Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked

Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by grecy on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:22PM (#13039942)

> Once you factor in the cost of the home charging station(and the required charging infra) and the battery and other electric components ,electric cars are(and will stay) more expensive ,meaningfully than ICE-cars. And ICE cars are much more reliable , they don't need an expensive battery swap every 5 years.

Once you factor in the cost of initial purchase (and the the new cables required) and the case and other attachments, touch-screen phones are (and will stay) more expensive, meaningfully than flip-phones. And flip phones are much more reliable, they don't have a screen that breaks when you drop it, etc.

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by eridius on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:27PM (#13039977)

Not really a valid comparison. Flip phones basically do just one thing, which is make calls or SMS. Calls and texts are just a very minor part of what smartphones do. It's actually a little surprising we still call them smartphones at all. If you downgrade from a smartphone to a flipphone, you've lost an incredible amount of functionality.

Meanwhile, electric cars, while nicer in many ways than ICEs, still fundamentally perform the same task. And if you downgrade from an electric to an ICE, you haven't lost any functionality.

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by icebraining on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:15PM (#13040585)

That's just not true, many flip-phones ran S60, which had most of the features of a current smartphone: camera, music player, web access (full, not WAP) over 3G and WiFi, running downloadable apps, GPS, etc.

I was running a podcast downloading app and writing Python scripts on my E65 before the iPhone even had the Store.

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