Back in the late 70s and early 80s, we typically paid around $10/ gen ed books, except for science/engineering (which were always changing), and IIRC, the most expensive one was $40.
Then in early 90s went back for another degree, and noticed that upper end had moved to around $100/science.
So, what are these now? It almost sounds like these are $500-1000 for a single text book? But that would be insane.
Nope.
The bolt will ONLY accept 40 KWH at a DC fast charger. As such, it will do 90 miles in the first hours, about 120 in the first 90 minutes, but then slows down. In fact, the fastest that I could find anybody had charged a bolt at, was from 20 miles left, it took 2 hours and 35 minutes. Keep in mind that as it fills up, the fill rate will slow way down. That is why they all speak about the first 30 minutes on the bolt, and the first 45 minutes on the tesla.
Now, it is interesting that you mention about the Superchargers being so far from your house. These are NOT meant for daily charging. You are supposed to do your daily charging at your home in the middle of the night. By doing 80% of the charging in the middle of the night, then we do not have an issue with the grid or poer plants. In fact, it will LOWER the costs of electricity. It is hybrids and leaf owners that charge in the daytime on a constant basis that are going to screw all of us.
The superchargers were developed for LONG DISTANCE driving. These were not meant for daily re-fuels the way some of the nutjobs have been doing. In fact, if you look at the price that Tesla now charges the new teslas using the SCs, the price is always MORE than the nighttime prices. Some of that is due to eletric company charging more for daytime, but Tesla designed it this way purposely to discourage daytime charging.
Now, the current Tesla Super Chargers can add 149 KWH to certain tesla's. The older one like we have, only accepts 120, or possibly only 90. BUT, Tesla has a NEW supercharger coming that will do well above 350 KW, and I have heard around 500-600 KW. That means that the average Model 3 with a 50 KWH battery will FULLY charge in less than 10 minutes (slows down towards the end), but can charge to 80% in just 3 minutes. Obviously, Tesla will likely charge a high price for that re-fill. Still, it will be less than $1.00 / gal of gas equivalence.
There are already EVs with better range and acceleration near the $35,000 price point.
Not even close to true. Not a single EV comes close to M3.
The BASE Model 3 is guaranteed to be less than 6 for 0-60, a minimum of 215 MPC and $35K.
OTOH, the base bolt is 0-60 @ 6.3 sec, and an EPA rating of 238 MPC and $42K.
BUT, perhaps most telling on these, is the fact that M3 will have a massive supercharging network that costs a lot less than what the bolt has. In addition, the Base M3 should take less than 50 minutes for a FULL charge on a tesla supercharger, while the Bolt will take close to 2 hours one one of the FEW DC 80kw fast chargers ( and most are 40 KW).
Basically, the M3 will serve as a regular car and able to run across the nation, while the bolt remains a localized pedal vehicle.
Geo-thermal in California is fine, as long as you are not fracking. If you have to go with EGS (i.e. drill and frack) to get to the heat, then CA is about the WORST place to go.
Oregon is just fine, esp. with all of that heat by volcanos. Newberry, along with some work in iceland, are proving that all can be of use.
good lord. You continue to speak without any real knowledge. The geysers was an OPEN system. That is the steam was brought up, spun the generator than then dumped on the ground. That dumping on the ground is what brought up all of the pollutants. Once they started re-injecting the water back into the ground (mostly because they had depleted it faster than it could regenerate), they were no longer undergoing massive pollution.
You continue to fight it because your state and utility running them were lazy and cutting corners. Oddly, it was the same issue up in yellowstone by a religious group that did not care about the environment or about the harm to the rest of yellowstone. However, if a geo-thermal is done with re-injection, this solves many issues.
And by not building on fault lines, I would have little fear of drilling/fracking causing issues. As it is, volcano being used for geo-thermal is already started and going forward in oregon
THe only real problem with geo-thermal are the far left weanies that have NO CLUE of what they are talking about and run around screaming about how horrible all geo-thermal sites based on one site.
Seriously, Portland could do it in several years with geothermal. They are loaded with volcanos all-around the area. Easy to tap.
And it is criminal that they have not.
Seriously, Google is now becoming a joke very fast and will no doubt follow the typical MBA path to dying off. Worse, they will choose to outsource to India and CHina while ignoring the fact that they are losing their capabilities and sending it to their competitors.
But, one of the best tools that they had up and coming was the android that was built in swappable parts. that would have allowed for TRUE competition to occur in android phone. Now, Google will see Samsung and CHinese companies build their own software and end up controlling BOTH software and hardware.
THis is all due to their switch from innovative tech CEO at Google to a worthless MBAs, combined with alphabet allowing this shit to happen.
While I have no doubt that Tesla WILL be huge in the future, it is not this big.
