Don't know yet, might just let them run free and have you check food and gather eggs. Paul Ellcessor
On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is a certain material inefficiency to make the car larger for >> something it only has to do occasionally. > > At the other end of the process, there's another type of efficiency gain for > reducing the number of designs. If a manufacturer is still going to have to > make that 400-mile range vehicle for you to lease for trips, they're stuck > either making a small number of very expensive such vehicles that'll cost an > arm and a leg even to lease or coming up with a design that works reasonably > well for both 40- and 400-mile ranges. > > TANSTAAFL. > > I think Tesla's approach is probably perfect. Those first adopters who didn't > care at all about price subsidized the price of today's luxury sedan buyers > for whom the car is plenty "good enough" and who can afford the premium. > They, in turn, are subsidizing a much larger market of non-luxury premium > sedans that will again subsidize mass-market sedans. And all along the way, > each car has at least "good enough" range for the target audience. > > There're also some striking parallels with digital cameras at play. A digital > camera costs much, much, much more than a film camera, but you buy with it an > unlimited lifetime supply of film. In the earliest days when a digital camera > couldn't store much more than the equivalent of a roll or three of film, that > didn't mean all that much. Today, however, it's not at all uncommon to be > able to store thousands of frames on a single card, and to have a few such > cards in the camera bag that can be swapped out even faster and easier than a > roll of film. There are and always will be aesthetic reasons why some will > prefer film and create great art with it, but by any objective technical > measure film has become as primitive and outdated a technology for image > capture as charcoal on papyrus. > > Right now, today's EVs are mostly at that point where digital cameras were > when the onboard memory could only hold a few dozen photos and you had to > plug the camera into your tower's SCSI port to download the pictures. The > first floppy-based cameras are just coming onto the market and giving a real > hint of the potential advantages... > > ...but we've got a ways to go before, as with today's cameras, nobody minds > the premium price for the camera body because you'll never again have to pay > somebody at the photo lab before you can see your pictures. > > What's especially exciting is that there actually are a few people driving > cars like that today, so we know it can be done. It's just a matter of time > before it becomes affordable and commonplace...assuming our petroleum-powered > economy can keep going another decade or three so we can bootstrap ourselves > to a prosperous post-petroleum one.... > > Cheers, > > b& > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140828/b4828018/attachment.pgp> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
