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Tax breaks for Tesla, Model S sedan to get 225 miles, cost $60k {Autoblog Green}
Jun 30th 2008 5:45PM It's in the Gov's own site, so it must be official:
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/10038
"Tesla's Model S will be a fully electric, five passenger, multi-use sport sedan with a driving range of approximately 225 miles on one charge. The projected cost of the Model S is $60,000."
Tax breaks for Tesla, Model S sedan to get 225 miles, cost $60k {Autoblog Green}
Jun 30th 2008 5:43PM It's hard for me to believe that they will mass produce in 2010, when we haven't seen the vehicle yet even on paper and only a handful of Roadster have thus far been delivered.
Tax breaks for Tesla, Model S sedan to get 225 miles, cost $60k {Autoblog Green}
Jun 30th 2008 4:18PM They suggested Tesla would receive greater incentives if the manufacturing plant would be located in an Enterprise Zone. So, my guess is that it will be in Salinas Valley, Kings County, or Oakland.
John McCain doesn't know how much gas costs {Autoblog Green}
Jun 30th 2008 4:14PM I don't see what's so weird about it. They asked him when he last pumped gas on his own and how much it cost at that time. He didn't remember well enough to give a definitive answer (which someone would likely debunk if it were wrong). He also questioned how it was relevant.
John McCain doesn't know how much gas costs {Autoblog Green}
Jun 30th 2008 3:32PM I agree. This article is inaccurate reporting.
Shell opens combination hydrogen and gasoline station in LA {Autoblog Green}
Jun 27th 2008 12:47PM You sound like you have stock in Altairnano. Unfortunately, the major automakers have chosen to not use them yet.
California unveils major plan to cut emissions {Autoblog Green}
Jun 27th 2008 12:16PM The California power mix is 45% natural gas, 17% hydro, 15% nuclear, 12% coal, and 9% non-hydro renewables.
Let's assume they phase out the coal plants over time. Their two nuclear plants, Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, will have their licenses expire. The interest groups will no doubt lobby to shut them down. Fresno wants to build a nuclear power plant, but the state prevents them.
Meanwhile, everyone starts buying electric cars and charging them at night. What will pick up the base load when the price of natural gas skyrockets even worse than it already is and California balks at importing even more of it?
Rolling blackouts with screams to "change your lifestyle!". What lifestyle? My TV, oven and computer working when I want it to?
California will need to make some very hard decisions in the coming years.
Shell opens combination hydrogen and gasoline station in LA {Autoblog Green}
Jun 27th 2008 12:04PM Plug in E-Flex with a fuel cell range extender makes the most sense for passenger vehicles. Hydrogen powered buses and trucks with a battery that acts as a buffer makes the most sense for those types of vehicles.
Hydrogen e-flex vehicles would improve our standard of living. Reduced toxic emissions in population centers and reduced noise pollution.
Gas stations can't provide quick battery recharges, because 1) the outlet is limited by the laws of physics (only so many amps), and 2) even if the station had big capacitors able to output massive amps to quickly charge a vehicle, the vehicle battery would have to physically accomodate a quick charge (i.e. not lithium ion as in the Tesla, Volt, etc).
If hydrogen is used only as a range extender "efficiency" is largely a non-issue. Regulations should enforce how the hydrogen is made (i.e. X percent from renewables, Y percent max from natural gas, etc).
Power stations tend to be placed around population centers because of the energy lost in long line transmissions. However, parts of the country and world that are relatively unpopulated have the potential to create hydrogen from renewable sources. For examples, the Dakotas have massive wind power potential. Feeding that to Los Angeles by a transmission line is not feasible. Turning that into hydrogen is. In addition, countries like Iceland have more geothermal energy than they know what to do with it. They could create hydrogen and export it.
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk - Epilogue {Autoblog Green}
Jun 26th 2008 2:30PM It would be weird for Tesla to hire Martin back after they've banned him from the Owners' forum. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening.
Obama joins the anti-McCain battery prize league {Autoblog Green}
Jun 25th 2008 6:37PM I imagine gas stations will install those battery banks about the same time they'll install hydrogen pumps (i.e. don't hold your breath).
