"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
09/23/2018 at 11:05 • Filed to: None
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"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
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I have yet to own an electric car. But when the day comes that I do, it will likely be a Tesla.
Before Tesla, the auto industry’s approach to BEVs was to make them as cheap as possible, even if that meant half-assing them by basing them on platforms meant for conventional vehicles with undersized battery packs that didn’t have proper liquid cooling.
When the Model S debuted, Tesla showed the world how great BEVs could really be when you design one without compromises.
When the Model S came out, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :
And the Model S has only gotten better since then.
Of course this resulted in the rest of the auto industry as well as the oil industry getting really scared. And it made current owners of non-Tesla BEVs jealous and uncool.
So we have an ongoing thing with anti-Tesla hate that used to be reserved for the Toyota Prius.
I don’t have a thing against dealers, the rest of the auto industry, the oil industry or owners of non-Tesla BEVs... hell I know people who own them and I myself continue to drive a gasoline powered vehicle.
But there is definitely a morally bankrupt disinformation campaign against Tesla by those who feel threatened by it in some fashion.
Tesla has been a very healthy thing for the auto industry. It’s not what the industry wanted... but it’s the bitter medicine the industry needed.
They brought something genuinely new to the table (just like Toyota did nearly 2 decades ago with the Prius), they showed how everyone how to solve the infrastructure issue in a fairly cost effective way, and to everyone’s benefit, their BEVs basically killed any hope of mass adoption of the hydrogen car... which would have been an expensive and comparatively inefficient/inferior boondoggle that would have cost everyone dearly.
Go Tesla!!!
bhtooefr
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
09/23/2018 at 13:03 |
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Oh, don’t worry, there’s some automakers that are desperately trying to continue their investment in the hydrogen boondoggle, and some fossil fuel companies standing in the shadows knowing that they’ll profit from it if it takes much hold.
(So far, it is not taking much hold, but you have organizations like the ACO convinced that it’s the future of motorsport, now...)
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> bhtooefr
09/23/2018 at 13:33 |
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The thing is... IF the oil industry stepped up and invested in hydrogen fueling infrastructure the way Tesla is investing in charging infrastructure, there’s a chance that it *could* become somewhat viable.
But they’re not stepping up and seem to be waiting for governments to pay for it.
Which is to say it’s not happening in any meaningful way.
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> bhtooefr
09/23/2018 at 13:48 |
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Also, when it comes to the hydrogen version of the Clarity and the Mirai, the production volumes are so low on a global basis that they’re just empty PR exercises in my view.
The FCX Clarity has been “in production” since 2008... which is to say from 2008 to 2014, a total of 46 were built and leased (but not actually sold) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Clarity#History
LOL
And the “higher volume” 2nd gen Clarity is higher volume by virtue of the fact there is a BEV and hybrid version in addition to the hydrogen version. Though I can’t find any actual sales numbers for the hydrogen version of the Clarity.
The Mirai is easier to get numbers for... and if US sales are anything to go by, it’s a friggin’ joke. People slam Tesla for the slow Model 3 ramp up. But compared to how long things have dragged out with hydrogen cars, Musk and the people at Tesla are production geniuses when it comes to ramping up production of ZEVs.