07-28-2013, 07:40 PM
Nossir, I don't like it.
I don't see electric cars going mainstream anytime soon (like, next 30 years). Way too much infrastructure required. By the time you start talking about spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure you might as well just invest in some sort of urban redesign or some sort of people-mover system that's not based on cars at all.
Some sort of "wow" development in the field of portable energy could change things but even having to plug in your car at all is going to be a huge barrier to anyone not in a single family home, which, I think it's safe to say, will automatically exclude most people in America. (Maybe if you could run a car for 5 hours on a battery the size of a suitcase, weighing no more than 40 pounds... then we'd see some shit happen.)
You might as well invest in someone who claims to have an idea on how to build a warp drive.
And frankly, if electric cars do take off, I bet Toyota will sell more of them than Tesla.
I feel like Netflix has a greater chance of being the next Apple than Tesla. There's definitely big changes coming in how people get access to television and movies and Netflix stands poised to either blow the doors off or implode, depending on how things go. (Blow the doors off = more people pick it up and their international ventures take off. Implode = networks band together to create an upstart competitor that actually doesn't suck.)
I don't see electric cars going mainstream anytime soon (like, next 30 years). Way too much infrastructure required. By the time you start talking about spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure you might as well just invest in some sort of urban redesign or some sort of people-mover system that's not based on cars at all.
Some sort of "wow" development in the field of portable energy could change things but even having to plug in your car at all is going to be a huge barrier to anyone not in a single family home, which, I think it's safe to say, will automatically exclude most people in America. (Maybe if you could run a car for 5 hours on a battery the size of a suitcase, weighing no more than 40 pounds... then we'd see some shit happen.)
You might as well invest in someone who claims to have an idea on how to build a warp drive.
And frankly, if electric cars do take off, I bet Toyota will sell more of them than Tesla.
I feel like Netflix has a greater chance of being the next Apple than Tesla. There's definitely big changes coming in how people get access to television and movies and Netflix stands poised to either blow the doors off or implode, depending on how things go. (Blow the doors off = more people pick it up and their international ventures take off. Implode = networks band together to create an upstart competitor that actually doesn't suck.)