Tesla Roadster to Go the Way of the Segway

I never thought much of the Segway scooter or the hype surrounding its allegedly revolutionary launch.  If various state and local governments would not have bought Segways, due to Dean Kamen’s pleading with the State, the product would have been an utter failure.  Think of the flash of the Delorean, and its subsequent burn out.

Is this what is going to happen with Tesla Motors and their much vaunted roadster?  In a post at PapaDeltaBravo blog, titled Elctrofail, pdb states the following, after reading a Car and Driver story on the Tesla roadster titled Tesla’s 244-mile Range: What Up With Dat?

I’ll never own a car that I can’t recharge / refuel in under 5 minutes. Tesla Motors’ business model doesn’t seem to involve making useful cars that people want, but they ought to do well sucking up gov’t subsidies and tax incentives.

pdb is correct.  Tesla is already sucking up government subsidies and tax incentives, and has been since at least 2008, and probably was suckling at the State’s teat earlier than 2008.

Read that Car and Driver story on the Tesla, and then think about, if Tesla is a leader in the electrical car business, and can only supply 244 miles of range on a charge; if you’re lucky that is; with recharge times that are unpractical and expensive, the only way Tesla could survive is by attaching itself to the government’s teat, because real, day to day Americans are not going to purchase a 130K vehicle which cannot get the job done unless they are forced to by the State.

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