Fan of Tesla/Elon Musk - but the EV fad is way too early for large scale adoption, way too many obstacles to attend to, not the least of which would be the "ethos" or "calling card" if you will of EV's being green is COMPLETELY fraudulent until the grid itself is majority "green"/renewable & until we start building nuclear power plants @ large scale or some miracle new "green" energy tech comes to light.....it'll be a long time coming.
One aspect of this that I think the masses don't quite understand is that once you fire up a turbine at a power plant, your burning that power whether there's power draw or not. Basically, power gets produced in MW blocks that are turned on/off to meet the demand. Naturally demand is lower at night when AC isn't running, people are sleeping, etc, so fewer turbines are running. This is why power companies are charging less or giving it away for free at night. it costs them nothing since they have to run a turbine anyway.
So in that regarding, charging up your vehicle overnight is a lot greener/cheaper than it charging during the day, adding to the already high demand. An electric vehicle makes says as a daily commute driver, not at all for long trips.
Not a fan of Elon Musk or the failed Tesla experiment on the backs of tax payers. They are over valued by wall street and will be a footnote in the history of government trying to pick winners / losers.
By what measure have they failed? Did Tesla promise to turn profitable or reach a level of market penetration that they haven't met yet? It my understanding that they are selling them faster than they can produce them. They are essentially driving others to get in to all electric vehicles.
I do think there are plenty of issues with electric vehicles, and we never be at a point where electric vehicles dominant the road, but Tesla seems to be doing quite well.
