4 seconds if the pump I stop at is slow.
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I don't believe the idea of the Tesla vehicles is to take on long drives. Everyone in this thread seems to think that people who buy Tesla's are intending to do cross-country trips and how it would be such a worthless car.
Your Rear-Wheel-Drive LS3 Camaro's are not meant to be driven on icy or non-plowed snow roads. Even in studded snow tires you're just going to sit there and spin all day. Your Camaro is not designed to be a silent operating vehicle, your camaro is not designed to reach 30+ mpg combined EPA fuel ratings.
So therefore, someone could make the equivalent argument (to the ones being raised in this thread) that:
- The Camaro is worthless in snowy or icy conditions and a 2nd vehicle would have to be purchased if you wish to drive in these conditions
- The engine noise would disturb neighbors particularly in city streets. Since X% of the USA lives in a city, it is impractical to be driving around waking everyone up in the middle of the night
- With cost of fuels and emissions becoming more important to the average consumer, it is impractical to have a vehicle that gets 16C/24H mpgs.
In short, slamming Tesla for not creating a vehicle that can go 500+ miles on brief fillups is outside of the scope of the vehicle. The vehicle is designed for 0% tailpipe emissions and is designed to meet and exceed the average range of daily driving. According to the EPA, we drive 10,500 miles a year (
http://www.epa.gov/oms/climate/420f05004.htm) which after dividing by 365 we see about 29 miles a day.
Assuming that due to a huge marketing ploy, and for argument's sake the Tesla vehicles can only see 1/3 of what is advertised, they are able to reach 100 miles per day. That's still over 3x the amount that the average American drives a day.
So, to slam Tesla for not making a vehicle that is marketable to the average consumer at $50k? That's an unfounded opinion.