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<blockquote data-quote="billt" data-source="post: 3326219" data-attributes="member: 5188">Elon Musk&#039;s claim to fame are government supported electric cars.... Which have yet to turn a profit, and stand on their own from a profitable standpoint. I&#039;m as sick and tired of hearing about electric cars being, &quot;The wave of the future&quot;, as I am about, &quot;Medicare for all&quot;. Neither one will EVER be financially viable.You will never hear a Democrat explain how they&#039;ll pay for, &quot;Medicare for all&quot;, because it can&#039;t be done without bankrupting the nation. Nor will you hear Musk, (or anyone else for that matter), explain how you will heat an all electric, battery powered car in Fargo in January. When it&#039;s -40F, and the batteries are less than 40% efficient. Again, because it can&#039;t be done.Or else tell us how they will air condition the same, when you are driving through the California desert in June, when it&#039;s 118F in the shade. Again it can&#039;t be done, because it would take more energy to run the heat and A/C, than it would to power the vehicle. The range under those real world conditions would make the vehicles all but useless.You cannot legislate technology. And until battery technology catches up with these heavy energy demands, electric cars are nothing more than expensive, Jay Leno toys with pretty paint and styling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billt, post: 3326219, member: 5188"] Elon Musk's claim to fame are government supported electric cars.... Which have yet to turn a profit, and stand on their own from a profitable standpoint. I'm as sick and tired of hearing about electric cars being, "The wave of the future", as I am about, "Medicare for all". Neither one will EVER be financially viable. You will never hear a Democrat explain how they'll pay for, "Medicare for all", [B]because it can't be done without bankrupting the nation.[/B] Nor will you hear Musk, (or anyone else for that matter), explain how you will heat an all electric, battery powered car in Fargo in January. When it's -40F, and the batteries are less than 40% efficient. Again, because it can't be done. Or else tell us how they will air condition the same, when you are driving through the California desert in June, when it's 118F in the shade. Again it can't be done, [b]because it would take more energy to run the heat and A/C, than it would to power the vehicle.[/b] The range under those real world conditions would make the vehicles all but useless. You cannot legislate technology. And until battery technology catches up with these heavy energy demands, electric cars are nothing more than expensive, Jay Leno toys with pretty paint and styling. [/QUOTE]

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