Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked

Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by babyrainbow on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:44PM (#13041403)

>especially down the curve, maintenance costs for electric cars will be substantially less and lifetimes...

There was a time when the maintenance cost of cars (traditional) were little. Things changed because now things are made to fail after sometime aka planned obsolescence.

Do you think electric car companies will be different?

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by jessaustin on Friday November 25, 2016 @10:25PM (#13041543)

Did you ever own such a car? Did you find the regular tuneups (points, plugs, distributor, vacuum, etc...) to constitute "little maintenance"?

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by babyrainbow on Friday November 25, 2016 @10:37PM (#13041594)

>Did you ever own such a car?

I did. It did't require "regular tuneups". You pour petrol and plain tap water for coolant in the radiator and the thing just goes...When it get stuck, you open the hood and take a peek, pull some wires, adjust some plugs and it goes again...

I don't recall any really expensive repair work in the 15 years that we owned that car.

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by bsder on Saturday November 26, 2016 @12:15AM (#13041850)

> There was a time when the maintenance cost of cars (traditional) were little.

And those same engines had no power.

If you want a Model T engine, it's really uncomplicated.

You just won't be able to drive on any modern highway.

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