EV's need gas too - Tow with a Tesla?
Had to laugh when a buddy sent me this pic. Here's a Tesla on the side of the road somewhere, 2 gennys cranked, to charge his car so he can continue. And a big bucket of gas sitting there. Wow, is...
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time2roll wrote:toedtoes wrote:What about the 3rd group that just likes the smooth, quiet, effortless power combined with great handling of lower center of gravity.
I also think there are two different types of people buying Teslas.
The first are the "greenies". They want an electric vehicle and to not use fossil fuels. These folks are NOT parked on the side of the road charging their Teslas with generators - period.
The second group are those who buy a Tesla because they are "first adopters", "technophiles", or "image people". They are not concerned about being "green" but about having the newest, latest, big name, fad, etc. They WILL happily charge their Tesla from a generator because they don't care about not using fossil fuels - and they see nothing hypocritical about it.
To judge the first group as hypocrites based on the actions of the second group is unfair.
And group 4 that wants to stop feeding the oil suppliers around the word.
Your 3rd group would fall under the second category - they aren't buying the Tesla because of the no fuel use. If they have to charge using fossil fuel, it doesn't lessen their desire/purpose in buying a Tesla.
Your 4th group would fall into the 1st group - their goal is to eliminate their dependence on fossil fuels.
Basically, it's that for one group of people NOT using fossil fuel is the end goal. You won't see these people on the side of the road charging their Tesla with a gas generator. For the other group, they will happily use fossil fuels to charge their Tesla because "eliminating the need for fossil fuel" isn't the reason they bought the Tesla.
And I'll add that Teslas are probably the only electric vehicle that is getting a significant number of buyers in group 2. For most electric cars, there is no image, etc, for driving around in a Leaf that will have folks saying "wow!"
