Are you going to drool on this Tesla car?

VamPyroX said:
Hmm... Tesla sounds like a good name for an electric car like this.

I'm familiar with a famous scientist named Nikola Tesla who worked with electricity.
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Yeah Telsa was around the same time as Edison. I believe the two weren't real good friends.:rifle:

Edison was a DC man, Tesla was an AC man (he also invented the AC motor in the 1880's).
 
Nomad said:
I've heard battery powered cars are really not green energy. Unless the electricity is hydro in its source, the emissions from a fossil fuel powered power station is greater than a fossil fuel powered car.

Any one else heard that?
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It's actually the opposite. The regulations on power plants are far higher. Recent generation Natural Gas turbines extract far more energy out of the fuel(50%+) than any ICE(~20-25%) and produce and order of magnitude less pollution.
 
I think I would rather buy a car that use biofuel than one that use elec. But I got to wait until my town have a biofuel station...sigh. I have heard some states in the north and midwest already have station like that.
 
$100,000 for that electric car buys you a $100,000 3 bedroom average sized house in Texas. ;)
 
Ford did build electric cars but only lease them, not selling them.
SilentWolfDog - Biofuel? Do you mean E85? If so, you got to make sure that your car can take it. If not, you can have it converted. My car can't take E85 :(
I am all for electric cars, fuel cell cars so we can be free from oil dependance.
 
no need to worry about the fuel or the battery ... :giggle:
 

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:giggle: A real life flinstone car? Ha ha. My feet would be burned out from all the running on that human powered vehcile.
 
I seen this car before on discovery channels "Green fuel" series or w/e it was. It looks like a yellow GT40 ford, minus hardtop and smaller. The guy raced it against a fuel using car and well..... smoked the other car I think, which was a sports car ..... i forgot.
 
Dark-Half said:
I seen this car before on discovery channels "Green fuel" series or w/e it was. It looks like a yellow GT40 ford, minus hardtop and smaller. The guy raced it against a fuel using car and well..... smoked the other car I think, which was a sports car ..... i forgot.
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That reminds me of one ep from "Pimp my Ride" where they fix an old truck (or car I can't remember which one) into a new vehicle that used biodiesel and they raced against viper and new vehicle actually won.

That owner also got free one year worth of biodiesel. Lucky him.
 
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