5. The Hype: Tesla has it.
This very article is an example of how much enthusiasm this company is generating. Tesla Motors specifically, and Elon Musk’s activities in general, are making a lot of fans. Tesla owners tend to be its biggest evangelists, and its unique moves garner a lot of attention in the tech media.
Tesla also has a huge foothold among the celebrities, which gives its cars an extra oomph of credibility among the general populace. Celebrities like Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Ben Affleck, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Kevin Pollak, Mark Ruffalo, Jay Leno, James Hetfield (pictured above) and many many others have all been seen with their Tesla car in public.
Having the hype and the reputation to back it up certainly helps with a goal as ambitious as making electric vehicles the future of transportation. With all of the other elements on this list it wraps up a serious argument for why Tesla is poised to succeed in achieving this dream.
Magnus Thunderson
now if tesla can bring the price down to 35k or less with the Tesla 3 that would be a big step as currently Nissan no long has a surplus but a 3 month waiting list and growing and within 2015 lizard battery and there new policy of free charring stations but the lizard battery is not any bigger just better suited for hotter temp like Tampa so still suck at about 80 miles which is just to short of a range so until they get up to at least 125-150 min as both high heat and very cold weather effect the range as well as the age of the battery
ejhr
This gentleman is most certainly NOT starting from first principles! Otherwise he would show he understands the exponential equation and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. he would understand our civilization has already started its slide to destruction and that going to mars or space are pipe dreams. We won’t even be able to keep going with what we have now as the exponential growth in population and consumption will hit a wall, i.e., a finite planet real soon now. we are heading for a resource poor world,a low tech environment with expensive food also probably scarce as well.
Fun times ahead!Not!
WillSpencer
You’re still promoting the two-hundred year old and repetitively disproven Malthusian Fallacy?
ejhr
It’s not ever disproven, just delayed. Don’t tell me you are ignorant of the exponential equation too? [Mind you, most are]
zahid
i have forgotten my paasword as well as not have access to alternate id and i m using other phone number so how can i recover my paasword
salvador
BMW and Mercedes are introducing their electric cars just to show Tesla that they can make it too.
Big car companies are playing catchup.
David Ouyang
Great picture of a car. It is nice to have an ambition which might change the world.
I have heard of many alternative fuels that can run a car, such as grass clippings, algae, etc.
Which alternative fuel will take dominance? I think it is too early to tell. I hope that we will not end up with so many alternatives that we will burden the car manufacturers with building cars to accommodate all fuels. I think though that the government will choose one for us.