I believe it was Kevin Rose who argued that Tesla might become an energy company if their charging infrastructure becomes an industry standard. So companies like GM will pay Tesla to let GM cars use the Superchargers and swap stations.
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- Debt held by the public: $11.959 trillion. $5.6 trillion or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public is owned by foreign investors (the discussed article)
- Intragovernmental holdings: $4.846 trillion
- Three percent of all cars sold in Norway are electric, the same number in US is 0.1 percent.
- The number of electric cars on the Norwegian roads today is 7 000, and the total amount of cars is 2.4 million. The neighboring country Sweden has 4.4 million cars, but only 600 of those are electric.
- About 40 percent of those who own an electric car also own a gasoline car.
- The goal of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association is to have 100 000 electric cars in Norway within year 2020.
- The Norwegians have earlier tried to produce electric cars through the company Think Global. For the fourth time in twenty years, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
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Here's a picture of a SUV on the top of a Tesla Roadster, and it didn't begin to burn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16822508@N05/3995784846/sizes/l...
Source: his biography On Writing (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/...)
"Fisker thinks the most important thing in the world is design, so he outsourced the engineering and manufacturing. But the fact is that's the crux of the problem. And he's outsourcing to people who don't know how to solve the problem. So he came up with a product – it's a mediocre product at a high price. It looks good. Particularly from the side it looks good. I don't love the front. It looks too much like a caricature of a Mexican Bandito, the grille. The car looks very big, it's bigger than the Model S, but it has no trunk space and it's cramped inside, particularly in the rear seats. The mark of a good design is something that has great aesthetics and great functionality."
One paragraph from the book:
After the meetings ended, the conclusion was that it would be possible to build better rockets than had been made before. The experts were now convinced that SpaceX was different and wouldn't be yet another failed rocket company. "I essentially led them to a conclusion that they created," Elon said. "It was sort of a Socratic dialogue on a technical level. The essence of a Socratic dialogue is that people wind up convincing themselves. People are much more willing to change their opinion if you're not forcing it."
@alanctgardner2 I meant questions that will improve the material I have. You can always ask more questions, but I didn't want the book to be too long either. Well, I wrote it because he's an engineer and it's hard to find engineers that are role models, and I wrote it because he cares about peak oil and not so many others do.