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Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers

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Re: Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers

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Post by toomuchtodo »

oinksoft wrote: post #162
toomuchtodo wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I offset the carbon emissions through Terrapass ( http://www.terrapass.com/ ). It's not perfect, I know, but I can't afford a Tesla at the moment without liquidating my TSLA stock. Total cost to offset ~2 metric tons of CO2: ~$20 ( http://www.terrapass.com/shop/ )

That's an interesting service, it makes me wonder what other indulgence-style businesses could exist for wealthy people ... +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Name | Qty. | Price | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Littering | 1 | $6.95 | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Water lawn in drought | 1 | $34.95 | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Let's do this mega-trip |…

Since when are services built on sound science "indulgence-style"? It wasn't like I drove to Florida on a vacation; I was taking care of a family member. I'm not supposed to go because I'm releasing ~2 tons of carbon? Bah.

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Post by gregpilling »

According to this http://www.thetruckersreport.com/infographics/cost-of-trucki... the average semi truck driver spends $70,000 a year on fuel. I have to wonder how this could change with a big rig sized version of the Supercharger stations. Nationwide trucking with (basically) free fuel.

The trucks could hold a lot more batteries.

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Post by ajcarpy2005 »

These superchargers are great but I think in many cases it would be more practical to fully charge overnight at a hotel. (not sure how likely a hotel would be to accomodate this) Hopefully hotels begin to build-out electric outlet access for some of their parking spaces. The beauty of charging overnight is you don't need to buy a special charger so the infrastructure would be relatively inexpensive.

Imagine if you could simply rent a fuel-cell (hydrogen?) for long trips and connect it in the trunk... Or even just renting extra batteries. (although quite heavy and inconvenient to carry)

I'm fully convinced electric cars are a big component in tje future of transportation but there are many challenges to solve. Also ET3/hyperloop seems promising.

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Post by ajcarpy2005 »

latj wrote: post #115
abalone wrote: post #100

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There's one more factor: driving speed. To get more energy efficiency on long trips, it often makes sense to drive the model s around 50-55mph rather than 65+. So if you average 10mph slower over 2800 miles, that's an additional 8 hours of driving time on top of the charging time. See comments here for a recent cross-country trip. Where the driver notes his average speed it's around 50-55mph. http://www.teslamotors.c…

There's one more factor: Dont I have to do a mandatory roundtrip so that I can return the individual batteries to Tesla? Thats the way their battery swap program works at the moment.

Speculative: if Elon Musk's hyperloop vision happens, batteries could be loaded into pods and shipped most of their journey that way.

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Post by oinksoft »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #171
oinksoft wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting service, it makes me wonder what other indulgence-style businesses could exist for wealthy people ... +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Name | Qty. | Price | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Littering | 1 | $6.95 | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Water lawn in drought | 1 | $34.95 | +--------------------------+------+--------+ | Let's do this mega-trip |…

Since when are services built on sound science "indulgence-style"? It wasn't like I drove to Florida on a vacation; I was taking care of a family member. I'm not supposed to go because I'm releasing ~2 tons of carbon? Bah.

There's nothing wrong with driving far distances, it's just that money negating pollution is silly to me, as incongruent as a tithe forgiving sins. You can't just wring automobile emissions out of the sky, and a donation doesn't change the fact that the extra car on the road causes other cars to slow, producing more emissions, increasing demand for road infrastructure and such.
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