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Shares of Tesla Motors (TSLA) slip 3.5% premarket after a New York Times article from over the...
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Monday, February 11, 8:30 AM ETShares of Tesla Motors (TSLA) slip 3.5% premarket after a New York Times article from over the weekend paints an unflattering portrait of life for an EV owner. Though it isn't news that first adopters should expect issues for cross-country trips, the news gives shorts (26.13M shares) something beefy to latch onto. Next for TSLA: A critical Q4 report.
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Re: New York Times article about EV's
Look who's calling the kettle black. A once successful newspaper now on the verge of insolvency trying to save itself by selling bad news.
As famed sports writer Grantland Rice intoned.
"When one final scorer comes to mark against your name, he asks not whether you won or lost but how you played the game:.
Nuff sed,
Vico Confino
You appear not to be watching the "sea change" in car driving attitudes.
Tesla is a game changer! Watch as Tesla takes hold in Europe and china!
Batteries still take too long to charge and don't hold enough energy.
It's that simple.
And there is no battery technology on the horizon that will change this for at least a decade, likely much longer.
D
In fact dozens of solutions are hitting the market at all angles.
I suspect the naysayers are hardly as informed as they presume themselves to be.
http://engt.co/WL4uKx
"There's no shortage of attempts to build a better battery, usually with a few caveats. USC may have ticked all the right checkboxes with its latest discovery, however. Its use of porous, flexible silicon nanowires for the anodes in a lithium-ion battery delivers the high capacity, fast recharging and low costs that come with silicon, but without the fragility of earlier attempts relying on simpler silicon plates. In practice, the battery could deliver the best of all worlds. Triple the capacity of today's batteries? Full recharges in 10 minutes? More than 2,000 charging cycles? Check. It all sounds a bit fantastical, but USC does see real-world use on the horizon.
Researchers estimate that there should be products with silicon-equipped lithium-ion packs inside of two to three years, which isn't long to wait if the invention saves us from constantly hunting for the nearest wall outlet."
When I crossed Nevada on US 50, I found out that there aren't many town out there. It's billed as the "loneliest road in America" and I believe it. So whenever I found a town, I checked my fuel and filled up if it were necessary.
So let it be with electric cars. Oh, and combine fuel and food stops, then you won't feel you're wasting time filling up your car.