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And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby mos6507 » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 15:37:58

Tesla clarification

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')I fear that what we are seeing here is much the same thing professors see when they claim there is no such thing as man-made global warming. Immediately, they are drowned out by an unseen mob, and then their funding dries up. It’s actually quite frightening.
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Yes, that cost will come down when the Hollywood elite have all bought one and the factory can get into its stride. But paying £90,000 for such a thing now indicates that you believe in goblins and fairy stories about the end of the world.
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Because while Tesla fiddles about with batteries, Honda and Ford are surging onwards with hydrogen cars, which don’t need charging, can be fuelled normally and are completely green. The biggest problem, then, with the Tesla is not that it doesn’t work. It’s that even if it did, it would be driving down the wrong road.
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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:11:12

<blockquote>The problem is, though, that really and honestly, the US-made Tesla works only at dinner parties. Tell someone you have one and in minutes you will be having sex. But as a device for moving you and your things around, it is about as much use as a bag of muddy spinach.</blockquote>

Wow, I'd settle for hand job!

Seriously, Clarkson knows electric vehicles will never catch on in England unless the Brits figure out how to make them leak oil.
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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby RdSnt » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:33:55

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Seriously, Clarkson knows electric vehicles will never catch on in England unless the Brits figure out how to make them leak oil.


Easy then, have Triumph make them :lol:
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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby Maddog78 » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:41:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he problem is, though, that really and honestly, the US-made Tesla works only at dinner parties. Tell someone you have one and in minutes you will be having sex.



Yeah, that's the best quote in the story, LOL.
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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby skyemoor » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 16:44:03

Ah, the days of my Triumph GT-6... If I still had it now, it would be converted to electric.

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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby mos6507 » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:05:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Maddog78', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he problem is, though, that really and honestly, the US-made Tesla works only at dinner parties. Tell someone you have one and in minutes you will be having sex.



Yeah, that's the best quote in the story, LOL.


Isn't that the reason people buy sports cars anyway? How many people actually drive them on a track? They are a fashion accessory.
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Re: And you thought Clarkson was a doomer???

Unread postby RdSnt » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 18:18:10

[quote="skyemoor"]Ah, the days of my Triumph GT-6... If I still had it now, it would be converted to electric.

Absolutely not :shock: I had one as well (they had to drag me crying and screaming from its rusting corpse :x ), and there is no way I'd give up that torque.
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