A Tesla Model S refuels from empty to 80% in 30 minutes from a Supercharger, and they rarely need one because the car is fully charged every morning. I am not very picky about where I charge, as long as the kids and I can stretch our legs a bit after six hours of driving. For a while I used to ask hotels before I booked if they had a power outlet available for my car, but I don't bother any more. They do. They only differ in how fast charge they can provide, but that's usually not an issue when the car is plugged in all night. There is plenty of public parking spaces with fast-ish chargers as well now, and shopping malls with outlets outside to attract customers with modern cars. Tesla owners probably spend less time at charging stations than fossil car owners spend at gas stations. Charging is something which happens when you are doing something else, like shopping. I know, you can shop at many gas stations as well, but not while filling the tank for free.
well, smart is relative. This shows him to be pro society. From a stock holder perspective. it's a very dumb move.
Not at all. Tesla Motors owns a large supercharger network that Tesla owners (the 85 kWh version) can use for free. If other car makers support charging from Tesla superchargers, the owners of other car models would have to pay for use. Subsidizing free power for Tesla owners. And I'm sure no Tesla owner would complain if there are more superchargers availble for them to use, even if they would have to pay to use the non-Tesla superchargers.
I'm going to set up an array of training wheels with generators outside my garage, and harvest free power to charge my Tesla S! Or a flashlight. A small one..
A possible use for this is propulsion in space with no fuel. Even ion thrusters need fuel, and eventually run out of Xenon gas. If you can create matter in this way, it would, at least in theory, be bossible to make an engine which use only electricity from solar panels to make electron/positron pairs, and acellerate those in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Enabling satellites to stay in low earth orbit forever, and geostationary satellites to stay in position until it is time to de-orbit. And it would actually be economically feasible to de-orbit them, it will just take a very long time.
I'm afraid those scientists are 155 years late with their findings. Humans have adapted to their environment as explained by Charles Darwin in 1859. We have adapted to live on Earth, not in space or on the bottom of the oceans. This should not come as a surprise to anyone in 2014. To overcome this we have to gradually start living higher up, and perhaps in just a few hundred thousdands years our decendants will take their first steps in the vacuum of space, breathing sunlight and radiation instead of air.
Or we could just adapt the envioronment in the space ship / space habitat. Probably a lot easier..
Because M$ reads your contents and delete your entire account if they find e.g. family pictures, manga, something which is copyrighted by anyone else, or anything which annoy Microsoft in any possible way. http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-w...
There should be a Drive before Drive 360. And let's not forget Drive 3.11, Drive 95 and Drive XP and ME, and then Drive 7 and 8, which all serve the same purpose. And Drive 2012 Enterprise to make the confusion complete.
At least Microsoft will keep an eye (+ hundreds of NSA's eyes) on what you store there, and delete your account if they don't like it. http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-w...
What if I want a smart watch but no phone? Putting the phone inside the watch isn't going to help. I value my privacy, and don't want to walk around with an effective radiolocation beacon.
I'm willing to bet a large lump of bitcoins that the next human on the Moon will come from China. This may make Congress act if they are able to do anything but fight. Do you have a budget yet?
The first thing i noticed: Browsers use more power on Bing than on Google and even Facebook. All browsers. Don't use Bing on portable equipment. (Like if anyone ever did)
My power saving tips: - Adblock (does IE even have Adblock?) - No flash. Just remove it. - Ghostery (in Opera to kill unwanted javascript) or NoScript (Firefox).
How stupid are journalists alowed to be without getting fired? Look at this: Tesla acknowledged in a recent SEC filing that emissions credit sales hit $85 million in 2013's first quarter alone—15% of its revenue, and the only reason it made a profit.
No, it isn't the only reason it made a profit. Tesla made a profit from selling cars. This is a by-product of selling electric cars in the USA (only). The editor of this paper must believe his readers have negative intelligence. Yes, if you take away a major source of income from any company without replacing it with another income, then some numbers will turn red. No wonder he became a journalist if he thinks that is news. His supply of "news" is endless.
