Tesla to cut thousands of jobs as Elon Musk warns the ‘road ahead is very difficult’

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But if you're generating electricity with a diesel, aren't you driving a diesel with reduced efficiency?

Yup but that's the price to be paid until there are enough permanent charging stations in the less traveled areas. Gasoline used to be delivered by horse drawn cart 100 years ago. The Petes of the world back then would have argued that that was proof that horses were better
 

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Why would anyone buy an ICE engine when they will stop making them in the next 10 years?

There will be no parts for them.
 

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Why would anyone buy an ICE engine when they will stop making them in the next 10 years?

There will be no parts for them.
Auto wrecker , simple . Have you got rid of your internal combustion engine yet ?
 

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Why would anyone buy an ICE engine when they will stop making them in the next 10 years?
There will be no parts for them.
I can walk into an autoparts store and buy brake shoes for a 62 Impala. Why do they still sell brakes for a 62?
 

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I can walk into an autoparts store and buy brake shoes for a 62 Impala. Why do they still sell brakes for a 62?
Try getting a speedo cable. The parts have been manufactured rather than a wrecker is the place to go as you have to rebuild things you get from there.

They only have to stop making one part to make the whole machine useless. How many other cars would those brake shoes would they fit.

Drum brakes could have been made modular (by now) rather that just being a bit too complicated to change in the driveway. Cheap, last a long time and short of what a race car needs.
 

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This is from your post rather than mine. looks like a fag asking to screw another man's asshole really.

Do you have a better explanation? (and what does it have to do with electric cars??)


'If you want to get a rise out of me, bend over.'
 

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Wouldn't you want your first time to be with a perfect asshole in every way, shape and form like Putz?
 
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MHz

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That would be you in your world, I'm quite happy paying attention to the few women that come wandering into and out of my little corner of the world. Start a thread about fags if you like, I'll be along as soon as I develop some interest in what you dream about (most of the time).


Why not have a stand and use the wheels spinning to charge the battery at home (or charging station) rather than having an expensive charger. How fast will the batteries charge??

 

MHz

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30kmp for the beginning and 5kph for the last hour would solve that issue. The 'quest' is to charge the batteries when you live in the 'bush' or the power goes out at home. An air impact could also spin a wheel that is in the air. It may take some time, even a weight lifted and used to spin the wheel would wold. Lifting the weigh is a different story.
If a 'wheel' could be used 'off-grid' then more units could be sold and that should bring the price down. 6B brush-less motors rather than 6M in the next decade. All being charged by power coming from a central generator is as stable as Montreal after a big ice-storm has felled a few 100 miles of towers that carry the power.
Plug it in at home to run the house when the grid is off-line.