The Future Of Oil: Electric Cars Have Reached The Point Of No Return With Tesla Gigafactory.
Elon Musk is not dancing on the Volkswagen grave, mass media will do it of him now. He is already dealing with Diesel and Gas powered cars as a class: making more and more electric cars. Last week Tesla has opened European plant, announced talks about opening its Superchargers Network to other auto-makers and … Tesla Model S will go 600 miles on a charge in the future. Now Elon Musk talks about Lithium Battery Gigafactories in Europe. Let's bring one to Ireland!
DieselGate: The Answer - Tesla Opens First European Plant On Road To 500,000 Electric Car Target.
Elon Musk brings the answer to all The Economist questions about the future and how "to start the era of electric car". Future is already here, just not everybody has noticed. Welcome to the Tesla first European plant!
"… Apple will go to The Trillion Dollars Market Cap and Tesla will build more Gigafactories. Dear Elon, please consider Ireland for the next Gigafactory, Ganfeng Lithium and International Lithium will be happy to supply you with our Lithium from Avalonia J/V and you can take Europe by the storm. Another interesting twist will come with Foxconn and its mystery $15k electric car, where they are investing now more than $800 million in China into the production facility. Everything is changing very fast in our electric space this year. Foxconn is the largest producer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, can we have the same cooperation with Apple Electric iCar? Lithium is the magic metal at the very heart of this rEVolution and Lithium supply is already under strain even before Tesla Gigafactory and other Megafactories are coming on-line."
Join the Disruption or be Disrupted. Dump The Pump - It Is Time To Go Electric.
TechInsider:
Elon Musk on Volkswagen scandal: 'We've reached the limit of what's possible' with fueled cars
Jennifer Welsh
"Volkswagen was recently caught using software to cheat on emissions tests in many of its diesel cars, according to the US EPA.
The "defeat device" scandal likely means millions of cars have been belching 10 to 40 times the federal limit of nitrogen oxides emissions for years — and has led some to ponder the future of clean-operating vehicles.
One of the most highly awaited reactions is from Elon Musk, the CEO of electric car company Tesla.
In the Belgian news clip below he's asked how this might impact the public's view of green car technology.
The reporter asks:
What do you think of the Volkswagen scandal? Do you think people might lose their faith in green technology because of that?
Musk responds:
I think it's more the opposite, because what what the Volkswagen is really showing is we've reached the limit of what's possible with diesel and gasoline. So the time, I think, has come to move to a new generation of technology.
One can assume that by "a new generation of technology" he means electric cars, like the ones he's building at Tesla Motors.
This kind of reaction from Musk isn't actually surprising. He's spoken out a lot about how we need to push ourselves into the sustainability era sooner rather than later.
Continuing to burn fossil fuels to power our civilization, he says, is tantamount to running "the dumbest experiment in history." That's because, no matter what, we'll have to develop ways to power ourselves without fossil fuels, since we'll run out of them in about 100 years.
And while we are burning through them, we are radically altering the Earth's climate with long-term and potentially devastating impacts.
So in Musk's view, if the Volkswagen scandal helps the public realize that we are hitting a very strict limit to how "green" our cars can be as long as they are still burning fossil fuels, that's probably a good thing in the long run — not just for Tesla, but for humanity.
Scientists who are speculating about Volkswagen's next move seem to agree. Venkat Viswanathan, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon, told Quartz that one potential way for VW to survive would be to pivot into making electric cars."
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