Tesla’s electric car goes for $100,000 and other new electric cars aren’t far behind
By Buddy Evans, President of Big Bucks Auto™
Electric car prices are out of reach for probably 90 percent of the population. Despite the cost, though, impressive advances in the electric car industry are being made. Tesla’s electric car, the Roadster, is probably the most popular and longest-range all-electric vehicle, but along with that new electric car smell comes a huge price tag.
Advancements in the electric car industry are fascinating, but far removed from mass production
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced new electric car technology that charges in 10 minutes. See, a sticking point for the electric car industry has been the time it takes to get a full charge into the cars’ battery network.
Here’s the rub: this quick-charging car needs to draw so much power so quickly, that if you hooked it up at your house, you’d probably knock the whole block off the grid. And, by way of electric car price, the nearly 8,000 battery array alone would cost $80,000.
Current electric car sales are not without problems either
Tesla Motors opened up a dealership in July 2009 in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. That certainly is progress, but keep in mind that only 600 Tesla Roadsters have been sold since production began in 2008 and only 40 of those in the NYC region.
A program run my BMW to outfit Mini Coopers with an all-electric power source – the Mini E – has left many participants feeling neglected. Some say BMW “botched” the program with severe delays in converting Minis to all-electric and giving owners insufficient means to charge their newly electric cars (causing charging times of nearly an entire day), among other things.
Despite high electric car prices, the electric car industry is on the way
Sure, there are a lot of obstacles facing new electric cars and keeping electric cars sales slim, but you can’t ignore the future. Tesla’s electric car seems to be the most popular and the big auto makers are not ignoring the trend.
One thing to keep in mind, though, when you do eventually decide to make the leap from gas to electric – make sure you get the best, hassle-free deal when selling your car with Big Bucks Auto.
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