{"id":1356,"date":"2018-05-24T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:05:53","slug":"glava-3-teslas-v-seredine-nigde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/en_ca\/glava-3-teslas-v-seredine-nigde\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 3: Tesla in the Middle of Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abThe Future Ahead of Me, The Past Behind Me\u00bb is Austrian journalist Toni Borroz's story on gasoline. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the voice in my head, okay, the voice from Google maps coming through my Bluetooth headphone (a necessity for the soft top, here loud), I bounce off the main route from southern Arizona through Phoenix and the <\/p>\n<p>Also, since my Miata is black and has no air conditioning (gotta save weight), the last thing I want is to be stuck in the middle of traffic, in the middle of Phoenix, in the middle of yet another day of desert roasting <\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" 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href=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/en_ca\/glava-3-teslas-v-seredine-nigde\/#%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%B6%D0%B5\" >The more they stay the same<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/en_ca\/glava-3-teslas-v-seredine-nigde\/#%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0\" >Odd couple.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/en_ca\/glava-3-teslas-v-seredine-nigde\/#%D0%96%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B8_%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F\" >Fat cats, fast cars and false assumptions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4-%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%82\"><\/span>Badzard buffet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So I'm shunted toward Maricopa and Gila Bend and through Sonoran Desert National Monument. <\/p>\n<p>\u00abWell, you don't have range anxiety,\" I say to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it's too much of an impression that the best British electric \u00absystems\u00bb don't allow me to middle anywhere that I see this person - an older white guy driving, not like an older white girl in the passenger seat, <\/p>\n<p>I realized he knew what he was doing. <\/p>\n<p>You see a lot of Teslas in large metro areas. <\/p>\n<p>Still . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/desert-highway-travel-concept-usa-PCRJHED-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00abWell, you don't seem to have range anxiety.\u00bb.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0\"><\/span>Tolling bells<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At least in my opinion, I reflect as I ache, another Tesla Model S is coming for me. <\/p>\n<p>But that was it: the future.<\/p>\n<p>That was my conclusion when the white Tesla disappeared into the distance of the vanishing point. <\/p>\n<p>They may not all be Teslas - and probably won't be, given Tesla's shakiness (both in terms of drop quality at the moment and with red ink), but eventually EVs will become a bigger and bigger part of what we see on the road. <\/p>\n<p>I can hear our funeral service, far in the distance, can't you?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D0%91%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B8_%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9\"><\/span>Fast and furious<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Performance cars have always been a small slice of the pie. <\/p>\n<p>And in some ways a variation on that is how I feel about EVs. <\/p>\n<p>And EVs are fun, even if most people don't realize it. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla Roadsters, for example, are frighteningly efficient on an AutoX track. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Roadster_Rear_34-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Tesla roadster. <\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B9\"><\/span>More changes to things. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So what's the problem? <\/p>\n<p>For me, there are two main factors: range and cost.<\/p>\n<p>Range is something that can be easily understood. <\/p>\n<p>To get the same range (give or take) out of a Tesla (the current range performance test) takes a futon-sized battery pack that weighs about half a ton. <\/p>\n<p>Cost, on the other hand, is more problematic. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the thing about electric cars is that you have to realize that you are paying almost everything up front. <\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%B6%D0%B5\"><\/span>The more they stay the same<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But where would I have been a hundred years ago? <\/p>\n<p>Soon there will be something that does 90 percent of what the Tesla Model S does, and it will be available to 75 percent of the public, and it will be. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogavto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Autoworld_Horse-Drawn-Carriages_Carl-Anthony-700x408.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Horse-drawn carriages are on display at 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