There is way too much speculation and stock manipulation that is occurring on Tesla.
totally different tax and is implemented ONLY at retail and only by states. IOW, it has no impact on parts/goods/services crossing the border. OTOH, nearly all other nations that we deal with have VATs on the borders.
Seriously, the EV1 is dead and over.
And you are full of shit about the ZEV. Those amount to SQUAT relative to the Model S/X prices.
Sadly, you fucked up neo-cons will continue to BS your way through anything.
And finally, GM and others are SOOO heavily subsidized by you GOP that it is AMAZING that Tesla is winning in America.
uh no.
The real issue is that all of the money to be made on EVs, is up front. The maintenance costs is SOOO low on an EV that there really will be no money for dealers. Normally, dealers and the OEMs make their REAL money on the maintenance and repair business. In this case, with Tesla about to have a level 5 Autopilot, the number of accidents have already plummeted in Tesla compared to any other car. So again, no real money for them.
actually, in the world, the leaf IS the best selling EV. That is a fact. The interesting part is, that where Tesla sells (other than Japan), they outsell the leaf.
No, they do not. Tesla has outsold leaf for some time.
In terms of total sales, they are currently running neck and neck, but that is because Nissan sells the entire world, while Tesla is still pretty confined to America and Europe.
It never dawns on these idiots that nobody is going to be loyal to these American companies, when they are not loyal to Americans. Staples, like walmart and target, are just front-ends for china.
Just like the rest of the developed nations, we need to put a vat on our goods, and esp. on parts/goods/services coming over the border.
denver2vail is actually EASIEST. The reason is that plenty of public lands to go through. And if done elevated, the supports can have protection against avalanches, slides, etc. IOW, this would be better than I-70.
you would be wrong.
ALL of the ski resorts want this. In fact, NEED this. So does the gambling towns.
More importantly, a hyperloop is ideal for this. The ability to stop at point and having a bussing system in place is IMPORTANT.
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Back in the late 70s and early 80s, we typically paid around $10/ gen ed books, except for science/engineering (which were always changing), and IIRC, the most expensive one was $40.
Then in early 90s went back for another degree, and noticed that upper end had moved to around $100/science.
So, what are these now? It almost sounds like these are $500-1000 for a single text book? But that would be insane.
Nope.
The bolt will ONLY accept 40 KWH at a DC fast charger. As such, it will do 90 miles in the first hours, about 120 in the first 90 minutes, but then slows down. In fact, the fastest that I could find anybody had charged a bolt at, was from 20 miles left, it took 2 hours and 35 minutes. Keep in mind that as it fills up, the fill rate will slow way down. That is why they all speak about the first 30 minutes on the bolt, and the first 45 minutes on the tesla.
Secondly, McD will NOT be putting in fast chargers for ANYBODY. However, Places are installing level 2s. Now, Tesla offers their level 2 device for free to any company that pays to install it AND offers up free service (even if limited to their customers).
So how many do they have? As it is, Tesla has over 3000 destination chargers JUST IN THE US along with around 350 SuperChargers. Note that by end of year, Tesla expects to double their super charger count.
Even in Europe, they just started doing destination chargers this last year and they are over 1000 of them.
Now, it is interesting that you mention about the Superchargers being so far from your house. These are NOT meant for daily charging. You are supposed to do your daily charging at your home in the middle of the night. By doing 80% of the charging in the middle of the night, then we do not have an issue with the grid or poer plants. In fact, it will LOWER the costs of electricity. It is hybrids and leaf owners that charge in the daytime on a constant basis that are going to screw all of us.
The superchargers were developed for LONG DISTANCE driving. These were not meant for daily re-fuels the way some of the nutjobs have been doing. In fact, if you look at the price that Tesla now charges the new teslas using the SCs, the price is always MORE than the nighttime prices. Some of that is due to eletric company charging more for daytime, but Tesla designed it this way purposely to discourage daytime charging.
Now, the current Tesla Super Chargers can add 149 KWH to certain tesla's. The older one like we have, only accepts 120, or possibly only 90. BUT, Tesla has a NEW supercharger coming that will do well above 350 KW, and I have heard around 500-600 KW. That means that the average Model 3 with a 50 KWH battery will FULLY charge in less than 10 minutes (slows down towards the end), but can charge to 80% in just 3 minutes. Obviously, Tesla will likely charge a high price for that re-fill. Still, it will be less than $1.00 / gal of gas equivalence.
no, they had issues with MX, but those are gone.
forbes has rarely been accurate with either SpaceX, Tesla, or Solar city.
There are already EVs with better range and acceleration near the $35,000 price point.
Not even close to true. Not a single EV comes close to M3.
The BASE Model 3 is guaranteed to be less than 6 for 0-60, a minimum of 215 MPC and $35K.
