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>buying anything other than a Tesla
>cars currently go 200-400 miles on a single charge
>Promise to have a car going 1000 miles on a single charge by 2020
>5,000+ superchargers worldwide to recharge your car for free
>5,000+ more being built
Why would you even consider buying a gas guzzling car with so much innovating in Tesla cars? Did you pre-order your Tesla 3 /o/?
With my work, a Tesla would be awful.
My boss gave me a BMW i3 for a couple months, and getting to/from job sites 400+ miles away was a fucking pain.
>>14862310
reported for advertising
>>14862310
>not making dinosaurs explode in your freetime
>>14862324
It really depends on your location.
See if a tesla supercharger is near you:
https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
They're building 5000+ more as we speak.
>>14862378
I would have to divert my routes 1-2 hours to get to most super chargers.
It's easier for me to just use a gas car. In the past 3 weeks I've put nearly 5k miles on my car.
>>14862310
Reported for advertising.
Silicon Valley should stop breaching containment. Those collectivist fucks are ruining everything they touch. Car culture will become indistinguishable from mobile phone culture thanks to Tesla
>>14862396
what kind of car did you end up with?
>>14862801
car culture already sucks anon. What you're talking about has already happened.
>>14862838
Fisker Karma
>>14862801
SMART EVERYTHING
INTERNET OF THINGS
BUTTONS ARE OUTDATED, HAVE TOUCHSCREENS CONTROL EVERYTHING LMAO
WE'RE SO PROGRESSIVE GUYS
>>14862838
Lexus CT-H.
>>14862852
>[
>>14862849
what do you do that requires you to drive so much?
>>14862310
>10 000 supercharging stations is a lot
Compare that to the number of petrol station there are brer.
Also
>muh Tesla getting to Canada now
>even with the plans for new stations, three provinces are completely left out, a ridiculously small area of the country is actually covered
The reason why people are not considering getting a Tesla is because some folks need trucks, some folks need very smal lcars, some people need large cargo space and since that's not fancy nd marketable, Tesla doesn't give a shit. And that's their loss because the day EVs will be a viable alternative for petrol is precisely the day you can get a beater/utilitarian EV with enough power and range.
>>14862310
I have this revolutionary idea, but hold your horses it's just a concept.
What if, instead of turning fuel into electricity, then transferring it into a battery as chemical energy and then again transferring it to motion.
What if you actually put the fuel directly in your vehicle?
BOOM
I'm going to make a fortune with this.
>>14862310
>takes 75 mins to fully charge
>who the fuck wants to loiter around a gas station for over an hour?
>>14862925
Stop denying the future, once Egon realizes we might be ready, he will release his new supercharging technology that reloads your car while it runs without even going to any station.
>>14862930
unless he can get gas attendants to come out in a 12Kcal/cm suit and blast visor to charge my car in under 5 mins with fucking commercial service lines, I aint buying.
>>14862947
snackbar at the 7/11 looking like this.
>>14862310
Most older (even mid 2000s) cars eletronic systems start to shit themselves, what has tesla done differently to stop this happening? I have a feeling tesla want cars like apple phones, buy a new one every two years which completly destroys the whole eletronic cars are greener
why isn't tesla making a stripped down barebones muscle coupe?
Because its not even close to being practically feasible for most people, you ignorant fucking piece of shit.
Hurr durr, not everyone is rich or has the luxury to shape their life style around fueling a fucking car. I'll wait about 5 more years and see where they are then
>>14863389
because they want the Apple market, not people who have some interest in cars.
>>14862859
Contract work at various port cities.
We're out of Galveston, but some days I'll have to drive to Miami, New Orleans, Corpus Christi, Panama City, Ft. Lauderdale, hell I even drove to Richmond 3 times.
>>14862310
>buying based on a promise
Just like preordering video games
>>14862310
Only if it looked like this.
>>14862930
Literally physically impossible
>>14864978
Why does France make cars look so good but shit under the surface? It's like a hot chick with a shit attitude and boring personality
>>14864994
So like a hot chick?
