Tesla Car

Hi
With gas prices near$4.00per gal. it's driving (pun intended) me insane.I drive 30,000miles per year,which put me at $5000per year.
The Tesla car www.teslamotors.com costs 2cents per mile to drive.This car is awsome www.jaylenosgarage.com...
Why can't someone make a cheap version of this car and put an end to all this big oil B.S.
sorry for the rant.
P.S.
Tesla is the MAN!!!!

[edit on 15-5-2008 by teraform]

Very simple, because Bush and his buddies are all tied in with the oil industry and that's where they make their money. Why would they allow such a car be made that would jeopardize their profit?

One of the podcasts to which I listen discussed this car a few weeks ago. It was mentioned that they are supposed to have a $50,000 version in 2 years and a $30,000 version in 4 years. The current sportscar version is VERY expensive, but those that are buying it are funding the research for the cheaper cars that are due out soon.

You would think with such a high demand for a car like this that Toyota or Kia could make this car for alot less with huge money to be made.

Iam tired of Bush and all these oil games.

To me it seems all the candidates are always fishy. Why can't we get a president that isn't selfish? I guess it's a good thing cause even though i'm only 18, our past presidential failures have inspired me to think about Presidency. I'm not a big money hound, i take things as they are and i'm an honest guy (but if i wasn't who'd know, right?!) anyways, i hate it when someone with the proper authority has the ability to make human life possibly easier and completely disregard it for $$$. Like this for example, i'm positive, if things weren't so corrupt in our gov't that the tesla car would be here now as well as cures for tons of stuff (and the fact that some of these diseases that plague the earth wouldn't be here). Oh well, at least a fairly near projected date is set for some cheap car that's safe for everyone's wallets.

I belive that the president is the front man,the man to be seen.Sure he wants things to go his way and he will make his money,It's the men pulling the puppet strings that need to change. Not untill they get every cent of course,I can only hope that a company or man like Tesla to come in change the way we drive and or live for that matter in a flick of a switch.

There is an electric car made here in Canada, called the Zenn (www.zenncars.com), which is ironically only sold in the US, likely because our current CONservative government is heavily indebted to big corporations like GM, etc.

The current electric car can only go 25mph, but they plan to have a car that would be equivalent to a normal car by the end of next year. It will interesting to see if it will be allowed on the road.

And unlike the Tesla Car, the Zenn is actually affordable and available (well, available to the Yanks anyway).

This one is cheap.




Did someone kill the electric car? You wouldn't know it on this bright May morning in Scandinavia, where the idea of a mass-produced battery-powered vehicle is being resurrected and actual cars are scheduled to begin rolling off the production line by year's end.

money.cnn.com...

Short answer? THEY CAN.


THEY DID!!!!


But they crushed all those vehicles and put a tight lid on it.


See the documentary called "Who Killed The Electric Car"


I can convert a car to electric for about $10k. If you're serious, send me a U2U.

[edit on 22-5-2008 by ianr5741]