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Reply #270 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 8:35pm

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 6:55pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 6:49pm:

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 6:43pm:

when are you buying one... never?

when I swap for a sedan, which is probably not for a few more years yet ... now when are you buying a real car instead of that rust bucket you drive?

The 0-100 in 5.9 top speed 289 classic Ford GT?

It is appreciating in value on a daily basis.

Not many around now because they were all sent to sims metal that's how little value they were in the first place.

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Reply #271 - Dec 28^th, 2015 at 3:56pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 12^th, 2015 at 1:17pm:

Thanks for that link.
That is darned impressive. I love the new hybrid cars (my friend has one) and this Tesla, I will wait until the ole "as the sales increase, the prices drop" scenario...then when I get one, I will go out onto High Street Prahran, going towards Melbourne city, with their new speed limits of 40kph just set in the last couple of weeks, and wonder what to do with all that power to beat a V8 race car.

It's a bit of a tease, but in Victoria, fast cars mean our cops are rubbing their hands to book you doing even 3 ks over the limit.
What we save with fuel, the revenue fines will take!

Other than all that, I am impressed, and I do love our electric golf buggy we use on the property to get around, quiet, clean and cheap.
Not as fast at Tesla...but then again, maybe the golf buggy can be used on High Street instead? Horses for courses

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Reply #272 - Dec 28^th, 2015 at 4:15pm

I just showed the hubby, and he goes..."haha, (re: the "insane" button) and when the super car appears he says "There's a $million dollar car".
When the Tesla beats it, he says "Are you shi..ing me! Send that link to (a list of mates names)"
Cool

Did you see the next video when it drag races the V12?
Beats it at the take off, but then, the V12 gains it's power and wins in the end.
But I like the fast take off myself Wink

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Reply #274 - Dec 28^th, 2015 at 5:49pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 3:56pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 12^th, 2015 at 1:17pm:

Thanks for that link.
That is darned impressive. I love the new hybrid cars (my friend has one) and this Tesla, I will wait until the ole "as the sales increase, the prices drop" scenario...then when I get one, I will go out onto High Street Prahran, going towards Melbourne city, with their new speed limits of 40kph just set in the last couple of weeks, and wonder what to do with all that power to beat a V8 race car.

It's a bit of a tease, but in Victoria, fast cars mean our cops are rubbing their hands to book you doing even 3 ks over the limit.
What we save with fuel, the revenue fines will take!

Other than all that, I am impressed, and I do love our electric golf buggy we use on the property to get around, quiet, clean and cheap.
Not as fast at Tesla...but then again, maybe the golf buggy can be used on High Street instead? Horses for courses

That's a great YouTube clip.

Better than a V8 super car! Shocked

Wait till Longy watches that.

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Reply #275 - Dec 28^th, 2015 at 8:15pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 5:49pm:

Sophia wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 3:56pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 12^th, 2015 at 1:17pm:

Thanks for that link.
That is darned impressive. I love the new hybrid cars (my friend has one) and this Tesla, I will wait until the ole "as the sales increase, the prices drop" scenario...then when I get one, I will go out onto High Street Prahran, going towards Melbourne city, with their new speed limits of 40kph just set in the last couple of weeks, and wonder what to do with all that power to beat a V8 race car.

It's a bit of a tease, but in Victoria, fast cars mean our cops are rubbing their hands to book you doing even 3 ks over the limit.
What we save with fuel, the revenue fines will take!

Other than all that, I am impressed, and I do love our electric golf buggy we use on the property to get around, quiet, clean and cheap.
Not as fast at Tesla...but then again, maybe the golf buggy can be used on High Street instead? Horses for courses

That's a great YouTube clip.

Better than a V8 super car! Shocked

Wait till Longy watches that.

longloser will strip a gear when he sees that. His Ford clunker couldn't even make it to the starting gate Cheesy

LOL

And to think that we have literally poured tens of billions into these car companies here to build old technology that was never really good to begin with Sad

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Reply #276 - Dec 28^th, 2015 at 10:04pm

Setanta wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 10:42pm:

Wolseley wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:48pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 4:19pm:

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 3:17pm:

unless you want to go a good distance and you cant supercharge at your destination - pretty much everywhere!

tesla isn't catering to ALL markets you idiot.... you don't claim BMW will go broke because you can't drive it off road, do you?

