I'm a bit fascinated by this. It's like watching the local favorite football team (which I don't care annoy myself) down by 13 with six minutes left in the fourth quarter of the championship game. Either they pull it off and it's hard not to be excited, or they fail and it's amusing watching the train wreck.Basically, Tesla really needs to find a way to start cranking out Model 3s.
The argument against Tesla is that they aren't required to play by the rules. Touchdowns, for example, count for 28 points. Taking a knee puts the ball at the 50 yard line. Field goals count for 2 points if the ball happens to cross the end zone; getting it between the poles is irrelevant.
And they have 20 people on the field with their fans saying how great it is to see them shaking up the sport norms. I wish them well, too. My complaint is mostly with the fans who don't understand they're playing by different rules. But being in the electric power industry, electric cars are good for me, and I want one.
I built two between my Freshman and Sophomore year of college, and was involved in three hybrids back in '94. From a performance automotive perspective electric motors are the way to go because that whole "peak torque at 0 rpm" thing is sooper nice. I guess I can be shallow enough to admit this: I'd like Tesla a lot more if they weren't so demonstrably joyless. They're fuggly and unimaginative and they firmly adhere to the maxim that anything that can be done via touchscreen should be done via touchscreen, despite the fact that touchscreens are the worst UI innovation in the history of ergonomics and are downright dangerous in a moving vehicle. And, really, every electric vehicle or hybrid is basically an uglier, more touch-screeny version of the cooler car it's derived from. So far, electric/hybrid vehicles are either made for people who hate cars Or people who shit money. Teslas? Teslas are made for people who hate cars and shit money.
