Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Future cars

[LtWacko (ltwacko]

Even the very first mass produced car, the Model T, kept dropping it's price year after year.  Give it time and prices will drop and we will think how did we ever get along with just one power source for a car.  Think "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future II.  I can see it now.  Go to a bar, get wasted and then pee into the tank to get home...  or would that be expensive Ferrari technology?

 

Rodney

 

PS.  Mike, I'd come by on one of my bikes if you were stranded and drop off a couple of AA batteries...  :-)

 

 

 

In a message dated 05/21/10 13:19:13 Central Daylight Time, ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

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Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:00:37 -0700
From: "Hans E. Hansen" <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Have your cake and eat it too!
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Uh, well, not really.

Spend a bit of time on the Tesla website.  The battery pack is MUCH more
than just
batteries.  It contains a full cooling/heating system, as well as highly
complex
proprietary electronics.  The individual cells are not replaceable.  It
would require
a complete new battery system, which would have to be sourced from Tesla,
unless they choose to license the technology involved to others.

Hans.

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10 :03 AM, Michael James <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com
> wrote:

>   Batteries is Batteries - Duracell, Energizer, Optima, Interstate, etc.
> will all want to get-into that BIG market and sell you batteries for your
> car - every future WalMart, Autozone, Pep Boys, Tire Rack, Batteris
> Plus, and Target will have them in-stock, 24/7.  How many different sizes
> for Camera and Watch batteries are there?  About a dozen or two?  Did
> variety kill the market?  Nope.  Silly argument.  Real Capitalists are
> excited by the prospects.
>
> M
>