Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Problems with a Tesla model S

The electric car mistake  "The Obama administration’s electric-car fantasy finally may have died on the road between Newark, Del., and Milford, Conn.
The New York Times’s John M. Broder reported Friday that the Tesla Model S
 electric car he was test-driving repeatedly ran out of juice, partly because cold weather reduces the battery’s range by about 10 percent."
More here: Weekly Standard; Hit and Run Blog; Boing Boing
NYT reviewer takes Tesla on road trip, "wasn't smiling." Elon Musk: NYT review is "fake."

Price ranges of Tesla cars. The first article mentioned a price of $101,000.
That price is not among those listed here.

The Prius is the PC car in Hollywood  "Over 70 Hollywood celebrities own a Prius. Stars seen driving their green machines including Matt Damon, David Duchovny, Zachary Quinto, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Rachel Bilson, Leonardo di Caprio, Miley Cyrus, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Selma Hayek, and Sarah Michelle Geller just to name a few."  Plus any number driven by the good guys in TV shows.

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