I've seen a few of the 2-seat model around San Francisco, it looks really cool, you can look under the hood and see the heatsinks on the battery packs.
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Originally Posted by Martian
The problem across the entire Tesla line-up is the charge time. It takes several hours to fully recharge the battery pack, versus several minutes for a gas tank. This severely limits the practicality of the vehicle for anything but short commutes or urban runabout driving.
This is not a problem that has a foreseeable solution.
I believe that in transportation hydrogen is a much more practical energy storage medium than any sort of electric battery. There are problems there too, but electric is getting all the love right now and I think it's a bit shortsighted.
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That describes 90% of the driving I do anyway in my gasoline-powered vehicle.. My next car will probably be a plug-in hybrid.
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