Tesla can take much higher prices if they want to, and still sell everything they make. The price tag is higher in Europe, where they don't get those pollution credits. If you order a Tesla Model S now, at least in Europe, it won't get delivered until next year. The car is immensely popular despite it's price tag.
Add to that the tax credits offered by State and Federal income tax, a large loan from the US federal government and federal grants.
All U.S. car makers got larger loans and grants than Tesla did, and Tesla already paid their loan back. None of the fossil car makers have paid back their loans.
Tesla have sold almost all the cars they are going to make in 2013. This means they must be selling vehicles that people are more than willing to buy. Thousands of them have already been pre-sold in my country (not U.S., so no car credits), and the first delivery isn't due until September. Which other car producers have sold their entire production to consumers for months to come?
You sometimes travel 800km a day in your car. How often is that?
I travel more than 500km sometimes as well. Perhaps six times a year. And frankly I don't think I ever drove 800km without taking a half an hour break for some food and life preserving coffee. (Not to mention the kids, who needs food and toilet breaks more often than me. And coffee. Especially my two year old boy. I should stop serving them coffee, but it is probably better than sugary drinks..)
To me the convenience of waking up to a fully charged car every morning, and the slight inconvenience of 6 half hour breaks at fast charging stations every year, beats about 30 trips to the gas station every year. By a large margin. Fast charging is fast enough for me, and more convenient than battery swapping.
Battery life is not a problem any more. The battery in a Tesla Model S lasts longer than the engine in a typical gasoline powered car. Nobody worries about the cost of changing the engine after 250000-300000 km when they buy a new gasoline powered car, so why worry about a battery which only gets cheaper and cheaper and with ever improving capacity?
Let this company fail. If we keep improving battery technology at the same pace as now, replaceable batteries for cars will be an obsolete idea in a few years.
AMD, if you want to rock and win: Get OpenCL support in the free (as in speech) driver. Now. With OpenCL the card can be put to good use. Without it is just another badly supported VGA card.
Every big company gets name trouble in Germany. Google (Gmail) and Microsoft (Metro) to name two examples. They should just prefix everything with a long random string when selling it in Germany, to be safer.
1 GW extra wind power capacity will only work when the wind blows. When you are in the middle of a low pressure, you don't have any wind, but you just had a lot of it, and you are going to get a lot of it in a few hours. That's why you need storage with wind power. Just adding extra wind power will not solve the problem.
When it's windy in countries with a lot of wind power, the price of power will go below 0. This happened several times in Denmark last year. (Check http://nordpoolspot.com/ for real time prices and statistics.) In Denmark, to choose a country with much wind power and good power transmission capacity to neighbour countries with storage (Norway and Sweden), the price of power typically varies 20 EUR/MWh during the day. Sometimes as much as 50 EUR/MWh. Probably more in Belgium due to low exchange capacity to countries with storage. When the wind turbines produce the most, the price will be lowest. This island will store the cheap electricity and release it when it is expensive. This island will almost certainly be more profitable than 1 GWh extra wind power.
The island will also be able to harvest tidal energy. As the tides change, so will the difference in water level on the inside and outside of the island.
Btw: Bitcoin production is shifting over to ASICs, which don't use that much electricity.
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A Tesla Model S refuels from empty to 80% in 30 minutes from a Supercharger, and they rarely need one because the car is fully charged every morning. I am not very picky about where I charge, as long as the kids and I can stretch our legs a bit after six hours of driving. For a while I used to ask hotels before I booked if they had a power outlet available for my car, but I don't bother any more. They do. They only differ in how fast charge they can provide, but that's usually not an issue when the car is plugged in all night. There is plenty of public parking spaces with fast-ish chargers as well now, and shopping malls with outlets outside to attract customers with modern cars. Tesla owners probably spend less time at charging stations than fossil car owners spend at gas stations. Charging is something which happens when you are doing something else, like shopping. I know, you can shop at many gas stations as well, but not while filling the tank for free.
well, smart is relative. This shows him to be pro society.
