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Old 12-30-2011, 06:37 PM  
Odin
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Originally Posted by baddog View Post
As I was gassing up the Charger earlier I thought back to this thread and realized that with one of these innovative cars I could not even pick up a passenger at the airport unless they had zero baggage. I doubt I could get my two carry-on pieces in the car and have a passenger as well.
Not sure if this is referring to the Model S, or the video embed (I didn't watch it), but for refrence the Model S has a heap of cargo space, more then pretty much any similar car on the market. The battery lays flat on the floor, so you have both a massive boot and the 'frunk'.


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Originally Posted by baddog View Post
Right, mobile phone started off at what, 3 figures, compared to this that is 5 or 6. Oh yeah, phones come with a 2 year contract, how will they do that with electric cars?
It's a car, of course it will always cost more. Are you saying people will stop buying cars because they can't get them down to the price of a mobile phone? A mobile phone isn't the target, a competitive price relative to gas cars is. Given the quality of the sedan it is already competitive with similar cars (Merc's, etc), however their next planned iteration is a $30k car, that is a 3~ years off though.

Contract is irrelevant, as stated above. You don't get 5 years free fuel with your current car either.

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