Comments on: Electric Cars: Tesla Decides Bigger Batteries Are Awesome, Chevy Figures The Opposite /tech/2011/03/electric-cars-tesla-decides-bigger-batteries-are-awesome-chevy-figures-the-opposite/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous /tech/2011/03/electric-cars-tesla-decides-bigger-batteries-are-awesome-chevy-figures-the-opposite/#comment-2481 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:02:00 +0000 /?p=2306&post_type=tech#comment-2481 To be honest, I don’t care about the “green” factor of either, I just like the idea of having a silent, electric car that I don’t need to put foreign oil into.

]]> By: Glen Watson /tech/2011/03/electric-cars-tesla-decides-bigger-batteries-are-awesome-chevy-figures-the-opposite/#comment-2480 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:49:00 +0000 /?p=2306&post_type=tech#comment-2480 I like the Tesla, I think it a cool idea, except most of the trunk space is filled with batteries. You don’t buy these cars because they are “green”. In some cases more CO2 is pumped out in the creation of the specially crafted battery manufacturing and transportation than most cars will put out in a life time.

Tesla Motors was never founded to be a green company, although they do win quite a many green awards. They just wanted to make high performance electric sports cars.

The Volt on the other hand was suppose to be a “green” car, that is why there are less and worse quality batteries and such.

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