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Bluesman
True, and I certainly cannot afford one. However, priced a new Buick SUV. $52,000+. And if you price other cars that have the performance and agility of the Tesla S, you will see that it is not overpriced. Just that most of us are not in that category.
I think you misunderstood....I wasn't saying that the car is overpriced...just that it's unaffordable to most of us. Which is what you are saying too.
There has to be a way to mainstream electrics. The answer is obviously in the batteries. I saw a piece on a guy that built.battery swap stations across two or three European countries, Israel. And was working on rolling it out in Austrailia to prove it could be done.on a large scale. It only takes 5 minutes to swap out the battery.
There is a catch though. Manufacturers would have to consciously decide to standardize their batteries. The guy was saying that it brought the sticker price of a 40k electric car down to the 15-17k range, and the cost to roll out the swapping stations nationwide was consistently around the same cost...about one week's worth of what that country consumes in oil.
It's an idea...but that would mean information sharing between.manufacturers...I don't think that would fly here...especially if they used Tesla's battery technology, which destroys the competition right now.