Comments on: Electric Car Battery Prices Dropping Much Faster than Expected http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John_balls http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-14113 John_balls Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:11 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-14113 Oh tim give it a rest with your dogmatic rant about capitalism. I have nothing against people of wealth but cmon you sound like you just finished coming out of a rush limbaugh seminar. Oh tim give it a rest with your dogmatic rant about capitalism. I have nothing against people of wealth but cmon you sound like you just finished coming out of a rush limbaugh seminar.

]]> By: John_balls http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-37885 John_balls Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-37885 Oh tim give it a rest with your dogmatic rant about capitalism. I have nothing against people of wealth but cmon you sound like you just finished coming out of a rush limbaugh seminar. Oh tim give it a rest with your dogmatic rant about capitalism. I have nothing against people of wealth but cmon you sound like you just finished coming out of a rush limbaugh seminar.

]]> By: Jay Tee http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-14112 Jay Tee Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:49 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-14112 Tim Cleland- good point, I agree completely. I'm very poor, but I won't demonize rich people. They are the early adopters who will get the new energy economy going. Tim Cleland- good point, I agree completely.

I’m very poor, but I won’t demonize rich people. They are the early adopters who will get the new energy economy going.

]]> By: Jay Tee http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-37884 Jay Tee Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-37884 Tim Cleland- good point, I agree completely. I'm very poor, but I won't demonize rich people. They are the early adopters who will get the new energy economy going. Tim Cleland- good point, I agree completely.

I’m very poor, but I won’t demonize rich people. They are the early adopters who will get the new energy economy going.

]]> By: Houston Dav http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-14111 Houston Dav Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:33:29 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-14111 I am not rich but will be waiting in line for one of the first ones. Prices may come down in a few years but the 7.5k sub will be gone by then and in those three years I estimate a 6k savings on gas at current prices (2.85) in 3 years (I drive alot, 65 mile commute every day plus ~100 miles in the weekends just a trip to the mall is 44 miles round trip). So that would make a 13.5k savings in 3 years, will the car drop that much in price? Plus I will only have one more year of car payments, then the car starts paying me back in gas savings. At this rate the car would be free in 11 years. Less if gas keeps going up which it will. When was the last time you bought a brand new car and got your all your money back over time. I am not rich but will be waiting in line for one of the first ones. Prices may come down in a few years but the 7.5k sub will be gone by then and in those three years I estimate a 6k savings on gas at current prices (2.85) in 3 years (I drive alot, 65 mile commute every day plus ~100 miles in the weekends just a trip to the mall is 44 miles round trip). So that would make a 13.5k savings in 3 years, will the car drop that much in price? Plus I will only have one more year of car payments, then the car starts paying me back in gas savings. At this rate the car would be free in 11 years. Less if gas keeps going up which it will. When was the last time you bought a brand new car and got your all your money back over time.

]]> By: Houston Dav http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-37883 Houston Dav Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:33:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-37883 I am not rich but will be waiting in line for one of the first ones. Prices may come down in a few years but the 7.5k sub will be gone by then and in those three years I estimate a 6k savings on gas at current prices (2.85) in 3 years (I drive alot, 65 mile commute every day plus ~100 miles in the weekends just a trip to the mall is 44 miles round trip). So that would make a 13.5k savings in 3 years, will the car drop that much in price? Plus I will only have one more year of car payments, then the car starts paying me back in gas savings. At this rate the car would be free in 11 years. Less if gas keeps going up which it will. When was the last time you bought a brand new car and got your all your money back over time. I am not rich but will be waiting in line for one of the first ones. Prices may come down in a few years but the 7.5k sub will be gone by then and in those three years I estimate a 6k savings on gas at current prices (2.85) in 3 years (I drive alot, 65 mile commute every day plus ~100 miles in the weekends just a trip to the mall is 44 miles round trip). So that would make a 13.5k savings in 3 years, will the car drop that much in price? Plus I will only have one more year of car payments, then the car starts paying me back in gas savings. At this rate the car would be free in 11 years. Less if gas keeps going up which it will. When was the last time you bought a brand new car and got your all your money back over time.