Tesla will initially appeal to those driving mostly to work and back, plus a little shopping in between. It won't appeal to everyone. As technology improves and it's technology enables it to do more, it's market will broaden. The model T Ford didn't suit everyone when it first came out. Didn't mean Ford went bust now did it?

I recently drove from Sydney to Dubbo and back (with a bit of additional driving around Dubbo and Orange) without refuelling and I still had a quarter of a tank of petrol when I got home - in a car about the third of the cost of the base model S.

I am not denying that electric cars are probably going to be the cars of the future, but we're not there yet.

Do you do it often? I've driven around Australia and have driven back and forth to WA to see the family. Other than that... 400km is more than enough range for me.

I don't know the figures but something to consider on the refuelling/recharging is that not everyone(most people even?) fills their cars when they visit a servo. I certainly don't. If every car had to leave fully laden with fuel there would be far less visits to the servo. With petrol it makes sense not to fill up if you are not going to use it all. It costs money to transport and goes off. Electricity does neither so full charges and less pit stops would then make sense.

We do have some friends in Dubbo who we see from time to time, although they come to Sydney more often than we go to Dubbo. I wouldn't normally do a trip like Sydney to Dubbo and return in one day. I'm more likely to do Sydney to Canberra (one of my daughters lives in Belconnen, so we do head down there fairly often) and back in a day than any longer trip.

And I do normally fill up the tank whenever it drops below a quarter full, rather than just top it up. I don't see why not, the petrol will get used eventually. I'll only just put $20 worth or less in if the petrol is ridiculously expensive at the time, or if the only available pumps have just E10 and 98 (there are a few service stations with pumps like this - I don't know why) as one of my cars needs 95 (putting in 98 is a bit of a waste of money) and the other one can run on 91 but can't take ethanol.

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Reply #277 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 6:19am

Sir lastnail wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 8:15pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 5:49pm:

Sophia wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 3:56pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 12^th, 2015 at 1:17pm:

Thanks for that link.
That is darned impressive. I love the new hybrid cars (my friend has one) and this Tesla, I will wait until the ole "as the sales increase, the prices drop" scenario...then when I get one, I will go out onto High Street Prahran, going towards Melbourne city, with their new speed limits of 40kph just set in the last couple of weeks, and wonder what to do with all that power to beat a V8 race car.

It's a bit of a tease, but in Victoria, fast cars mean our cops are rubbing their hands to book you doing even 3 ks over the limit.
What we save with fuel, the revenue fines will take!

Other than all that, I am impressed, and I do love our electric golf buggy we use on the property to get around, quiet, clean and cheap.
Not as fast at Tesla...but then again, maybe the golf buggy can be used on High Street instead? Horses for courses

That's a great YouTube clip.

Better than a V8 super car! Shocked

Wait till Longy watches that.

longloser will strip a gear when he sees that. His Ford clunker couldn't even make it to the starting gate Cheesy

LOL

And to think that we have literally poured tens of billions into these car companies here to build old technology that was never really good to begin with Sad

Hi sir Nail,
at least Holden or Ford could have made cars
out of Aluminium as a good sales point.
The Tesla is made of Aluminium & the light weight helps to give it fast acceleration.

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Reply #278 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 9:48am

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 6:19am:

Sir lastnail wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 8:15pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 5:49pm:

Sophia wrote on Dec 28^th, 2015 at 3:56pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 12^th, 2015 at 1:17pm:

Thanks for that link.
That is darned impressive. I love the new hybrid cars (my friend has one) and this Tesla, I will wait until the ole "as the sales increase, the prices drop" scenario...then when I get one, I will go out onto High Street Prahran, going towards Melbourne city, with their new speed limits of 40kph just set in the last couple of weeks, and wonder what to do with all that power to beat a V8 race car.

It's a bit of a tease, but in Victoria, fast cars mean our cops are rubbing their hands to book you doing even 3 ks over the limit.
What we save with fuel, the revenue fines will take!