>>14862850
DON'T FORGET THE ROUNDED SHAPES BECAUSE CORNERS LOOK DANGEROUS
ALSO NEUTRAL NON-OFFENSIVE COLORS, LIKE BABY BLUE AND LIGHT GREEN
>>14864988
why don't you want the future to happen? It's because of people like you that Tesla himself could not create an actual utopia and now you and people like you are preventing Egon from doing just that.
Keep your negativity and shove it
>>14865046
The future is bleak anon
>>14865051
Tesla's future isn't but apparently nobody wants it to hapen so you are right.
>>14865057
It'll be a glorious day for mankind when egon dies and the company gets split among shareholders.
>>14865066
Yes, let's hope a selfless philantrope who worked for the betterment of the entire human race dies and that the work of his life goes to waste because greed will not let humanity take any step in the right direction.
If I bought a Tesla, which I would never because I'm fucking poor, I like the fact that your car would actually benefit from future advances in technology. Let's say you've got a 400 mile range today, but in 10-20 years when you need to replace your batteries (which would be fucking expensive) you'll get the latest battery technology which would increase your car's range and battery life. This is assuming technology does develop.
>>14865075
No, liberals will not let humanity take a step in anybdirection
>>14862955
You are retarded if you haven't realized Apple has the longest product cycle and longest OS support time of any phone make.
>>14865089
Yeah, better vote for Trump at least he knows what's best for us amairaite my /pol/friends xDDDD?
ugh
kek, nothing better than watching autistic try-hards spill all their autism and /pol/ memes on every tesla thread
>>14865102
Trump won't make a good president but he says what's on his mind and he's not wrong about the issues facing America
>>14865076
Cars have had this capacity since forever
>>14862310
DAILY REMINDER.
>>14864949
>tfw want EV muscle badly but there's no market because the only people buying EVs (still) see them as smartphones on wheels
>>14865155
Just shut the fuck up about it already
>>14865155
The day they come up with a proper electric offroader will be the day I become a happy man.
>>14865175
i just wanna vrr vrr
>>14865132
Are you really trying to compare replacing a battery to replacing an engine/trans/whatever?
>>14862310
>Promise to have a car going 1000 miles on a single charge by 2020
How now, if they can accomplish that, I could see myself getting an electric.
But not before that.
>>14865101
Bullshit. An iPhone gets slower with every new iOS. Androids get faster. Try keeping an iPhone beyond two years.
>>14865154
too be fair a Gt500 with street radials would run like 11 flat or faster.
motor trend sucks at driving cars.
>>14862324
I am a big fan of EVs, but I will admit that for some things they are not practical yet, not even a Tesla, if you have to drive a lot in areas without charging possibilites.
>>14862897
Except a lot of electricity comes from hydro, solar, wind and nuclear. And you also need massive amounts of electricity to refine gas or diesel. The electricity needed to refine 60-70 liters of gas is almost enough for a full charge of a Tesla.
>>14865101
OS support means shit when the phone starts spassing out after 2 years
>>14865246
>>14865101
>Apple longest OS support time
iPads made in 2010 can't upgrade to the newest firmware and all the modern software is locked behind the newest firmware. Meanwhile my laptop from 2004 can run things made in 2015 and my car from 1993 can charge said laptop. Of course Apple isn't doing this on accident, they're doing it on purpose so you have to spend more money on the newest gadget.
Android is the same way except modern software runs on pretty much all versions of android.
>>14865154
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SRHxcpG6I
>>14865246
That's such bullshit. We have iPhone 4's at my work that certain departments use and they work fine. They're not upgraded to the newest OS because they weren't built for it, but they still work perfectly running the OS that they're meant to use. You'd see the same thing upgrading an old ass computer to a brand new OS. Android is also more buggy because it has to run across various devices.
iPhone and Apple have their faults but their shit generally works well if you use common sense with them which is why a lot of corporations use them for their phones and tablets.
