Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Future cars

Yep and I still feel ripped off with the 21st century...

Were the hell is my damned flying car already?  Wasn't it supposed to be 

available by now and run on those AA batteries?

Jeez.

LtWacko wrote:

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:

    Message: 7
    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!
    To: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
    Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
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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
    >

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Re: Future cars	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Mike Fleischer (themightytoegmail.com)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT)