Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car
by ZeroGravitas on Sunday February 17, 2013 @10:42AM
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These electric car reviews are beginning to remind me of Window users reviewing the Linux Desktop. Particularly this bit:
"I considered stopping in Milford, CT, for a quick "supercharge" as I had a few days earlier, but changed my mind in the spirit of my experiment. I knew the distance to my office was 55 miles at that point, so I decided to risk taking one for the team to determine the Model S real-world range when it's cold outside and you drive the car as you would any other car, electric or not. Call me a gambler, but I kept cruising and crossed my fingers."
He intentionally didn't refuel when he had the chance, but believes this is the same as how he drives a non-electric car. That's insane. But he's so used to the gasoline paradigm (where you can currently refuel in many more places) that he doesn't even realise how crazy he is.
As I said, it's not much different from the person reviewing Linux who (in a Windows mindset) goes looking for downloads of LibreOffice on their website and ends up trying and failing to compile it from source or some other crazy thing that no actual Linux user would do.
"I considered stopping in Milford, CT, for a quick "supercharge" as I had a few days earlier, but changed my mind in the spirit of my experiment. I knew the distance to my office was 55 miles at that point, so I decided to risk taking one for the team to determine the Model S real-world range when it's cold outside and you drive the car as you would any other car, electric or not. Call me a gambler, but I kept cruising and crossed my fingers."
He intentionally didn't refuel when he had the chance, but believes this is the same as how he drives a non-electric car. That's insane. But he's so used to the gasoline paradigm (where you can currently refuel in many more places) that he doesn't even realise how crazy he is.
As I said, it's not much different from the person reviewing Linux who (in a Windows mindset) goes looking for downloads of LibreOffice on their website and ends up trying and failing to compile it from source or some other crazy thing that no actual Linux user would do.