Other than all that, I am impressed, and I do love our electric golf buggy we use on the property to get around, quiet, clean and cheap.
Not as fast at Tesla...but then again, maybe the golf buggy can be used on High Street instead? Horses for courses

That's a great YouTube clip.

Better than a V8 super car! Shocked

Wait till Longy watches that.

longloser will strip a gear when he sees that. His Ford clunker couldn't even make it to the starting gate Cheesy

LOL

And to think that we have literally poured tens of billions into these car companies here to build old technology that was never really good to begin with Sad

Hi sir Nail,
at least Holden or Ford could have made cars
out of Aluminium as a good sales point.
The Tesla is made of Aluminium & the light weight helps to give it fast acceleration.

Can you imagine if we had of kept doling out billions to them to make the same old junk ?? It kind of would have looked really stupid whilst Tesla's were being sold here.

And yet this poor Ross Blade dude got the bums rush trying to build an EV business in this country Sad

No money for this dude but plenty for Holden and Ford. Sad

http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/53844D76F8C0BB66CA257945001773...

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He said he tried for two years to buy Australian-made bodies from Holden, Ford and Toyota, but formed the impression they are not interested.

He explored developing an ESC system suitable for a remanufactured i20 Hyundai, but could not find a supplier in Australia, prompting the move from cars to Chinese-based commercial vehicles.

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And Mr Blade has a plan for recharging the Chinese commercial vehicles in just 12 minutes, using a second battery pack that remains in the garage, charged up from the electricity grid using off-peak trickle charge.

Mr Blade said there is a faster standard for recharging, called CHAdeMO – as in CHArge de MOve or “charge for moving” – which can handle 200 amps, “but you don’t pull that off the grid without blacking out the whole block”.

“So our solution is, we use a battery pack from the car, put it up on the wall, and it can be topped-up with solar panels. It can be an off-grid solution.

“The great thing about it is a battery on the wall allows us to do what’s called an ultra-fast charge.”

A second battery pack will cost more money, of course, but he points out that one BEV pack costs less than $10,000 to make compared with prices of around $15,000 for other EVs.

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 107263 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Tesla Reply #281 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:27pm There is a Tesla model S just outside Myers front door in Chadstone & also just a chassis of a Tesla - very impressive - you all gotta see it - especially Longy.
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Reply #282 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:38pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:27pm:

There is a Tesla model S just outside Myers front door in Chadstone & also just a chassis of a Tesla - very impressive -

you all gotta see it -

especially Longy.

That video has been a hit on my fb page, with others sharing it on their own fb......and one of the hubbies workmates in the workshop has said he saw it at Chadstone shopping centre, and was surprised how roomy it was on the inside of the car.

Do you live somewhere around the Melbourne metro area Sir Bobby?

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Reply #283 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:40pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:38pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:27pm:

There is a Tesla model S just outside Myers front door in Chadstone & also just a chassis of a Tesla - very impressive -

you all gotta see it -

especially Longy.

That video has been a hit on my fb page, with others sharing it on their own fb......and one of the hubbies workmates in the workshop has said he saw it at Chadstone shopping centre, and was surprised how roomy it was on the inside of the car.

Do you live somewhere around the Melbourne metro area Sir Bobby?

It's an amazing looking car - very roomy inside.

I live only 20 minutes drive from Chady.

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Reply #284 - Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:53pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:40pm:

Sophia wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:38pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2015 at 3:27pm:

There is a Tesla model S just outside Myers front door in Chadstone & also just a chassis of a Tesla - very impressive -

you all gotta see it -

especially Longy.

That video has been a hit on my fb page, with others sharing it on their own fb......and one of the hubbies workmates in the workshop has said he saw it at Chadstone shopping centre, and was surprised how roomy it was on the inside of the car.

Do you live somewhere around the Melbourne metro area Sir Bobby?

It's an amazing looking car - very roomy inside.

I live only 20 minutes drive from Chady.

I wouldn't mind going to have a look at it, bring hubby along (he hates shopping, and as Chadstone is a huge shopping town....ho hum...)
Anyway, I am really only going to look at the car Wink

Here is a couple of interesting links.

http://techau.com.au/the-full-story-on-the-tesla-model-s-in-australia/

http://www.carshowroom.com.au/news/tesla-opens-melbourne-store-at-chadstone/

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