GTP Cool Wall: Tesla Model S. Voting Open!

The styling is awesome - but I'm a strong believer that hydrogen is the way forward. Therefore, that Honda FCX is cooler than this, but this is still...

cool.

Tesla finally realise how to make an electric car. Cool, but not sub-zero.

Uncool. It's all electric instead of hydrogen. I like the design even though it looks like the cobbled something together from Maserati, Aston Martin, Porsche, and Audi.

Uncool. It's another electric car. Wake me up when they can actually constantly perform the figures they publish.

Seriously uncool.

Simply for the electric drive

Aside from the batteries, chassis, and electronics, It's no different a concept from the '35 Detroit Electric I saw at the Wheels o' Time Museum.



Just slides over the uncool line. 49.999999999999999% (Arbitrary rating GO!!!!)

Sub-zero! Look at that dash... that would frighten elderly people.
I’d love to own an I-pod touch with 4 doors. 👍

That interior is pretty cool.

Wheeeeeeee!

Not voting.

Am 50:50 on this. For one thing, it's a more serious car than the seriously uncool Tesla Roadster... and it looks good, to boot.

It has the right performance numbers... minus the range... which doesn't matter too much... if you can afford this, you've probably got other cars... and top speed... (second gear... please?) for a car in that price range... so buyers won't feel that they've had to sacrifice too much in not buying a Lexus...

Ah... what the hell... uncool.

Looks good. But it's electric. I don't even want to imagine the douchebaggery that will be sitting in Model S driver's seats.

Seriously Uncool.

niky

minus the range... which doesn't matter too much... if you can afford this, you've probably got other cars...

Click to expand...

Which makes the whole concept pointless.

Considering it would probably require charging overnight, i don't know if i can consider this car useful at all. Uncool.

It looks ok outside, but i don't like the whole interior. Like the new GT-R, parts of the interior look dated. That screen, mainly. It just looks off.

Styling very generic,I'm sure VERY overpriced,Chevy Volt has this one beat.

Styling is good... a bit of Aston Rapide, a bit of Mazda 6, a hint of Maserati.

If it delivers on the performance claims and has a decent range then it would be cool... but invariably electric cars don't.

I'll reserve judgement until we know what it's actually capable of.

For those saying it's uncool because it's not hydrogen powered... sort of right, but the technollogy just doesn't exit in a cost effective form to make hydrogen powered cars feasible... so you can't really criticise this car for not being fulled by hydrogen.

Hmm, and where does the electricity come from for this?

Pointless, I'll stick with fossil fuels or alcohol until hydrogen is more feasible.

See, if people weren't so worried about Nuclear energy, it would be cool, but nuclear fusion isn't readily available yet either and fission isn't very environmentally friendly.

Seriously uncool 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288…%

Ardius

Hmm, and where does the electricity come from for this?

Pointless, I'll stick with fossil fuels or alcohol until hydrogen is more feasible.

See, if people weren't so worried about Nuclear energy, it would be cool, but nuclear fusion isn't readily available yet either and fission isn't very environmentally friendly.

Click to expand...

And where does the power to crack hydrogen come from?

-

Nuclear Fission, actually, isn't all that cost-effective, either... though if oil gets too expensive, it might make a limited comeback.

TheCracker

Which makes the whole concept pointless.

Click to expand...

What? Like an A-List Celebrity's Prius?

Cool. An electric car that is actually great-looking, practical, and and pushes the boundaries for greater range in electrics. People would just look at it, not knowing its electric and say "cool", hence, it is cool.

Cool for the exterior and sub-zero for the interior, so, i voted cool...

Cool, because it's electric, which I believe is the future, not hydrogen.

Actually, it isn't cool because of that. It's cool because people don't care that it's an electric car - it performs well, doesn't look like Prius, gets a pretty good range, seats a full complement of people, and the brand has a good image.

In other words, it's cool despite being an electric car.

homeforsummer

Cool, because it's electric, which I believe is the future, not hydrogen.

