Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Times article on Model S range was fake

I wonder, would any normal person's response be to someone who said to them,

"I drove my SUV out into the middle of the desert yesterday with only 2 gallons of gas in it. Would you believe it ran out of gas in the middle of no-where and I had to call the AAA to rescue me! These gas cars are junk!"

Unfortunately, separating stupidity from motor-journalists seems to be difficult. Why on Earth would they decide to stay overnight where they couldn't plug the EV in? That is basic EV driving 101.
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I don't know about you, but I commute to work 24 miles times 2 everyday. And I been doing it for 7 years. Gas right now in Los Angeles is 3.94 premium. (24*2)*5*52=~12480 miles a year and not counting the days I go to school or go out.. I'm roughly spending $70 a week for gasoline. 70 times 52 is ~$3,640, so yeah that's around how much I spend a year. If I had solar panels on my roof and the Tesla model S... only in dreams my friend... only in dreams.

I'm spending 300 euro a month on petrol, which is relatively low, by local standards, as we have it at 1.60 euro a liter, which in your measurement is 8.15 USD per US gallon. How about that?

But the main thing I appreciate in a car - reliability, and sometimes - performance. To swap that for something that might work on occasion - doesn't sound very good to me

So you see, we all have different dreams

Maybe in the states solar panels cost $100 but here in South Africa it takes a long time before the panel has covered itself and you have dams there but here most of them are coal, in fact Eskom wants to build two more coal power stations.
In South Africa we have summer temps of 40+ and winter temps of -0 so the batteries will probably be replaced every 5 years if not sooner and I'm sure they aren't cheap.

I'm not sure how it is in the States with hybrids but here in SA a Prius cost R381000(about$42000) has a fuel consumption of 4,1 L\100km(57mpg) and it has a CO2 of 94 yet you can buy a Golf 1,6tdi Bluemotion for R284000($32000) has a fuel consumption of 3,8L\100km(61.8mpg) and a CO2 of 99 or you could buy the polo Bluemotion which is even lighter on fuel burns cleaner than a Prius and is still R95000 cheaper than the Golf and is still a better car than the Prius.

The only manufacturers out there doing good work are BMW and Honda,Hydrogen is the way forward not cars that rely on been plugged into a wall socket to get power.

Well, it sounds like a lot of you have watched the Top Gear Episode where they test the Leaf etc...
As you can clearly see, they are absolutely useless in the UK!

I think it depends on where you live to be honest, In America you get a lot more sun than we do, making Solar Panels viable. Its also below 10C for two thirds of the year which doesn't help. Plus we pay much more here for electricity than America in general. Again as per what Top Gear tested, it costs just as much if not more to charge an electric car in the UK than to fill a decent Oil Burner, but the Oil Burner can get you 500+ Miles, the Electric car you'd be extremely hard pressed to get half of that.

I also find £30K for a Leaf is Audi territory, no offense but I would pickup the Oil Burning Audi any day over some silly Electric car that isn't half as capable, fun or indeed, as nice to drive or sit in.

I'm sorry that you don't know many production cars.

The Leaf is one of the 3 best cornering and accelerating cars under 100k that you know of? I own a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, so there's one, and the Nissan GTR is tied as the 2nd fastest accelerating production car, priced just a hair under 100k. That doesn't even begin to consider the list of cars out there that could out perform the leaf in these two categories, those are just two cars that I'm interested in. While I believe that electric cars are great and the way of the future, this statement is just wrong.

You believe commercials? LOL.

No, which is why I related it to your post.