This is more of a philosophical discussion and may be off topic. It's worth mentioning that Elon Musk *does* want to make money and thinks this is a good way to do it. The industry will follow not out of the goodness of their heart but for all the profits they could make. Consumers will follow to get the best deal. Tesla does have some not so secret sauce on battery packaging and management so they could be a supplier to the hobbyist if they wanted to... but won't as it dilutes their brand as a car company.
The high cost of entry continues to be a barrier to most consumers. If you are investing that money you need something that you know will last 10 years doing what you want it to do. I think we have cars now that indeed do this. It's just going to take some time for it to be cool enough for it to take off. I'll tell you one thing, if they do last 10 years that should be long enough to see another gas crunch and then everyone will know a person with an electric car that is less impacted. That will be quite a boost to the industry. Consumers wallets are an overriding force in most markets. sean On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:43 PM, George Tyler via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Elon Musk says that America is the easiest place to get any new thing > going, and he is probably right. There are more EV conversions in USA than > anywhere else, and there are people doing it commercially. Why has this > market not taken off? In this forum we have all the skills necessary to set > up a franchise that is in it's self not for profit but works to further the > development of a market for converted cars which could be a fraction of the > cost of the current manufacturer's cars. This would really get things going. > Someone could speak to Elon Musk, get some help, financially and > in other ways. With other big players they are only interested in the money > they can make out of it, but Elon aims to create an electric car industry, > does not really care about the money for it's own sake, only for what it > can do to make a difference to the world. We should work with this as much > as possible as the people on here and Elon have this in common, something > unique, it is too good an opportunity to miss. > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -- Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140925/c1c6c443/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
