Well.....according to Business Insider Magazine.
Some new Tesla cars are being delivered with flaws, and owners say getting them fixed is a painful process
Crappy service and quality issues with the Model 3.....waaaaay below industry standards! First pass yield at 14%. Industry average is 80%. Reports of abusive workplace environment and bogus sales figures!
According to today's New York Post that carried a full spread story, "Insiders at Tesla say it's a shit show!"
Hmmmm.....but the climate crusaders come in here and tell us all the time that things are just swell at Tesla!!!



Teslas are a rip off and the entire electric car industry is an environmentalist's joke. Anyone who buys a car you need to plug in and recharge every 200 miles or use (if you can find a plug), is an idiot. Between the batteries and the impact of CREATING the electricity, they are no better, maybe worse than a gas car. Just kinda cool because they are quiet and have almost instantaneous power. So quiet, they need to have "noise" added so people know you are coming.
Teslas are a rip off and the entire electric car industry is an environmentalist's joke. Anyone who buys a car you need to plug in and recharge every 200 miles or use (if you can find a plug), is an idiot. Between the batteries and the impact of CREATING the electricity, they are no better, maybe worse than a gas car. Just kinda cool because they are quiet and have almost instantaneous power. So quiet, they need to have "noise" added so people know you are coming.
Just the other day on the Discovery channel, I was watching World's Best, and they showed a dragster that was electric. Damn thing was the fastest thing on the track. And, while you could hear the wheels burning rubber, that was about it. None of the loud gas noises, but the damn thing was down the track like a lightning bolt (yes, pun was intended).
Sure. Internal combustion, even a wankel rotary, can never have the efficiency / low losses of an electric motor. One moving part. No contact (except bearings). The electric car will come into its own when the electricity can finally (and affordably) be generated by a fuel cell with its only waste product being water.
A fuel cell "
with its only waste product being water." can only do that if it is using hydrogen....and hydrogen is not exactly a cheap fuel or as easy to handle as petroleum fuels.
"The electric car will come into its own when".....the answer is whenever they actually can produce the super batteries they keep saying we will have in x- years from now and the "x " year is always in the "near future".
The EMV industry knew from the start that you need something close to this super battery pie in the sky and had x+x+x... years to produce it. With our climate supposedly heading for the "tipping point" you would expect they would have made this "super battery" a top priority rather than engineering special edition EMV`s for publicity stunts like winning a meaningless drag race.
Well, as a retired electronics engineer, let me say this:
I never said the hydrogen fuel cell was cheap. That's the problem. If they can make it cost effective, now we have a party. Bring those electric cars on! Eliminate the battery storage problem and you basically have 4 electric motors and some seats---- a very cheap (and ideal) car to make.
The problem with "super batteries" is that the more "super" they are (the higher the storage density), the better a "bomb" they make-- -- in other words, explosive potential to release all that stored power at once. And beyond that, they add a lot of dead weight and become an environmental nightmare. Do you know that one of the things that goes into making a lithium ion battery is a chemical also used in the production of certain nerve gas agents? Personally, I don't like the idea of riding around sitting on a ton of batteries (and yes, I know all the ways they are working to develop making them safer). Battery disposal and recycling is a HUGE downer.
I totally agree with what you were saying and only tried to highlight some of the glaring errors made by EMV promoters and anti- combustion engine/global warming "prevention" schemes.
Consider a scenario where petro-fuelled cars are no longer allowed on American roads.
Passenger vehicles in the United States - Wikipedia
Overall, there were an estimated 263.6 million registered vehicles in the United States in 2015, most of which were passenger vehicles.
Hard to say how many hp these have on average, but assuming it`s only 120 hp would not be on the high side.
Of which they very likely use only 1/2 the power in city traffic and frequent stop&go...but where I am when the light turns green it`s a pedal to the metal drag race to position yourself in a faster moving lane. On the highway it also takes at least that much power to cruise at the posted speed limit.
Now you have to hope that on a 24 hour average only ~ 10% of all these cars (now EMVs) are on the road, because....if you can take wikipedia by their word:
Electricity sector of the United States - Wikipedia
In 2016 the total installed electricity generation summer capacity: in the United States was 1,074 Gigawatts(GW),
And that means there would be no power left for anybody else unless the US can at least double its electricity generation.