Tesla model S eliminates range anxiety

Post by Gravityloss » Tue, Aug 28, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

maigret wrote: post #130

Gravityloss wrote: post #71

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What I don't understand is why don't they put a small 20 kW 500 cc one cylinder generator in cars, at the same time they could reduce the battery size quite a lot and still most trips could be made purely electrically. Cost would be a lot lower as well. The average power needed for driving is very low, only 10-20 kW and the battery handles the peaks like when you need to climb a hill or overtake. For example in this…

"why don't they" -> Remembers me of a recent HN discussion ;) But... Actually you are not far from something. This is actually an approach from Audi: http://green.autoblog.com/2010/03/01/geneva-preview-audi-a1-... From what I read though this approach was not approved in the mother company, VW. Let's see who wins at the end.

That's very interesting, what Audi was planning! The Wankel engines are quite expensive though.

Post by joey89y » Wed, Aug 29, 2012, 1:03 PM UTC

elviejo wrote: post #116

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Elon Musk was a co-founder who had at least $70 million of his own money in Tesla. And he did found SpaceX in 2002 and has over $100 million of his own invested in the company.

Investor != Cofounder. Cofounder is someone that is there from day 1. Tesla Roadster existed before Musks's involvement. Martin Eberheard searched for Ventura Capital, one of his leads was Elon Musk. See my other reply for the links.

Tesla was really started by a small company called AC propulsion. They made the prototype roadster. Elon and Martin both approached AC separately to take the car to Mass Market but they wern't interested, so Elon and Martin teamed up. Elon financed the company and Martin ran it. However in 2008, after a series of massive mistakes, Elon had to recap the company with every penny he had and Martin was fired.

Lesson is. Corporate history is a lot like hotdogs. They have equal claim co-founder status.

Re: Tesla model S eliminates range anxiety

Re: Tesla model S eliminates range anxiety