]]> By: Tim Cleland http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-14110 Tim Cleland Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:09:45 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-14110 "However, for the early adopters out there, they might feel the burn of buying something that can be bought for half the price 3 years later (any early iPhone owners out there care to weigh in on how this feels?)" I would just like to add that this is just one more circumstance in which having "rich people" around is really nice. For all the political demonization of "rich people" these days, they not only are the ones who create jobs, but they are the ones that take that initial hit on new technology and make things like microwave ovens, computers, HD-TVs, and electric cars affordable for the rest of us. Do they do it out of the goodness of their heart? No, they do it because it improves their own lives. That's the very basis of capitalism. “However, for the early adopters out there, they might feel the burn of buying something that can be bought for half the price 3 years later (any early iPhone owners out there care to weigh in on how this feels?)”

I would just like to add that this is just one more circumstance in which having “rich people” around is really nice. For all the political demonization of “rich people” these days, they not only are the ones who create jobs, but they are the ones that take that initial hit on new technology and make things like microwave ovens, computers, HD-TVs, and electric cars affordable for the rest of us. Do they do it out of the goodness of their heart? No, they do it because it improves their own lives. That’s the very basis of capitalism.

]]> By: Tim Cleland http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-37882 Tim Cleland Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:09:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-37882 "However, for the early adopters out there, they might feel the burn of buying something that can be bought for half the price 3 years later (any early iPhone owners out there care to weigh in on how this feels?)" I would just like to add that this is just one more circumstance in which having "rich people" around is really nice. For all the political demonization of "rich people" these days, they not only are the ones who create jobs, but they are the ones that take that initial hit on new technology and make things like microwave ovens, computers, HD-TVs, and electric cars affordable for the rest of us. Do they do it out of the goodness of their heart? No, they do it because it improves their own lives. That's the very basis of capitalism. “However, for the early adopters out there, they might feel the burn of buying something that can be bought for half the price 3 years later (any early iPhone owners out there care to weigh in on how this feels?)”

I would just like to add that this is just one more circumstance in which having “rich people” around is really nice. For all the political demonization of “rich people” these days, they not only are the ones who create jobs, but they are the ones that take that initial hit on new technology and make things like microwave ovens, computers, HD-TVs, and electric cars affordable for the rest of us. Do they do it out of the goodness of their heart? No, they do it because it improves their own lives. That’s the very basis of capitalism.

]]> By: 4r4nd0mninj4 http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-14109 4r4nd0mninj4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:42 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-14109 We are all aware of how prices fall with tech. No longer are we going to be stuck with cars based off 100 year old mentalities. On the bright side, when your battery finally dies you can go out and get a much better one for much less. I for one would get the smallest battery I could stand and just wait for it to die, then upgrade to a bigger battery at half the cost of the first one. We are all aware of how prices fall with tech. No longer are we going to be stuck with cars based off 100 year old mentalities. On the bright side, when your battery finally dies you can go out and get a much better one for much less. I for one would get the smallest battery I could stand and just wait for it to die, then upgrade to a bigger battery at half the cost of the first one.

]]> By: 4r4nd0mninj4 http://gas2.org/2010/03/09/electric-car-battery-prices-dropping-much-faster-than-expected/#comment-37881 4r4nd0mninj4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=5757#comment-37881 We are all aware of how prices fall with tech. No longer are we going to be stuck with cars based off 100 year old mentalities. On the bright side, when your battery finally dies you can go out and get a much better one for much less. I for one would get the smallest battery I could stand and just wait for it to die, then upgrade to a bigger battery at half the cost of the first one. We are all aware of how prices fall with tech. No longer are we going to be stuck with cars based off 100 year old mentalities. On the bright side, when your battery finally dies you can go out and get a much better one for much less. I for one would get the smallest battery I could stand and just wait for it to die, then upgrade to a bigger battery at half the cost of the first one.

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