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[quote user="V8Vega"]Are you guys aware of what a Tesla cost?[/quote] Dennis - I am only too aware how expensive that car is! The high price of it makes it into what gasoline engine powered cars where around 1900 - an expensive toy for adventurous rich men, daring to go overland in such a contraption. Town folks drove a Detroit Electric! Hard to believe that places like Macy´s offered free battery charging for their customers! Hardly anyone today still knows, that around and about 1900, 40% of all road vehicles were steam-powered, a little less, 38 % had electric power drives, and only 22% had a gasoline engine. That changed when Henry Ford introduced his Model T, supposedly subsidized by Rockefeller to boost gasoline sales after losing the lamp oil market to electricity... Imagine if we would not have that backlog of over 100 years in developing electric cars! Hybrid drives are just a milestone, but not the answer. Having two different types of motors is 廃棄物 or haiki-mono, meaning waste of resources, it does not matter whether both types are used for propulsion or one only to charge the batteries.
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