Could be, but high enough prices usually destroy demand and shortages.
To extend of course, but if prices and supply fluctuate fast enough, which is a prediction outcome of peak oil with violent swings in pricing and supply, complete shortages will occur. As seen in the oil crisises of the 70's and 80's though for completely different reasons (Americas oil peak and arab oil embargos)
Are we in dreamland again? I did notice you using future tense.Tesla guarantees the battery for 7 years only and one can opt for a prepay of $ 12K now for a future battery pack. Oh, when it isn't convenient, then I shouldn't mention Tesla I guess.
Your average gas powered car is only warranted 5 years or less so I don't see the point. Nissan and Tesla Claim with proper usage the batteries will last long unfortunately we will have the wait and see and A123 batteries and being installed in hybrids and EV kits today.
Also batteries don't like extreme weather, I want to see their performances in the Michigan winter and in the Texas summer.
That why they have a temperature control system for their batteries. They have done multiple years to testing in extreme climates you can go to there website to see for your self.
Really? I am sure they could sell them for cheaper, or buyers could get a taxbreak. If EVs can get a 7K taxbreak (paid by you and me) why can't cheap car buyers get the same???
Because its a cheap car, generally you don't get tax breaks on cheap things. EV get tax breaks because they enhance energy independence and reduce pollution.
By the way did you miss my other post? You can buy the cheapest sedan for 10K today, and if they strip it down, it could sell for 8K-9K, without being a different class,like the nano.
Yeah in India, not in the USA.
Oh really? NOW you finally understand why I was bitching about the Tesla when you guys where comparing it to a normal sedan. So if you had the right to bring that up (you didn't) then I can bring up completely different class cheapo cars. That's how the game is played.
I been speaking of the Tesla as competent against hot rod since the beginning, the working model is to compete with cars of the same price and performance class until battery prices drop from mass production, and thus dropping to lower price classes. So far the model is working, the Roadster has been a big hit, now they have made enough to begin selling luxary sedan EVs, GM has put all they got behind a EREV (the Chevrolet Volt), Nissan putting in a E, Toyota and honda are also entering also extend the battery capacities of their hybrids and making them plug in hybrids. This representing a different strategy inserting bigger and bigger batteries into gas powered cars until the gas engine is useless. I'll quote Bob Lutz a higher chairmen at GM on this:
"All the geniuses here at General Motors kept saying lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with us -- and boom, along comes Tesla. So I said, 'How come some tiny little California startup, run by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this, and we can't?' That was the crowbar that helped break up the log jam."
The car companies are moving to marketing EVs, we have been seeing the evolution as battery prices and capacity per price increased over the last decade of first hybrids and now pHEV and EREV and the EV opening on the high end car market. The EV market is real not a pipe dream, even if it was to remain limited to high end vehicles of decade, hot rods and luxary sedans are not real products not pipe dreams.
So I take you didn't really have anything against my math??? And the Nano still beats the Smart Car by being able to travel actually long distances....
Your math does not take into account the market realities of pricing in other countries or demand for minis.
