Why can't we make the Tesla electric car today?

Question

For those who don't know, it is a car powered entirely by electricity, developed by Thomas Edison. It had a range of up to 500 miles, and was capable of speeds up to 90MPH, which was faster than the gasoline powered cars produced in that era.

Why, if they were capable of making it in the 1920s and '30s, are we not capable of making it now, 70 years later? I would imagine that we could make it even better!

Here you go Loran... http://www.keelynet.com/energy/teslafe1.htm

Now who's the moron?

Answer 1

Well, in short, we can, but won't. In explaination:

You probably won't be getting too many more answers on this, because Knights 93 hit the nail on the head!!! Too many power/money hungry people/corperations stiffle, and literally buy out the rights to any new possible competition to their BIG, FAT nest egg! A good example of this is the movie (based on a true story) "Tucker - a man and his dream." Discover magazine featured an article called re-inventing the wheel, and I believe that this is the main electricicity storeage device (which is EXTERMELY EFFICIENT) used in today's Hybrid electic/gas cars. The man who is responsible for this 'new' technology opined that there was simply NO NEED for a hybrid, this technology is ready to go full-tilt electric RIGHT NOW. The article ran approximately 10 Years ago, or less. There was also an article (in popular mechanics magazine, 3-5 yrs. ago) about a new kind of safe reactor that used a certain material that, when bombarded by X-rays, gives off MASSIVE AMOUNTS of Gamma Rays. The Gamma Rays were then used to super-heat the air in massive enough quanities to switch a conventional fuel jet turbine engine over to be powered simply by these massive amounts of super-heated air. The technology was being tested by the military to power Drone (un-manned) aircraft. Gamma rays are dangerous to be near....but have an extermely short half-life....they dissipate very rapidly with no ill effects to the environment. Well, I was wondering why not use these types of reactor-turbines to replace all the coal, hydro, and ESPECIALLY, Nuclear reactors to generate our electricity? It would SHATTER the Worlds dependancy on ALL other types of energy production.....! The answer, in my opinion.........? Too much money to spend (whiney, whiney cry-babyies!!) in the initial conversion to such types of reactors, and way too much money for the Big Wheels of our day to loose! They WON'T look to the future savings (ASTONOMICAL), BECAUSE the savings would mean stealing THEIR golden goose! They don't care about the benefits to the environment or the Global Community for the same Meglo-Maniacal reasons. I hope this helps. VERY INSIGHTFUL QUESTION!

sad to see so much ignorence in the world, Loran; root word-IGNORE, it is WILLFULL stupidity

Answer 2

i think it all has to do with money and the government. the car companies don't have trillions of dollars to spend on creating a new car like that, so they can't at the moment. that's why it took so long to create ANY kind of electric car. You might be thinking, "Well, yea, but doesn't the government have trillions to spend?" Yes, they do, but why would they give it to the car companies to create a fuel-efficiant car? They want to get more money for their oil, not have nobody spend on it. But we'll get our Einstein cars, don't you worry. They're coming.

Answer 3

I didn't see your question before but I like it! The difference is that Tesla had a limitless (in his description) supply of energy to draw from. No need for storage and such. Think of the weight savings!

Answer 4

Then we won't be giving the goverment fuel tax and all the oil companies wouldn't be able to have billion dollar retirment plans

Answer 5

Quick answer: money