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Old 04-10-2011, 02:55 AM  
Bill8
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Little "mom and pop" company TESLA already has a full electric car (not a hybrid like the Chevy Leaf) that looks as hot as a corvette...goes just as fast and you can drive all day and night on one charge.

So if they can do it...I'd say that "yes" IF Detroit & the oil industry weren't holding hands they could do anything they wanted to faster and better than a few guys in TESLA's garage can. But there is a lot of money still left to make in oil.
One can hope. The tesla is a specialty luxury car tho in it's current state and pricepoint, a bit like a delorean. People have been watching tesla for a while hoping that a silicon valley approach to carbuilding can produce a faster leaner manufacturing process.

No joy yet. The tesla folks have said they were shocked by how hard it was to manufacture a car at an acceptable pricepoint.

The wave disk engine looks like it should be cheap and easy to make, a slam-dunk improvement to the hybrid class of cars.

We will see.
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