OTOH, the base bolt is 0-60 @ 6.3 sec, and an EPA rating of 238 MPC and $42K. BUT, perhaps most telling on these, is the fact that M3 will have a massive supercharging network that costs a lot less than what the bolt has. In addition, the Base M3 should take less than 50 minutes for a FULL charge on a tesla supercharger, while the Bolt will take close to 2 hours one one of the FEW DC 80kw fast chargers ( and most are 40 KW).
Basically, the M3 will serve as a regular car and able to run across the nation, while the bolt remains a localized pedal vehicle.
uh no.
If you are not CHinese, they do not care. A number of western companies HAVE filed and won patents in CHina and STILL LOSE IN COURT.
Geo-thermal in California is fine, as long as you are not fracking. If you have to go with EGS (i.e. drill and frack) to get to the heat, then CA is about the WORST place to go.
Oregon is just fine, esp. with all of that heat by volcanos. Newberry, along with some work in iceland, are proving that all can be of use.
good lord. You continue to speak without any real knowledge. The geysers was an OPEN system. That is the steam was brought up, spun the generator than then dumped on the ground. That dumping on the ground is what brought up all of the pollutants. Once they started re-injecting the water back into the ground (mostly because they had depleted it faster than it could regenerate), they were no longer undergoing massive pollution.
You continue to fight it because your state and utility running them were lazy and cutting corners. Oddly, it was the same issue up in yellowstone by a religious group that did not care about the environment or about the harm to the rest of yellowstone. However, if a geo-thermal is done with re-injection, this solves many issues.
And by not building on fault lines, I would have little fear of drilling/fracking causing issues.
As it is, volcano being used for geo-thermal is already started and going forward in oregon
THe only real problem with geo-thermal are the far left weanies that have NO CLUE of what they are talking about and run around screaming about how horrible all geo-thermal sites based on one site.
majority of manufacturing, etc. Otherwise, it works against you.
However, the real problem is that CHina does not respect OTHER's IP, only CHina's.
Seriously, Portland could do it in several years with geothermal. They are loaded with volcanos all-around the area. Easy to tap. And it is criminal that they have not.
Seriously, Google is now becoming a joke very fast and will no doubt follow the typical MBA path to dying off. Worse, they will choose to outsource to India and CHina while ignoring the fact that they are losing their capabilities and sending it to their competitors.
But, one of the best tools that they had up and coming was the android that was built in swappable parts. that would have allowed for TRUE competition to occur in android phone. Now, Google will see Samsung and CHinese companies build their own software and end up controlling BOTH software and hardware.
THis is all due to their switch from innovative tech CEO at Google to a worthless MBAs, combined with alphabet allowing this shit to happen.
While I have no doubt that Tesla WILL be huge in the future, it is not this big.
There is way too much speculation and stock manipulation that is occurring on Tesla.
totally different tax and is implemented ONLY at retail and only by states. IOW, it has no impact on parts/goods/services crossing the border. OTOH, nearly all other nations that we deal with have VATs on the borders.
Another link showing how much more S is outselling Leaf.
Seriously, the EV1 is dead and over.
And you are full of shit about the ZEV. Those amount to SQUAT relative to the Model S/X prices.
Sadly, you fucked up neo-cons will continue to BS your way through anything.
And finally, GM and others are SOOO heavily subsidized by you GOP that it is AMAZING that Tesla is winning in America.
uh no.
The real issue is that all of the money to be made on EVs, is up front. The maintenance costs is SOOO low on an EV that there really will be no money for dealers. Normally, dealers and the OEMs make their REAL money on the maintenance and repair business. In this case, with Tesla about to have a level 5 Autopilot, the number of accidents have already plummeted in Tesla compared to any other car. So again, no real money for them.
actually, in the world, the leaf IS the best selling EV. That is a fact. The interesting part is, that where Tesla sells (other than Japan), they outsell the leaf.
No, they do not.
Tesla has outsold leaf for some time.
In terms of total sales, they are currently running neck and neck, but that is because Nissan sells the entire world, while Tesla is still pretty confined to America and Europe.
http://newatlas.com/vacuum-com...
Actually, the best experts on vacuum in Europe are partnering with hyperloop because they claim it works easily.
No, it is because we made those state and national forests 100 years ago. And there are plenty of valleys to go to.
It never dawns on these idiots that nobody is going to be loyal to these American companies, when they are not loyal to Americans. Staples, like walmart and target, are just front-ends for china.
Just like the rest of the developed nations, we need to put a vat on our goods, and esp. on parts/goods/services coming over the border.
denver2vail is actually EASIEST. The reason is that plenty of public lands to go through. And if done elevated, the supports can have protection against avalanches, slides, etc. IOW, this would be better than I-70.
you would be wrong.
ALL of the ski resorts want this. In fact, NEED this. So does the gambling towns.
More importantly, a hyperloop is ideal for this. The ability to stop at point and having a bussing system in place is IMPORTANT.
darn good thing that you and the others around here have nothing to do with submarines, or space craft.
YOu would never have accomplished a thing.