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A real electric car gets closer and cheaper.....

Tesla: Tesla 4-Door Model S Sedan Will Be $60,000

Tesla's following up their $100,000 super-electric roadster model with a four-door, five-passenger sedan. It's called the Model S and will go on sale for about $60,000 in 2010. The Arnold (CA Governor) was on hand at the announcement because he's giving an incentive package to Tesla to manufacture the car in California, and will probably be in the Bay Area where we are. Perhaps a Telsa manufacturing plant visit is in our future? [SFGate via Jalopnik]

Update: Jalopnik says it's going to have 225 miles per charge. Wowzers!

[JSN]

sounds pretty cool.

[mofoj0e]

225 per charge is pretty good.

[anaconda]

Update 2: Tesla head Elon Musk also made statements that they want to get prices down to $30,000 within four years, but Jalopnik says take that with a grain of salt. It doesn't seem like a $60k to $30k drop in four years is out of the question if you strip out some luxury items, but we'll see.

Great idea. Anyone know how you charge the cars? Does it have any sort of backup?

[KicDaKitty]

Nice looking car.

[Zvengeance]

this is great but the whole power consumption will recycle again.

sure the car runs on electricity but who will provider the electricity? of course power plants that run on oil, coal, or nuclear plants.

so this does not solve the oil prices unless power plants lay of oil, coal and go nuclear.

my point is that the whole cycle repeats again. the buyer is not directly buying "oil, or coal" instead the power plant does it for the buyer in return for MORE money.

just imagine if we all went electric cars how much would our electric bill be?

we need a different kind of car. something that does not depend on expensive energy.

[Zankou]

My friend is #37 on the list for buying the coupe.

I really want to give it a spin once he gets it.

[Rona4489]

Originally Posted by Zvengeance

this is great but the whole power consumption will recycle again.

sure the car runs on electricity but who will provider the electricity? of course power plants that run on oil, coal, or nuclear plants.

so this does not solve the oil prices unless power plants lay of oil, coal and go nuclear.

my point is that the whole cycle repeats again. the buyer is not directly buying "oil, or coal" instead the power plant does it for the buyer in return for MORE money.

just imagine if we all went electric cars how much would our electric bill be?

we need a different kind of car. something that does not depend on expensive energy.

Bingo. They are just trading one limited resource for another, unless the car can harness lightning. That would be bad ass

[Triple-s]

Electric cars are the future!

[JSN]

Originally Posted by Zvengeance

this is great but the whole power consumption will recycle again.

sure the car runs on electricity but who will provider the electricity? of course power plants that run on oil, coal, or nuclear plants.

so this does not solve the oil prices unless power plants lay of oil, coal and go nuclear.

my point is that the whole cycle repeats again. the buyer is not directly buying "oil, or coal" instead the power plant does it for the buyer in return for MORE money.

just imagine if we all went electric cars how much would our electric bill be?

we need a different kind of car. something that does not depend on expensive energy.

someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe it's necessary to run a power plant at near the same level day in day out, so that when you charge a car overnight at the lowest hours, you're taking electricity that would be produced anyways and not used.

this is what someone recently told me, but i haven't done much research.