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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (13024)9/11/2006 1:35:10 PM
From: John Koligman  Read Replies (1) of 19790
 
Lizzie,

I've seen your comments asking about car info in past posts, and with all due respect I think you don't know very much about them. I'm not bashing Tesla, I and others are simply trying to tell you that the battery tech simply isn't there to make this anything more than a niche product. Your 'Whole Foods' argument doesn't hold any water, lots more folks can pay more for a bunch of asparagus than can drop six figures on a battery powered toy. By the way, I'll grant you the EV-1 was an odd looking car, but if you go back and read articles in Car and Driver from people that leased it, they liked the car and wanted to buy them. GM trashed the program because they didn't have a chance in hell of preventing it from continuing to be a significant cash drain on the firm. These firms like Tesla come and go over the years, you get small firms that try and make niche cars go, but few do it. It simply takes way too much money to design/crash/test/engineer them. Keep in mind this Tesla is basically a Lotus, and Lotus in turn has been a manufacturer in precarious straits for years.

John

PS - Don't argue about cars with me, I'm the type of ultimate motorhead that can identify a car just by seeing a small piece of it's tail lamp. <ggg>
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