From a stock holder perspective. it's a very dumb move.
Not at all. Tesla Motors owns a large supercharger network that Tesla owners (the 85 kWh version) can use for free. If other car makers support charging from Tesla superchargers, the owners of other car models would have to pay for use. Subsidizing free power for Tesla owners. And I'm sure no Tesla owner would complain if there are more superchargers availble for them to use, even if they would have to pay to use the non-Tesla superchargers.
I'm going to set up an array of training wheels with generators outside my garage, and harvest free power to charge my Tesla S! Or a flashlight. A small one..
A possible use for this is propulsion in space with no fuel. Even ion thrusters need fuel, and eventually run out of Xenon gas. If you can create matter in this way, it would, at least in theory, be bossible to make an engine which use only electricity from solar panels to make electron/positron pairs, and acellerate those in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Enabling satellites to stay in low earth orbit forever, and geostationary satellites to stay in position until it is time to de-orbit. And it would actually be economically feasible to de-orbit them, it will just take a very long time.
I'm afraid those scientists are 155 years late with their findings. Humans have adapted to their environment as explained by Charles Darwin in 1859. We have adapted to live on Earth, not in space or on the bottom of the oceans. This should not come as a surprise to anyone in 2014. To overcome this we have to gradually start living higher up, and perhaps in just a few hundred thousdands years our decendants will take their first steps in the vacuum of space, breathing sunlight and radiation instead of air.
Or we could just adapt the envioronment in the space ship / space habitat. Probably a lot easier..
They tried, but used Bing instead of Google.
Because M$ reads your contents and delete your entire account if they find e.g. family pictures, manga, something which is copyrighted by anyone else, or anything which annoy Microsoft in any possible way. http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-w...
Or one.com and their Cloud Drive. We have One Drive, One Cloud, Cloud Drive and IBM's CloudOne. Drive One sell cars. Drive Cloud is free!
There should be a Drive before Drive 360. And let's not forget Drive 3.11, Drive 95 and Drive XP and ME, and then Drive 7 and 8, which all serve the same purpose. And Drive 2012 Enterprise to make the confusion complete.
At least Microsoft will keep an eye (+ hundreds of NSA's eyes) on what you store there, and delete your account if they don't like it. http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-w...
What if I want a smart watch but no phone? Putting the phone inside the watch isn't going to help. I value my privacy, and don't want to walk around with an effective radiolocation beacon.
Stephen Elop. No doubt. Their platform is burning!
.. in the summer ..
wear white.
Yellow reflective vest works even better at all times of day and year.
How about this? Stop making stupid Star Wars movies and come up with a new idea.
Hear, hear! Disney aren't making more Star Wars movies, they are making a Star Wars soap opera.
I'm willing to bet a large lump of bitcoins that the next human on the Moon will come from China. This may make Congress act if they are able to do anything but fight. Do you have a budget yet?
The first thing i noticed: Browsers use more power on Bing than on Google and even Facebook. All browsers. Don't use Bing on portable equipment. (Like if anyone ever did)
My power saving tips:
- Adblock (does IE even have Adblock?)
- No flash. Just remove it.
- Ghostery (in Opera to kill unwanted javascript) or NoScript (Firefox).
Many! Most are of course not well known. Lamborghini which is well known for obvious reasons, only made 2197 cars in 2012.
I'm not advocating anything. Is the goal of this system is to keep Tesla in business and profitable? No other goals? Really?
I can't understand current U.S. politics at all. I find this entire filibuster politics retarded. Do you have a budget yet?
Tesla's not turning a profit due to focusing on an electric car. According to this WSJ story http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578499460139237952.html it's due to selling pollution credits to other car makers.
