[DeTomaso] Tesla Drivers???
Will Kooiman
will.kooiman at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 08:38:17 EDT 2022
The batteries are a real problem.
My 2001 Honda Insight got 73mpg when it was new. It drove like a typical compact.
The battery pack died at 70K miles. The cost to replace was $4K at the dealer. I did it myself for $1.2K. As stated, you can buy a lot of gas for $1.2K.
The second battery pack died after another 60K miles. This time I replaced it with a "better battery". It was $1K.
The third battery pack died after another 60K miles. I replaced it one final time. This one lasted about 50K miles.
We put 250K miles on the Insight. We loved the car. I just got turned off at having to change batteries, plus as they age, they take longer to charge. That's from my experience, anyway.
Those doing math realize 70K + 60K + 60K + 50K = 240K. For the other 10K, we drove with a dead battery. Yes, you can do that on this type of hybrid. The battery only serves as to boost the engine under high load situations - acceleration, passing, etc. It's a real turd without the battery.
Btw, I don't know if they're still doing it, but there was a company that converted Honda Insights to a Honda S2000 drivetrain - and they still got 40-45mpg!! So, a big part of the Insight's MPG is the aero, plus the weight. They were under 2,000 lbs.
On 9/3/22, 7:56 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Julian Kift" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:
Although EV batteries are expensive, the invoice is for a
first-generation Chevy Volt NiMH battery, it's an antique for which GM
no longer supports or manufacturers the battery. If you are determined
to keep an old obsolete antique on the road it can add up.....!
Some of the OEM's are developing swappable cells so there won't be a
need to replace the whole unit for a defective cell. The average modern
Li-ion battery has 3,500+ charge life, with a range of 400 miles,
that's 1.4M miles or 93 years for the average driver of 15,000 miles
annually.
Julian
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To: Konrad Szwab <kszwab at gmail.com>; Detomaso List
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tesla Drivers???
You can buy a lot of gas for $27,000:
On Friday, September 2, 2022 at 01:57:05 PM PDT, Larry Stock
<larrys at panteraparts.com> wrote:
I think Electric cars have their place in society just like Trucks and
golf carts do.
Larry
On 9/2/22, 1:49 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Konrad Szwab"
<detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
kszwab at gmail.com> wrote:
I think electric cars are the way of the future, for better or
worse,
due to governmental regulation. I hate my cars being demonized by
these
arrogant "holier than thou" hypocrites, personally, although at
some
point I do plan to get an electric car just to get used to it. I
think
as commuter cars for going to work they are great and that is
about it.
I still recall about a year ago the pissed off looks a Tesla
driving
dude was giving me when my now dead truck was idling nicely with
the
exhaust perfectly placed near his open window at a stoplight. The
V8
being a straight pipe the noise was an added factor for Konrad
enjoying
himself being a total ass :)
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 3:42 PM Julian Kift
<[1]julian_kift at hotmail.com>
wrote:
A A Yes, I see that often now, there's a proliferation of
Tesla's
here in
A A Reno with the Gigafactory close by.
A A I drove my first Tesla about a month ago in Montreal,
rental
cars were
A A in high demand, and all they had available was a Tesla 3.
Once
I
A A figured out the card (key) swipe to make it work it was
easy. I
have to
A A say that rush and pinning to the seat as you press the go
pedal
hard is
A A exhilarating, but (and it's a big butt) everything else
was
just
A A boring, there is literally nothing else to get excited
about,
it has no
A A soul, it gets you from A to B in a utilitarian there's an
'app
for
A A that' kind of way. On the interaction side I found it
annoying
more
A A than anything (in a kind of nagging wife way) and I ended
up
navigating
A A using my iPhone for a more direct route.
A A So, to answer your question, I think it's more of a case
of the
only
A A pleasure one can derive from driving a Tesla is the
instantaneous
A A torque away from the lights, after that the battery
efficiency
warning
A A light comes on and one is chastised into fictitiously
saving
the planet
A A once more.
A A Julian
A A
A
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A A From: DeTomaso
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A A Corey Price <[3]coreyjprice at gmail.com>
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A A Subject: [DeTomaso] Tesla Drivers???
A A So reading about Konrad's unfortunate experience, he
mentioned
A A something about Tesla drivers. I have had multiple Tesla
drivers
A A wanting to race me since I got my Pantera on the street.
The
first one
A A was interesting and I let him go, not wanting to race on
the
street.
A A The next few got annoying and I wanted nothing to do with
that.
I'll
A A enjoy my car the way I want to, thank you. Anyone else
experienced this
A A sudden desire of Tesla owners to race you?
A A Corey
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