RedCandy5.0

http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...by-electr.aspx

67Drewstang

When a Mustang costs more than $110,000 dollars and gets less than 200 miles on a tank of gas, this article won't be pure douchebaggery.

Who are you and why do you keep posting this meaningless crap?

topbliss

Exactly. Who cares about electric cars?

67Drewstang

It's pure science. If you direct wind an electric motor, it will put out an immense amount of instant power. Much more so than a gasoline engine. It will also reach a point where it is ungovernable and explode.

67Drewstang

http://jalopnik.com/5887265/tesla-mo...design-problem

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/...ed_design.html

etc...

The problem isn't that electric cars are an emergent technology, full of teething problems. Electric cars have been around even BEFORE reciprocating engines. In reality, electric cars are based on snake oil and a flawed assumption, and each generation of automotive engineers rediscovers the laws of physics and what makes electric cars impractical/impossible.

There is no real new tech, here. Superconductivity might have some answers, but for now, electric remains on the moon for practical personal transportation.

Fenderaddict2

Tesla article is outdated. Software upgrades won't allow battery to fully deplete and "brick".

Fenderaddict2

Well duh. Electric motors with 100% Torque off the line. The Tesla beats far more expensive cars than the Mustang, however having driven one and been driven in one I can say that the head snapping acceleration off the line is fun, but peters out or at least feels like it does as speed increases. Of course lifting off the throttle and burying it again quickly brings back the sensation.

97GT12

It should have never been an issue. The fact is Tesla Motors did not hire anyone with even basic knowledge of battery management for Li-Ion cells for such a mistake to have happened. This is really that basic. The BMS should have denied the car power.

As to the ridiculous test, lets see what happens to the Tesla after a couple runs. I don't know how many full acceleration pulls a full charge has but the average Tesla anyone will run into on the street is likely to be in less than a full state of charge making real world stop light acceleration a risk for them not making it home for awhile.

Fenderaddict2

Oh please, Ford delivered my Mustang with loose fender, shock tower and battery hold down fasteners. And that wasn't a simple software download fix while it was tucked away in my garage for the night. Give Tesla the credit they deserve, they prove the naysayers wrong time and time again.

steven46746

Hey look, for the price of a ZR1 corvette or 2 GT500s, you could beat a stock 5.0 to sixty! Sweet deal. Bet the exhaust sounds nasty!

topbliss

Electric cars are clearly not at the level where they will soon take the place of internal combustion powered cars. Not even close.. Maybe someday but not yet

Ethanjbeau

It took 100 years to get the internal combination engine where it is today. I don't doubt electric cars are gonna take a similar amount of time.

Glenn

ele cars have been around 100 years also but I think they took a long vacation in there some where

CCTking

plus they havnt been on the same track for development and research. Like the batteries themselves i think the movement is just waiting, charging. Just waitin to be unleashed on the world!

Thats the day i buy a 67-69 fastback, so i can say "Efffff CAFE standards!"

Ethanjbeau

Yeah gas was cheaper back then. So they went that route.