I can see a future with electric cars, hydrogen cars, gas and diesel. Captalism is about options.
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I agree in the short term, but with technology advancing the way it is, I really donât see gas and diesel having any significant benefit over electric/fuel cell on cars. Letâs say theoretically you could charge an electric car to a 200 mile range in 5 minutes (about as long as it takes to pump a tank of gas), would electric then be a fully viable replacement?
Iâm not saying youâre wrong, just legitimately trying to understand what the benefits of gas would be assuming technology improves at the rate it is.
If it were up to pure capitalism, the cars would run on an unlimited cheap supply of proletariat blood 
the advantage of gas is itâs abundance, energy density and low price. imagine gas prices if electric cars were to drive fuel prices down.
I think we are a long way from 200 miles in 5 minutes. Lots of reasons why ranging from having to dispose of a massive amount of heat to the impact on the life span of the current batteries. But clearly folks will keep working on this problem. Tesla is the current gold standard with the ability to get to 80% of charge in 30 minutes- figure that to be about 200 miles for a 75D model S. To get to 5 minutes is asking to do the job 6 times faster. That is not just a minor improvement- that is a major revolution.
But even if we get to that there are advantages to gas. Example- what happens when the power grid fails? Think bad storm/hurricane or major earthquake. Gas is also useful in more remote areas where it it is difficult to supply the required power for quick charging.
i would like to see a battery rental system where you can hit an exchange station to swap batteries. it could be faster than gas and you dont own the battery.
However, some people only use excel to car shop. A Leaf is smart but hideous. I donât choose cars based on whether it will âpencil outâ. car choices are emotional for many people. I would buy a gas car just to hear it rev.
Itâs a viable solution for e-scooter already: Gogoro Smart Energy. Itâs just too hard to modularized the battery packs for cars.
Tesla already had a battery swap pilot. It failed miserably and they arenât continuing it.
Was that the same program where you had to pay to ship your battery back to your house at the end of your trip? I remember Tesla had that for cross country trips. Not the same concept because you would own your battry in that scenario. In my mind, I do not want to own my battery nor charge it.
Hereâs some info on it⌠http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shuts-down-battery-swap-program-for-superchargers/
From my understanding, the battery was just swapped out, not shipped back or anything like that. The concern was that you would get an older battery with more miles on it, so I guess it failed miserably. These battery swap ideas were great in theory, but in the end people wanted to own their own batteries and know what theyâve been through. I think in the end it wonât matter because battery charging speeds are increasing at ridiculous rates. As soon as youâre able to charge to a 200 mile range in minutes instead of hours, the whole benefit of filling up a gas tank quicker will be a non-issue.
This looks awesome. Yea itâs really too bad you canât do this with cars. Maybe some day the batteries will be small enough?
No buttons or dashboard makes it very risky interior design
yea, makes me really nervous. It seems like everyone on the Tesla forums are freaking out about it. Even Elon Musk responded to someoneâs tweet about it and he just responded âyou wonât careâ. Iâm really not sure what thatâs supposed to mean but so far Tesla has been pretty successful providing a really good driving experience, so hopefully weâll all agree with him once it gets released.
Yeah, weird. Not sure how Iâd feel about driving this one. Why not to have at least some kind of display in the usual place 
Heads. Up. Display.
BMW has been doing it since like 2006 so the tech is over 10 years old already. I for one welcome it as itâs so much better than looking down to see information displayed.
sadly Musk said itâs not going to have a HUD either. 
Thatâs whatâs making everyone so nervous. A HUD would be a perfectly reasonable solution, but he tweeted that the Model 3 wouldnât have one. The only reason I could see Musk saying that you wonât care about a your instrument panel or HUD being right in front of you is that all Model 3s will come fully autonomous at launch. Even if that were the case, it still doesnât make sense to me.
Elon probably wonât be the CEO in 24 months or so ⌠I get the vibe heâs on the exit pathâŚ
That would be extremely surprising since Tesla is his baby. The only thing I could see him being equally passionate about is Space X and his mission to colonize Mars.
Just thought Iâd throw this out there for those of you who are curious about the car not having an instrument panel or HUD⌠http://www.xautoworld.com/tesla/no-need-hud-model-3-know-why/
Hopefully it works as well as theyâre suggesting.
LoLâŚ
âChris just wasnât the right fit for Tesla, and weâve decided to make a change,â a Tesla spokeswoman told Reuters in an email on Tuesday.
âTurns out that Tesla isnât a good fit for me after all,â Lattner, who worked at Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for more than a decade before joining Tesla in January, tweeted. âIâm interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!â
Iâm not so sure he âquitâ. Definitely not a good sign either way.