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oilerlord wrote: "I'll take the range - 265 fun-to-drive miles vs 107 grandpa miles regardless of MPGe." It's apples and oranges. You're paying for those 265 miles with Tesla's acceleration (fun). Germany is working to ban all ICE vehicles by 2030, that a little over 13 years. How many gas...

Why would it be? It's claim to fame is being the first affordable EV with an over 200 mile range. If no other car companies had cars in the works than maybe it would. Had it come out at the same time as the Leaf or the Tesla than yes it would have been but the thing that made it capable of its...

Nissan cut dysprosium in their motors. Dysprosium is used to keep NdFeB magnets from losing their magnetic properties when hot. It's a hard to get and expensive element, they claim to have cut it by about 40%. They may have also reduced the neo magnets to save dysprosium but limiting torque is...

Not true: "Nissan justifies reducing the torque in its 2013 LEAF by stating that too much torque affects handling as well as range. “ The natural response of an electric motor is to give its maximum torque from standstill, making it an excellent choice as a vehicle power unit, due to its rapid...

First, if you're going to repeat what I said get it right! I said, "Smaller motors use less energy. Push the pedal to the floor, the larger motor uses more energy. It has to be, Newton's Second Law; F=MA." Which is completely correct. Larger HP motors use more energy than smaller HP motors. A...

It depends on the load of the motor (electric motors are more efficient at higher loads). Will the 100 HP motor reach full load on acceleration? If both motors reach their full load then you and Wayne are right and there is no appreciable loss from using a larger motor aside from the non...

"so many things wrong" Enlighten me, I'm always willing to learn. As for the Bolt being a game changer, what will the Tesla Model 3 be when it come out? If anyone changed the game it was Musk, he came to market with a 200 plus range mass market car. I think the Bolt has real potential and I'm...

The 100 HP motor with 80% efficiency wastes 20 percent or about 15,000 watts to propel the car to 60 mph in a specific time. The 10 HP motor with 80% efficiency wastes 1,500 watts in a specific time. The 100 HP motor uses 100 HP to get to 60 faster, the most the 10 HP motor can utilize is 10...

Smaller motors use less energy. Push the pedal to the floor, the larger motor uses more energy. It has to be, Newton's Second Law; F=MA. If you go faster from 0 to 60 you use more energy. More energy equals shorter range. Period!

Small motors can have the same internal resistance as large ones. Larger motors due to their size use longer wire runs. Power and efficiency are not mutually exclusive, you can have small motors with better efficiency than large ones. A 100 hp motor will use more energy than a 10 hp motor...

VCRs were a nightmare. Belts going bad, spinning heads wearing out, tapes jamming, motors and gears, etc. MP3 is no better a sound reproducer than CDs and there are people who will argue that the LP sounds better than all of them. The CD and LP are both mechanical machines and just like an ICE...

There's another solution, EVs today are very much overpowered. The Tesla is the fastest sedan in the world, my contention is that it doesn't have to be. Slowing down the EV means increasing distance and reducing batteries which means lighter cars and faster charges. Does the Bolt have to get to...

I didn't say "sudden". This is what I said: "there will be a time when you have to plan your trips plotting gas station locations". I didn't say in 20 or 30 years either, along with "sudden" those were your assumptions. "see what happens" means that I predict it will happen. A 30 year old...

No, it's exactly the same thing. First, do you know that if the sun shines on an LED current will flow? People said the same things about PV modules, their price has dropped to 1/5 of ten years ago. Let's understand how this works. The reason we don't use VCRs today is because they have a lot...

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/sweden-combats-climate-change-aiming-be-fossil-fuel-free-nation/ Sweden Plans To Become World's First Fossil Fuel-Free Nation Recently, there seems to be an uptick in small nations or islands setting their sights on becoming increasingly, or completely...

That large screen TV wasn't LED, projection TVs were horrible and cost several times what an LED costs. I said there were "no electric car companies", not that there were no guys in their backyards using Lead/acid batteries in homemade electrics, and how far did your brother's car car go on a...

What game will it change?

Do you think 1996 was a long time ago? I'm over 70, I think it was yesterday! Did you have a cell phone 20 years ago? There were no large screen TVs, no LED monitors, no electric car companies, no charging stations, no LED lighting, no Google, no eBay and no Paypal. Twenty five years ago there...

First, I'm not GM, when they speculate they have to put money down, well actually I did, I own Tesla stock. I think it is realistic that at some point in the future gas stations will be obsolete. If you told people in 1975 that typewriters would be obsolete in 20 years many would strongly...

I can see that but I also expect variable regenerative braking in the future. The harder you press the brake the more regeneration you get. So now you brake for an animal crossing the road and you get the full benefit of Newton's Second Law (F=MA). The less you use friction braking the greater...