How stupid are journalists alowed to be without getting fired? Look at this: Tesla acknowledged in a recent SEC filing that emissions credit sales hit $85 million in 2013's first quarter alone—15% of its revenue, and the only reason it made a profit.
No, it isn't the only reason it made a profit. Tesla made a profit from selling cars. This is a by-product of selling electric cars in the USA (only). The editor of this paper must believe his readers have negative intelligence. Yes, if you take away a major source of income from any company without replacing it with another income, then some numbers will turn red. No wonder he became a journalist if he thinks that is news. His supply of "news" is endless.
Tesla can take much higher prices if they want to, and still sell everything they make. The price tag is higher in Europe, where they don't get those pollution credits. If you order a Tesla Model S now, at least in Europe, it won't get delivered until next year. The car is immensely popular despite it's price tag.
Add to that the tax credits offered by State and Federal income tax, a large loan from the US federal government and federal grants.
All U.S. car makers got larger loans and grants than Tesla did, and Tesla already paid their loan back. None of the fossil car makers have paid back their loans.
Tesla have sold almost all the cars they are going to make in 2013. This means they must be selling vehicles that people are more than willing to buy. Thousands of them have already been pre-sold in my country (not U.S., so no car credits), and the first delivery isn't due until September. Which other car producers have sold their entire production to consumers for months to come?
You sometimes travel 800km a day in your car. How often is that?
I travel more than 500km sometimes as well. Perhaps six times a year. And frankly I don't think I ever drove 800km without taking a half an hour break for some food and life preserving coffee. (Not to mention the kids, who needs food and toilet breaks more often than me. And coffee. Especially my two year old boy. I should stop serving them coffee, but it is probably better than sugary drinks..)
To me the convenience of waking up to a fully charged car every morning, and the slight inconvenience of 6 half hour breaks at fast charging stations every year, beats about 30 trips to the gas station every year. By a large margin. Fast charging is fast enough for me, and more convenient than battery swapping.
Battery life is not a problem any more. The battery in a Tesla Model S lasts longer than the engine in a typical gasoline powered car. Nobody worries about the cost of changing the engine after 250000-300000 km when they buy a new gasoline powered car, so why worry about a battery which only gets cheaper and cheaper and with ever improving capacity?
Let this company fail. If we keep improving battery technology at the same pace as now, replaceable batteries for cars will be an obsolete idea in a few years.
AMD, if you want to rock and win: Get OpenCL support in the free (as in speech) driver. Now. With OpenCL the card can be put to good use. Without it is just another badly supported VGA card.
And because it is Germany I automatically read "Name" instead of "Game".
Every big company gets name trouble in Germany. Google (Gmail) and Microsoft (Metro) to name two examples. They should just prefix everything with a long random string when selling it in Germany, to be safer.
1 GW extra wind power capacity will only work when the wind blows. When you are in the middle of a low pressure, you don't have any wind, but you just had a lot of it, and you are going to get a lot of it in a few hours. That's why you need storage with wind power. Just adding extra wind power will not solve the problem.
When it's windy in countries with a lot of wind power, the price of power will go below 0. This happened several times in Denmark last year. (Check http://nordpoolspot.com/ for real time prices and statistics.) In Denmark, to choose a country with much wind power and good power transmission capacity to neighbour countries with storage (Norway and Sweden), the price of power typically varies 20 EUR/MWh during the day. Sometimes as much as 50 EUR/MWh. Probably more in Belgium due to low exchange capacity to countries with storage. When the wind turbines produce the most, the price will be lowest. This island will store the cheap electricity and release it when it is expensive. This island will almost certainly be more profitable than 1 GWh extra wind power.
The island will also be able to harvest tidal energy. As the tides change, so will the difference in water level on the inside and outside of the island.
Btw: Bitcoin production is shifting over to ASICs, which don't use that much electricity.