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VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

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Re: VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

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When EV gets popular enough won't all petrol station install chargers too? When this happens the super charger network will not be a large advantage. The only issue I see is if each company creates it's own "super/fast" charging system and DRMs it for "security" reasons.

The best place to charge an EV is wherever the car spends the majority of its daylight hours (which for many workers will be the company parking lot). That way they can be charged directly from solar PV during the peak hours, avoiding the necessity for storing that energy anywhere else.

Unless solar panels evolve _considerably_ in efficiency, or you cover a gigantic area with panels for a single car, I believe that’s not really a viable option

Re: VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

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Which model? A couple of years ago I got an e-Golf and it's been pretty amazing. I say that as someone who owned 2 (petrol) Golfs prior. I got it cheaper than any previous Golf and it had more features too. I understand range anxiety, but the same holds (at the same price) with other marks (I've also owned a Leaf). What makes the e-Golf poorly converted and too expensive?

I don't have a specific model in mind, but as somebody else posted the e-Golf has about half the range of the Tesla. Personally, I don't like the term range anxiety, it sounds like a fighting term from the gas car industry and also doesn't take people's worries seriously. My problem is completely different: If there was no Model S, I would be totally happy with an e-car with 140 miles range. But if I can get another…

Wait - so you're basing your whole opinion on someone else's description of the range? The reduced range is partially a "where do we put the batteries" issue, but MOSTLY a price a issue. There's no way to price an e-Golf in a similar range to a 200+ mile range Tesla and not have it been $10k+ more than a regular Golf.

Saying things like "it shows to me that VW is not doing the technically possible" without ANY informed opinion is embarrassing.

edit: also, do you own any kind of electric car or are you just pontificating? Range anxiety is a real thing - literally the stress of "do I have enough electricity to get home"

Re: VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

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WTF are you talking about? Tesla buys their batteries from a third party.

They make their own cells. https://www.tesla.com/blog/battery-cell-production-begins-gi...

Is this a joke? Tesla doesn't make their own cells. They buy them from Panasonic.
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