[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by rubicon

As Telsa achieves its economies to scale the tax incentives will disappear and once that happens consumer are going to be experiencing sticker shock.

The Telsa3 is some 18 months until the first come off the production line. It has placed Telsa in a cash flow crunch especially since it is heavily funding other projects.

It also is involved in legal fights in 6 states that ban direct sales from auto maker to consumer.

There is no doubt the Telsa is a beautiful car but does it have staying power?

In that same vein NGV's offer the same reduction of greenhouses gases. Natural gas vehicles also ride on renewable methane gas captured from landfills. And you can drive farther distances on a tank and oh you won't be paying for new batteries that presently range from $5,000 to $50,000 to replace.

do I want Telsa to succeed of course

I agree. I don't know why we haven't been on a path to natural gas vehicles for the past thirty years. We have an abundance of the stuff right here. It's easier to get at than oil. We also have an infrastructure in place to get it to existing gas stations. It would take very little to run a line from the street into a filling stations and set up pumps. You wouldn't have the problems of having only 600 recharging stations worldwide or having to replace the batteries after few years. There's also the concern about damage done to the environment in the manufacture of batteries. There'd be no concern about range. In fact you could have a filling station in your own garage. Existing gasoline burning car engines can be converted to burn natural gas fairly easily.
To me, it's a no brainer advantage over electric vehicles.