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Old 20-11-2017, 10:26 AM
AndrewJ
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Gday Adam

Your Tesla is not what i would call cheap for the sheep (yet), but it shows how the research is resulting in costs coming down.
ie The comments made by topgear 5 years ago were probaly correct "at the time" and massive advances have been made ( and continue to be made ) since then, I just doubt that their comments really affected any sales at the time. The product wasnt good enough.
Elon is going to keep pushing and good on him, and now countries are talking about banning IC engines, it is only going to go faster.
I suspect what happens in the next 5 years will make the last 5 years look pedestrian, esp if they can crack the storage costs.

Andrew
PS one side effect is going to be interesting.
My local Coles has just put in 2 dedicated Tesla charging bays
so it is going to speed up, however, they are 50% wider than the regular bays????
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