Tesla Looking at 2nd Plant; Musk Considers Battery Truck

they can make such an animal ... but you couldn't afford it - that's why they don't sell it ... cost

 

The newly-developed 12 V Nimh battery by Panasonic for start-stop vehicles does not substitute the SLI lead acid battery.

 

Maybe Tesla should get into the rent a car network similar to Zipcar.

Seems to be catching on now with Electric Bicycle network in Manhattan
New York City's Citibike bike-share starts selling annual memberships for $95 : TreeHugger

 

Not sure I would ever get on a bike in Manhattan with all the yellow taxicabs, but really these are cool bikes.

Is This The World's Most Beautiful Electric Bicycle?

 

You call that an electric bike?

that's not an electric bike. . . .

Now THIS is an electric bike



One of the guys who owns one parks and charges next to me at work

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I can make due with the Electrocat ....

 

An electric ute (pick-up) or delivery van makes perfect sense. High torque, short trips, stopped in city traffic, back to base for charging. Of course, I'm assuming that a pick-up is used by tradespeople and delivery drivers or some other pursuit and not merely as a manhood-analog.

 

Will Tesla Try For Federal Rule Permitting Non-Dealer Stores?

 

While I am sympathetic to Tesla's cause, I don't care to invite the federal government into usurping state rule making. The federal rule making enabled the banks to cross state borders and bypass the crafted controls that were developed over decades and we know where that got us with the S&Ls and then the Too Big To Fail banks.