Tesla: "Not A Dream" - General

[video=vimeo;152927644]https://vimeo.com/152927644[/video] Very well put together fan made video. The speech is quotes from Nikola Tesla himself.

damn this is really pretentious

Yeah this isn't a good commercial, like I understand that electric cars are the most likely the future but just because you are using oil doesn't mean you are stuck in the 1930's

[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;49626501]Yeah this isn't a good commercial, like I understand that electric cars are the most likely the future but just because you are using oil doesn't mean you are stuck in the 1930's[/QUOTE] It's not a commercial, it's a fanmade short, not official. I'd imagine Tesla's ad agency isn't this pretentious.

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;49626532]It's not a commercial, it's a fanmade short, not official. I'd imagine Tesla's ad agency isn't this pretentious.[/QUOTE] ha, good.

[QUOTE=morky;49626473]damn this is really pretentious[/QUOTE] ya but the actual tesla had a very hard time doing precicely this, overcomming the incumbant gas and steam market to sell electric motors and AC equipment to factories at the time. he won out because he was persistant and because gas and steam systems got outdated, today tesla motors has an even tougher battle because gas cars and vehicles are very advanced

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;49626532]It's not a commercial, it's a fanmade short, not official. I'd imagine Tesla's ad agency isn't this pretentious.[/QUOTE] Ah okay with the title and the video I assumed it was from Telsa, after seeing the video's page I see that it is fanmade indeed

[QUOTE=morky;49626473]damn this is really pretentious[/QUOTE] It doesn't really seem pretentious. Electrification of transport is a HUGE deal and is a major part of combating climate change. As Sableye said, Tesla's own challenges are very similar to that of Tesla Motors. [editline]28th January 2016[/editline] It's an interesting video because of that. Tesla made the speeches all those years ago and they still apply to this day.

I like that they used a relevant Tesla quote though.

The batteries are fine. They just need to be cheaper. They're fairly safe for the environment and 100% recyclable in a best case scenario. Well built batteries are safer than a tank of gasoline. [editline]28th January 2016[/editline] The energy density of them will improve with time.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;49627178]What about in an area where temperatures are regularly below 0C or even 0F? Where I live you can dump out a mug of tea and have it freeze before it hits the ground.[/QUOTE] The battery is heated/chilled on its own to keep it at a safe temperature so if you're regularly in extremely cold or extremely hot climates you will notice a slight decrease in range because the battery is drawing power to keep itself warm/cool. Also using cabin climate control will draw on the battery as well. It won't be much of an issue unless you're commute is a very long drive. [url]http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/entry.php/194-Cold-Weather-Driving[/url]

[QUOTE=PelPix123;49627058]It's kind of a shame electric vehicles aren't ready for widespread adoption. We really need them to be. All of the tech is perfect with the lone exception of the battery tech. Rechargeable batteries just aren't quite as efficient, safe, environmentally friendly, or weather-resistant as they need to be yet. [I]Yet.[/I] We only have one hurdle left: we are one super-capacitor breakthrough away from completely and utterly phasing out gasoline cars! Once that breakthrough happens, electric vehicle sales will [I]explode[/I].[/QUOTE] Tesla's batteries are pretty efficiency, has only been one fire in a Tesla since they improved the shielding shortly after the Model S came out despite 100k on the road, and it's not clear if the fire was even battery related yet. The Gigafactory will handle recycling and will be able to recycle 90%+ of the battery packs when they are no longer useful. How aren't EV's weather resistant? Yes your range goes down but it's not like it will stop working, people have driven the Model S in -30c weather just fine. It's funny that you mention supercapacitors as Musk actually researched them at Stanford, and while he thinks that one day they may supercede batteries he doesn't think it will happen anytime soon or are required for EVs. The Gigafactory will also be producing improved cells over what the current batteries in the Model S use. Norway is the 3rd biggest market. With the dual motors digitally linked the front and rear wheels can act completely independently and react at the millisecond level, so in theory it will be far better in snow than any ICE vehicle with the same tyres. [video=youtube;jhxOW0CXNXE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhxOW0CXNXE[/video]

i wonder how long it will be when the cost of a fully-electric long haul truck is outweighed by the savings from never needing to use gas. by that time they'll probably be self-driving, too

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;49627430]i wonder how long it will be when the cost of a fully-electric long haul truck is outweighed by the savings from never needing to use gas. by that time they'll probably be self-driving, too[/QUOTE] I imagine a battery swap system would work pretty well for a fleet of autonomous trucks. Have company truck stops every few hundred miles on big routes so the trucks never have to stop for more than a few minutes at a time. You would make human truck drivers obsolete.

[QUOTE=OvB;49627512]I imagine a battery swap system would work pretty well for a fleet of autonomous trucks. Have company truck stops every few hundred miles on big routes so the trucks never have to stop for more than a few minutes at a time. You would make human truck drivers obsolete.[/QUOTE] If it's autonomous you could probably just charge it up, although getting the power required to the charging sites might be challenging. The time you lose charging would be made up by the lack of sleep and other breaks you don't require for a computer.

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