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Originally Posted by fjtorres
20 minutes gets you 150 miles at the superstations.
(Restroom stop, get a drink, stretch legs, car recharged.)
The network is under construction. NY to LA will be possible by late 2013.
http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger |
Impressive if it really works that way, not only if it's not too hot, the charger isn't too busy, Venus isn't in the 12th house...
One similarity between Apple and Tesla seems to be that deferential journalists seem to be willing to discard standard testing procedures when testing their products.
No performance testing in Laguna Seca on a hot day, no quick dash with the car fully loaded with staff and equipment to an attractive location that's a couple of hundred miles away.
Woe betide a journalist who simply treats it as a normal car like that journalist who parked it outside his hotel on a cold night and stranded with it without power the next day. As a result he was berated and called a cheat by the very Elon Musk himself.
As to Apple: part of their declining appeal (if that really is so) may be down to their design that may have reached a stage where Apple has to take a radical new course to show something really new. How "cool" can a company be whose products are the darlings of middle aged people wearing business suits?