Tesla começa a vender carros em Portugal! Conheça os preços

LT says:

Isso é optimo para Portugal… entregue a uma pessoa que esteve responsável pela criação da rede de Supercharger em Espanha e Portugal… é o que Portugal representa para ele…

qwertyuiopus says:

Volta e meia vejo aqui na N1 (Centro) um ou outro Model S, e de matrícula portuguesa. É bonito e o perfil vira cabeças por onde passa.

Querem um EV barato? Dedicam-se a explorar o mercado dos importados, que não faltam alternativas. Conheço quem importou dois Leafs (um para ele e outro para a esposa) e ambos estão satisfeitos.

Quanto aos Tesla, os preços são adequados face ao que ambos os modelos oferecem.
Só um iluminado é que espera por preços “Dacia” nestes carros.

E já agora, esqueçam isso do produto X ser mais ecológico que o produto Y.
O próprio consumismo encarrega-se de fazer a sua própria parte no que toca a destruição de recursos, independentemente de emitir hidrocarbonetos ou perfume de rosas. Para quem tiver curiosidade: http://storyofstuff.org/

PS: Também sou suspeito 😉

Miguel says:

Vejam o que o Elon Musk escreveu a propósito do preço dos Tesla iniciais. Este gajo tm visão, não tem como objectivo apenas ganhar guito, já é milionário. Leiam

Master Plan, Part Deux

Elon Musk July 20, 2016
The first master plan that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn’t all that complicated and basically consisted of:

Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive
Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price
Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car
And…
Provide solar power. No kidding, this has literally been on our website for 10 years.
The reason we had to start off with step 1 was that it was all I could afford to do with what I made from PayPal. I thought our chances of success were so low that I didn’t want to risk anyone’s funds in the beginning but my own. The list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven’t gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared.

Also, a low volume car means a much smaller, simpler factory, albeit with most things done by hand. Without economies of scale, anything we built would be expensive, whether it was an economy sedan or a sports car. While at least some people would be prepared to pay a high price for a sports car, no one was going to pay $100k for an electric Honda Civic, no matter how cool it looked.

Part of the reason I wrote the first master plan was to defend against the inevitable attacks Tesla would face accusing us of just caring about making cars for rich people, implying that we felt there was a shortage of sports car companies or some other bizarre rationale. Unfortunately, the blog didn’t stop countless attack articles on exactly these grounds, so it pretty much completely failed that objective.

However, the main reason was to explain how our actions fit into a larger picture, so that they would seem less random. The point of all this was, and remains, accelerating the advent of sustainable energy, so that we can imagine far into the future and life is still good. That’s what “sustainable” means. It’s not some silly, hippy thing — it matters for everyone.

By definition, we must at some point achieve a sustainable energy economy or we will run out of fossil fuels to burn and civilization will collapse. Given that we must get off fossil fuels anyway and that virtually all scientists agree that dramatically increasing atmospheric and oceanic carbon levels is insane, the faster we achieve sustainability, the better.

Rafael says:

E o tesla roadster embora ainda não esteja a venda já a um protótipo que foi mostrado no dia da sua apresentação que fez dos 0-100 em 1.9 segundos para não falar na autonomia de mais de 1000 km