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Old 04-16-2016, 02:07 PM  
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other things for clueless tesla fanboys who mirror petulant apple children...

lithium ion batteries decay in performance over time. its the nature of their existence. just a matter of time that your 200 mile range falls to 100 mile range...Replacing those huge battery packs is gonna be too expensive for the middle class budget. a lot of model 3's are gonna turn to paperweights real fast when their owners cant afford to replace the battery, or the motor for that matter. Consider the 20 year time horizon? ouch. these cars sound good for a 3 year lease, then get out, or else.

& 300,000 more customers at charging stations, which take an hour & up to charge per car? Thats a looming catastrophe that could be a brand killer. not sure why thats a nonissue to fanboys. how stupid will you look in your tesla when your friends, in their gas car, cross the country a full day faster because they are not sitting in a dozen charging stations for hours? hey, at least you can say your carbon footprint was delivered out of the coal plant, instead of the gas engine...

lithium ion batteries prices have fallen 40% since 2010 and are still falling, you can get a chevy volt battery for around $2000 as a dealer, its not a tesla battery but still...in 10 years time a li-ion testla battery may well be in the 1-2K$ range...

charging stations can be privatized...once there was only one gasoline company, today there are 1000-s...as soon as demand appears so will supply, it will be easy to install vending machine type chargers on parkings...or like a parking meter thing...

charging stations may well become obsolete if batteries hit around 1000$ everybody will have a full spare battery at home and design a dock type battery port...
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