Good answer, Mark. I read on Green Car Reports daily examples of the lengths to which many are resorting to get in the way of Tesla progress. All based on "that's not the way we've always done it." Somehow, hobbiests, professional developers, and the general public at large have GOT to encourage innovation and trying new things. Henry Ford ran into it with his Model T production line ("It will never replace the horse.") And now, marine electric propulsion advocates are bound to run into the same thing again.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:23 AM, <mstafford@natca.net> wrote:
While "no one else makes it" is a reason for caution, it is not a nail in the coffin. This group particularly is experimenting, challenging the status quo, and mostly we fail and learn, but we advance the possibilities for tomorrow in the process.
Manufacturers are by-and-large spurred to innovate by competition. If people keep buying your old crap, why rock the boat with new crap? We only have plug-in hybrid cars today that get over 100 MPGe because the mid-1990's WhiteHouse was assured by the American car companies that they did not need Federal legislation about fleet MPG because they all had imminent production cars that got great mpg. Japanese automakers believed that lie and made the Honda Insight (EPA tested 70mpg) and Toyota Prius (initially in the 40's), catching American manufacturers with their pants down. Through advertisement, American manufacturers swayed most of the public to assume that higher gasoline consumption meant higher customer satisfaction. We still support that unique American hyperconsumption-consequences-be-damned might-makes-right behavior.Mark Stafford
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