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Originally Posted by alrox
Mere toys for the rich. They will never replace gas burning engines in our lifetimes. Gasoline is a far superior energy source compared to electricity. The "$50,000" Tesla is a blatant lie as well.
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Tesla's quote on their website is $49,900.
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Had we all solar and wind power stations, it'd be fine, but everyone uses coal plants to power their plugs at home.
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As an Electrical Engineer... this will never happen. Wind is not even close to being reliable or sufficient enough of a power source. Solar panels are not efficient enough. If I can recall some old calculations, we can only capture 80 Watts per square meter of energy from the sun (trying to recall... I think the sun outputs close to 800 Watts per square meter) so we'd need something like the entire northeastern section of the US to be covered in solar panels to supply the power being produced by coal/gas power plants.
Also, coal power is suprisingly clean.
However, Nuclear Power is what we want/need for clean power generation but it is too tied up in danger/politics.
Also, for the guy saying about efficiency:
