Yes, 50k is a lot for a car like this, but this is not some small car that you can only fit three first grade size people into, the Model S is a full sedan with seating for 5 plus 2 kis (yes, 7 total), or, fold down the rear seat and have a huge storage space, large enough for a 50″ plasma they say. And to top it all off, I think it has fantastic looks.

50k – a lot, yes, but given the fact that it will take about $4 (electricity) to drive 300 miles, even a car getting 30 mpg would take $25 today (at 2.50 a gal), and we know that’s going to at least double in the next few years.

At 100,000 miles you save $7000 at $2.50/gal – only $2500 if the car gets 60 mpg, but, if gas goes to $5.00/gal then you save $17,000 versus that 30 mpg car or $8333 savings over a car that gets 60 mpg!

Remember, that’s only over the first 100k. Double that if you routinely drive your cars 200k miles! Think about that – saving $34,000 over a 30 mpg car – that means that relatively speaking that Tesla only cost me $16k and it’s a heck of a lot nicer than any car for anywhere near that price range. Even at $33k, it’s quite comparable to all the cars in that price (if not nicer!).

Plus, don’t forget – no more tuneups, nor more emissions tests, no more jumps, oil changes every 3k miles (or less often if you do it that way), etc.

Forget gas – forget diesel – go electric and really stick it to the arabs. The next thing to do is go for better benefits for home installed PV systems to reduce the load on the grid. If we work had we can let OPEC choke on their overpriced black sludge. Sure, we’ll always need oil for plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial products, but we should get off of using oil for transportation (which is where we use over 2/’3rd of our oil now) and home heating too.

Everybody thinks that Diesel is the solution! (since it has a lower CO2 emisson) but, remember, Diesel isn´t as clean as gasoline to beging with. To be able to make the Diesel engine as clean as a gasoline driven engine the manufacturer has to use a very a lot of expesive solutions to reduce that, for instance particles katalysator etcetera and this costs…= money!

Simultanously, the car manufacturer that already has a petrol hybrid on the market today, toyota, ford uses the Atikonson cycle which makes the benefits of Diesels much less..

. It will be very fun to see how much Peugeut and other manufacturer are able to reduce the consumption compared to Toyota when they, sometime in the future, are tested face to face..

I mean are there any diesel hybrids yet on the market..? No.

But lets hope for fun competition when they finally are able to start building the next century and a little bit more technological cars.. Mercedes are very happy for their first, embarresing, try to hybrid. A mild hybrid with 20bhp electrical engine.. )