Wow...there is a commitment to electric vehicles

[HyperMOA]

Originally Posted by normstad

Supercharge stations in Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary. One can literally drive from Florida to Edmonton and always have been in range of a Supercharger, plus a ton of destination chargers such as in hotels.

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/findus#/...er&name=Canada

There isn't one near Regina. So I guess you can take one path from Edmonton to Florida. I hope you didn't plan on seeing Iowa I guess.

[normstad]

Originally Posted by HyperMOA

There isn't one near Regina. So I guess you can take one path from Edmonton to Florida. I hope you didn't plan on seeing Iowa I guess.

Going through Montana is not the worst thing in the world. The point is, already there is an infrastructure in place that one doesn't have to be concerned. Tesla is going to increasing that infrastructure.

One sure sees a lot of them in Arizona and California. Imagine all that A/C that needs to be run, and does. Are they answer for every situation? Not yet, but don't be surprised to see many electric vehicles on the road within 10 years. Want free power? Put in a solar panel at home.

[HyperMOA]

Originally Posted by normstad

Going through Montana is not the worst thing in the world. The point is, already there is an infrastructure in place that one doesn't have to be concerned. Tesla is going to increasing that infrastructure.

One sure sees a lot of them in Arizona and California. Imagine all that A/C that needs to be run, and does. Are they answer for every situation? Not yet, but don't be surprised to see many electric vehicles on the road within 10 years. Want free power? Put in a solar panel at home.

Yep, infrastructure is being built but its still paltry. You have to choose routes carefully and rent $200 a night hotel rooms; where I can switch off drivers and travel 24 hours straight, and not give a second thought about where I need to fuel.

Your second paragraph I 100% agree with wholeheartedly. It has been my very point in most of my posts on this thread. Which is why I find it so strange that people tell me its already better than a conventional vehicle, yet nobody owns one on this thread?????

[CaberTosser]

Good points Elkster, but many will bury their heads in the sand when confronted with physics that counters their idealism. Sure these things will come about, but the cost to upgrading the electrical grid will be immense. We have people who tout their environmental superiority who also don't want to build parts of the necessary infrastructure to support such paradigm shifts. People are against the site C dam that could help power their idealism-mobiles.

With the intermittent nature of solar and wind power of course there needs to be built-in redundancy in the form of natural gas power generation, I could predict that when those power plant outputs are scaled back during times when the alternate sources are at peak output that government officials will calculate their produced output when noting percentages produced by the other sources so as to make the alternative source percentages look better.

My big question is why aren't these cars covered with solar panels in the first place?