Future Car
March 4th, 2008 | Posted in Design, Ideas, Transportation
The technology that makes this car go “weeeeeee!” is the future. Everyone and everything that stands in the way of it becoming mainstream is a domestic freakin’ terrorist. Yes, I said it, domestic freakin’ terrorist.
While the combustion engine is responsible for a great many successes, it will also be the end of us if it isn’t replaced.
Combustion technology is wasteful, inefficient and heavily pollutive. It hasn’t evolved in 100 years and every effort that’s been made to make it better has been thwarted by the oil industry and/or the automotive industry. The need to power it has led to wars and split this country in two. Further, insistence on its preservation has created the unbelievable ignorant hype around ethanol. My brain hurts just thinking about how easy it is to change everything, in an instant.
The car in question, the Tesla, currently costs $98,000, which is obviously out of most people’s price range. Of course, this is how all new technology starts. The great thing about the car is that it’s starting to grab the attention of the large automakers.
Funny thing is that if Tesla can start making sedans for $20,000, they’d put every car maker on the planet out of business in a decade. And purely from an environmental perspective, I hope it does.
It’s so pretty!
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