Actually, it isn't cool because of that. It's cool because people don't care that it's an electric car - it performs well, doesn't look like Prius, gets a pretty good range, seats a full complement of people, and the brand has a good image.

Click to expand...

The only problem with electric cars is that they rely on the grid's power system, which is still for the most part fueled with coal. I also have to imagine there will be a huge strain on the grid if we all start drawing a bunch of power each night to charge our cars.

Electric might work in parts of the world, but here in the states I doubt it'll ever be feasible. Many of us have pretty long commutes to and from work so I don't know how easy it would be for us or if we'd ever subscribe to the idea. I don't like the idea of having to wait several hours for my car to charge up, I want to put something in an and be off again in a matter of minutes.

Seriously uncool. I'm a mechanic, not computer geek.

Am I the only one that see the irony in that post considering your signature, mentioning a particular car?

Yes. I won't explain why, but yes, you're probably alone with that one.

Joey D

The only problem with electric cars is that they rely on the grid's power system, which is still for the most part fueled with coal. I also have to imagine there will be a huge strain on the grid if we all start drawing a bunch of power each night to charge our cars.

Electric might work in parts of the world, but here in the states I doubt it'll ever be feasible. Many of us have pretty long commutes to and from work so I don't know how easy it would be for us or if we'd ever subscribe to the idea. I don't like the idea of having to wait several hours for my car to charge up, I want to put something in an and be off again in a matter of minutes.

Click to expand...

And yet people never seem to realise that the whole oil and refuelling network also uses huge amounts of energy that are taken out of the equation with electric cars. "Electric cars still have to get their energy from somewhere" - well yes, obviously, but then so do oil rigs, refineries, petrol stations...

You're also making the same old assumption that technology will remain right where it is at the moment, as if there'll be no further improvements in range and recharging time.

It's also been mentioned, time and time again, that overnight there is a vast amount of electricity being produced that isn't being used. Unfortunately I can't back the following statement up, but I'm sure I heard somewhere that the grid could easily handle as many as 180 million electric cars being re-charged each night.

homeforsummer

And yet people never seem to realise that the whole oil and refuelling network also uses huge amounts of energy that are taken out of the equation with electric cars. "Electric cars still have to get their energy from somewhere" - well yes, obviously, but then so do oil rigs, refineries, petrol stations...

You're also making the same old assumption that technology will remain right where it is at the moment, as if there'll be no further improvements in range and recharging time.

It's also been mentioned, time and time again, that overnight there is a vast amount of electricity being produced that isn't being used. Unfortunately I can't back the following statement up, but I'm sure I heard somewhere that the grid could easily handle as many as 180 million electric cars being re-charged each night.

Click to expand...

My argument to this is rather than spending money on an electric car, it would probably be more green to use a normal car for emergencies and a bicycle or walking where possible. The electric car still uses fossil fuels in the end and the benefit of producing less polution locally will always be outweighed by this.
But, if the electric car is fuelled by a fusion reactor, then I'm all for it. Problem is we haven't sorted fusion out yet.

None of this is particularly cool unless you're a physics teacher though.

niky

And where does the power to crack hydrogen come from?

Click to expand...

From nuclear fusion. Seriously, if we solve that, we solve everything.

This has inevitably turned into yet another hydrogen vs. electric thread, but I'll play along.

To add to what homeforsummer posted, electric cars are also pretty much future-proof; it doesn't matter if they get their energy from coal, nuclear fission, fusion or whatever, if the source of energy for the power grid changes, electric cars will not have to change. Whereas gas powered cars will inevitably need to convert to the next power source, or they get thrown in the scrapheap.

I came up with an idea for extending electric car ranges the other day, you know those electric buses that utilize power lines hanging over the street? Why not build a similar infrastructure for electric cars? It could be a thin metal strip in the middle of the lanes on freeways, that could be used by some magnetic metal thing hanging from the bottom of the car, to power it and charge it. You could have a 300 mile range battery for off-freeway driving and have infinite range on these metal strips. That would make commuting a breeze.

Obviously, that means the government would have to build infrastructure for electric freeways, etc. But it's something to think about.