The Telsa Car

This link refers to a new mode of tranportation :

http://autos.msn.com/as/minishow/article.aspx?contentID=4024172&s=Pebble2006

It talks about how the New telsa car from Telsa Motors is the new generation of Automobiles. They say that this car can travel up to 130 mph as it is still a prototype. But they say its got 248 horsepower and alot of torque. The difference between this car and other typical sports cars is that this car has no fuel consumption. Which is totally electric powered. This means that transmission, gear box, engine, muffler, gas tank and all that weight is gone. Making this car fast and light. Telsa Motors is planing to make this car everyones car. The starting budget for this car is $100,000 USD. Already 100 of these cars are sold, and so the real market for these gasless cars begins.

This new car can go for 250 miles between charges, with about 6,800 AA size Lithium-Ion batters to power this beast.


This article relates both chapter 1 and 2 because I think that with the introduction of a new car like this, will strongly offset the economy in later years. Cars like this will sell when produced in quantity, and because when there is quantity, prices will decrease. This decrease in price will further increase demand for this type of cars.

The economics of gas heavilly relies on the consumers, people who drive to school everyday, drives to work everyday, and people who loves driving hummers and v12's. With these people, gas is constantly demanded and results in the expensive gas price we have today. But in later years, when Telsa cars are produced in large quantity.

People are going to be switching over to renewable energies like electricity. When half the population are driving the new Telsa cars, gas prices will drop because not many people will be consuming it. As well as car sales will decline, and results in the shutdown of many auto malls and factories. There will also be few old gas car dealers who are selling cars for as little as thounsands of dollars because theres simply too many out there that people don't want.

At this point, the workers at Alberta oil sands, oil rigs in the tropical areas, and bitumen extraction zones in Trinidad, and last but not least American companies in the middle east will all be laid off. Because of the fact that its no longer a profitable thing anymore, people would start saying "Gas is so last year".