The New Electric Car

Gas is expensive.

On this week's episode of TWiT (this week in tech), jason calacanis talked briefly about driving his new electric car, the Tesla. I agree with him in that if "we" put our minds to it, we could have everyone driving electric cars sooner rather than later. I started telling people that the gasoline engine was dead when gas hit 3.00. I noticed once it hit 3.50, the media has started pushing alternative cars as well. I've become a jackass and have been telling people they'll never buy a gas powered car again.

here's the calacanis clip...



I wonder if his numbers are right 250 miles on 4 bucks of electricity? i thought electric cars would be a lot more expensive. this makes the transition even an easier decision. I thought plug-in electric cars might lose out to some other stupid thing like hydrogen or biodiesel or something due to cost. but maybe electric cars are cheap. remember, the maintenance costs are a lot less than gas engines.

In several years, look for stories questioning whether the power grids can handle the increased demand from cars. power companies should start planning ahead, but they probably won't.

Also look for some whining about how the coal factories providing the electricity powering the cars will still cause pollution, but these stories will die quick. maybe because of solar panels that also seem to be an improving technology - as jason mentions.

twit is a great podcast. calacanis is interesting to follow and his mahalo.com search site is interesting. check them out.