>model 3 is $30k
>Dino exploding shitbox is $15k
$15k can get me lots of explosive dino juice.
>>14862850
EVERYTHING WILL HAVE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
WE WILL RANDOMLY CHANGE LANGUAGES IN YOUR CAR SO YOU CAN FEEL DIVERSITY AND EXPERIENCE THE CONFUSION IMMIGRANTS FEEL WHEN THEY ENTER AN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY
YOUR CAR WILL RANDOMLY UNLOCK WHEN PARKED TO ALLOW STRANGERS INCLUSION INTO THE TESLA EXPERIENCE, EVERYBODY IS FRIENDLY AND AWESOME SO WHY NOT MEET NEW PEOPLE?
>>14863862
>poor people don't earn enough to buy a tesla
kek, I'm like a bottom tier engineer at my company and I earn 150k a year. Rent in my city starts at 4k/mo so I really don't have that much money to play with but I can easily afford a model S. How do you guys manage to earn less than 150-130k?
>>14865451
By not being cis white males
>>14865483
You own a computer and you have an internet connection. How can you possibly not have learned how to write your own software?
>>14865499
Because I don't like tedious bullshit for one and I also like the sun
>>14862310
>buying literal automotive botnet
>>14865548
Coding is like the easiest thing ever. If you want tedious bullshit, try covering yourself in sun screen. It should say on the fucking bottle to keep that stuff out of your eyes and mouth.
>>14862310
>Why would you even consider buying a gas guzzling car with so much innovating in Tesla cars?
I don't enjoy destroying the environment.
>>14865451
>Rent in my city starts at 4k/mo
I love how you just gloss over this as if living in a city and paying someone 4k/month to pad out their pension was at all desirable.
>>14865805
Tech nu-males have never been ones for logic, all that bullying in high school leaves a mark
>>14862310
I really don't like how it looks, and it's nowhere near as luxurious/comfortable as our (ok, my gf's) CLS Class.
I'm not interested in any EV until the range is as at least as big, and the time to recharge is as short as refueling (or the range being like 5 time the range of a petrol car).
That said, I would be ok with the range/charge time if there was an EV I'd really like, but there isn't.
The looks & feel of a car will always be most important to me, and the Model S is one of the most boring looking vehicles in my opinion.
>>14865178
>tfw no EV Wrangler
Why do other Jeep enthusiasts have such an instant emotional breakdown when I mention it?
>>14865709
>try covering yourself in sun screen.
>needs sun screen
Holy Hell the basement dweller is real
>>14865076
Or they will just give you a replacement just like your old one because they want you to upgrade to a newer model
>>14862310
The Tesla 3 is in consideration for my next car. Once they're up to 450 miles on a charge and charge in 15 minutes tops, it's viable.
The tech's not far off.
As it is, it'd work fine for a DD, but I wouldn't be able to do longer runs on it like with my Focus.
>>14862310
>Did you pre-order your Tesla 3 /o/?
No, and this is why:
> Still financing a car
> Current car's got at least a few years left in it
> I don't have thousands to drop on one
> I refuse to buy a car I haven't driven
> I fucking hate touchscreens
>>14865154
atleast Teslas dont kill bystanders unlike Shitstangs.
>>14862310
>>14862310
>preordering a car that they won't be able to deliver in those numbers...
>>14865348
That's why windows, Linux, and osx are all so buggy, they have to run on a bunch of devices :^)
>>14862801
But....but ....the hipster movement already ruined the car culture meme
>>14862872
Don't look now bruh but Tesla is planning to build EV trucks and small cars
>>14865451
> not that much money to play with
> rent is 4,000 clams a month
> ridicules others for making less than him
> mfw anon has something resembling a point
>>14866833
>fucking hate touchscreens
Join the club.
Model S at the Burgerking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dphw4km60m4
>>14864958
Hey, I'm in Galvatraz. What company? I go to TAMUG.
