@bradders Wireless charging is not many years away, Plus in the next few years Cars will have a range of 300 + Miles so many might only charge once or twice a week.
If you live in an inner city area you won't own a car, you will rent one and it will drive itself to your address when you need it.
@noobie I know VW were bandying a battery replacement price of £18K for the Golf, yeah that is a lot in my books and would I spend that much on an 8 yr old car, but then in 8 yrs time will the that price come down substantially?
I scrapped a 16 year old Mercedes A Class recently and the guy at the scrap yard said many cars are now economic write offs with electrical problems at about 10 years old.
Solar power packs have been around for years, sort of thing you put on a back pack. Afaik, no one I know actually rates them, at all. It will be a huge leap forward, like te sand means microchips moment, that will take either an alien intervention (cue conspiracy theorists on how we have progressed so much since the Roswell event) or hundred years; not 8 when all cars will be banned... As for sharing cars, people won’t even share their space never mind a car.
I hope so but my only concern is the major countries are targeting 2040 for ice to be removed so I just hope they do not leave cheap replacement packs till as close to that as possible or it will fail. The other concern, within the last 20 years or so, you lift up the bonnet and there seems little for the diy-er to do with just a large sheet of plastic and all modules. If electric goes forward, what will be the impact on the main dealers, independents and off shoots such as spares. A local garage could become a thing of the past with centralised service centres run by hotpoint
Read a few blogs on very high mileage Tesla 5 doors in the states. New battery pack under warranty on one of them after a few years ownership and high mileage. Cost of pack out of warranty would have been $40,000!!
Had a decent race with a GT3 turbo for about 15 miles, i am pretty sure that car out performs my mutley anyday, but returning to my previous point, the 50 year old geezer driving was left ina very embarrasing position trying to explain to the very attractive half plastic twenty someting yound lady how can the bike beat the car.
I remember a few years ago chatting with a Tesla fella and some other industry guys over dinner. It’s simply a case (as demonstrated by PCP) that they never really want you to own them. They all favour (and are scared of, btw) the Apple model of pay loads and only loan for a period of time. That way, battery replacement is not a punters issue: and if you can’t afford a new car, it works it’s way down so you ‘rent’ and old model.
“The point of doing this is to give a smack-down to gasoline cars,” said Musk at the launch. “Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche.”
Interesting article here, suggesting this announcement was to distract investors and keep funding, for what is at this momentum, a financially unsustainable business. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....a-semi-truck-roadster-2017-model-3-production
The thing that has always worried me about Musk is that he his clearly a innovator and driven man but he keeps on bringing out shiny new toys too quickly. It's almost like he keeps bringing out new sweets to distract people looking at the core of the business and it's financial, emperors new clothes if you will.
Winner. Go google Elon musk and his timeline success...he has yet to hit one big claim in 10 plus years. Great salesman tho
