Why Tesla’s Elon Musk doesn’t like E-REVs like the Chevy Volt

Posted: Apr 06, 2009

Filed under: Chevrolet, GM, Hybrids, Green News, Tesla Motors

The Tesla Roadster and the company’s upcoming Model S are both pure electric-vehicles. That’s because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk doesn’t like E-REVs like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt.

When asked by GM-Volt why Tesla hasn’t considered the range-extender concept of the Chevrolet Volt, Musk said:

We looked closely at a range extender architecture for Model S. It ends up costing about the same in vehicle unit cost, a lot more in R&D and a lot more in servicing. Also, although performance is ok when both battery and engine are active at the same time, it turns really bad when the battery runs out and an undersized engine is carrying all the dead weight of the pack. Essentially, a REV is neither fish nor fowl and ends up being worse (in our opinion) than either a gasoline or pure electric vehicle.

Of course, there is a more technical hatered for Musk towards REVs. You can read more over at GM-Volt.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: GM-Volt

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By making the statement that only 520 cars were booked in a set of weeks, Tesla is, basically, saying they are dead. With the current debt ratio, overhead and competitors they need to be booking 800 customers per day to even have a bare chance of surviving. The CEO of Tesla is detailed elsewhere online as doing over 40 things that are almost clinically insane, every investors has said they will never put money in Tesla again. The US DOE has already said that they have a failed financial model. They are gone. Bright and Fisker will crush them. Any 3Rd rate controller can run the numbers in a pro forma spreadsheet and see that they are unsurvivable and wait until the UAW gets done with them! My brother is in a Nissan UAW group and the bosses are already meeting about how to force Tesla to sign.

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Why Tesla’s Elon Musk doesn’t like E-REVs like the Chevy Volt

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