Tesla's plan to electrify Europe

[NickB79]

http://news.yahoo.com/teslas-plan-electrify-europe-122639732.html

Tesla has revealed that its first European supercharging stations are already up and running and that a pan-European network will be completed by the end of 2014.

To mark its arrival on European shores, Tesla installed one of its supercharging stations at the venue for this year's Frankfurt Motor Show and during its press conference revealed that similar stations are already in place across Norway's most commonly used roads and highways, despite the fact that the first Norwegian Tesla Model S customer only took delivery of the car in August.

But that's just the start. The company claims that by the end of next year, 100 percent of the population of Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg will also live within 320 km of a Supercharger station, (well within the car's driving range) where they will be able to recharge their Tesla free-of charge.

[jollyreaper2112]

1. aaah...

where they will be able to recharge their Tesla free-of charge.

Won't that defeat the purpose?

[madrchsod]

2. good one.......

[Rain Mcloud]

3. Rimshot!

I wish i had the money to buy the expensive beast so that i could drive for free too.
A top of the line "S" costs five times what i paid for my house.
I guess i shall have to wait on the future Model "T" from Tesla to fall in resale enough that my inner skinflint will shell out the money for a used one.
My prediction:It will be well worth the wait.

[joshcryer]

5. What's going to happen is all electrics will be free to charge.

If you agree to let your electric vehicle be used as battery backup for the grid. Vehicle to grid. Then renewables have a good way to maintain baseload and customers have a vehicle that pays for itself contrasted with the old way of doing things.

[joshcryer]

4. It's an incentive.

For both buyers (meager though it may be, any buyer can afford to charge one), and for the providers, because the providers will want to install renewable / solar energy to bring the cost down.

[joshcryer]

6. Interestingly Russia is providing a lot of baseload to Europe.

So it's going to be interesting how this plays out in the long run.

The EU needs to ramp up its renewable energy prospects.

[lonestarnot]

7. So have to drive 198 miles to the station?