My best friend had a Bugeyed Sprite, It had a 900cc engine and a friend of ours could pick up the rear end of it while you swapped tires.
It had nothing much that is required for a road worthy car today. It was basically a go cart with a bigger engine, wipers and a few tiny lights. You could not sell a car like that and homologate it in different markets. Musk always made it perfectly clear that he only wanted to pave the way for EVs to be a possibility in the current environment. I don't see how we can fault him for using whatever it took to do so. No one else was going to do it. Talk and play at it maybe, but no one was doing it. You can want an inexpensive little car, but he was correct to choose the S, a luxury model, to be the first concentration. The guy was willing to spend every penny he had numerous times back then to keep EVs and SpaceX going. I suspect he is amazed he became so wealthy, and I wouldn't bet against him losing everything, and not feeling bad about it, trying to colonize Mars. But, to do that he has to become wealthy, repeatedly seems. You are going to hold that against him? It takes a special kind of crazy to do this. Hindsight beat downs are just pathetic, IMO. On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 4:23 PM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 19 Dec 2022 at 11:56, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > > Yeah, the original Tesla Roadster used the ACP design with very little > > change. > > I read somewhere (haven't taken the time to find it again) that rather > than > license Alan Cocconi's design, Gage and Eberhard reverse-engineered it for > the Tesla roadster. Considering the ethics of this move will be left as > an > exercise for the reader. > > The T-Zero was a remarkable EV for its time. It was based on the Piontech > Sportech kit car, and was a little more than half the weight of the Lotus > Elise based Tesla roadster. > > The T-Zero's curb weight was just 895kg (1970lb), range 480km (300mi), > efficiency 9.9kWh/100km (160Wh/mi). > > It could have been - IMO, SHOULD have been - turned into a production car > with as few changes as possible. But for whatever reasons, that's now how > it all turned out. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. > In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. > > -- Winson Churchill > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221219/b075845a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
