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Well, there's always Tesla. All the more reason to consider EVs a moral good.
by simonsarris 9y ago
Well, there's always Tesla.
All the more reason to consider EVs a moral good.
- ATsch 9y agoWell, last I remember Telsa violates the GPL
- mohaine 9y agoSource?
- foldor 9y agoI would assume since they're violating the GPL that there is no source, and that's the issue.
- ATsch 9y agoWell, we don't have it sadly. Jokes aside, there is no "offical" source for my claim. But the fact that they use a linux based system yet have no place to download it is all the evidence you need really. You can find a number of people detailing their (unsucessful) GPL requests in forum posts etc. by searching for "tesla gpl" or "tesla gpl violation"
- CalRobert 9y agoReducing the marginal cost of driving in terms of cash (fuel) and time (self-driving) may have second and third order effects which are deeply problematic. I like EV's, but we're foolish to think that making driving effectively free won't have downsides.
- ghaff 9y agoEVs also don't make driving "effectively free." We don't really have a good handle on the long-term maintenance costs associated with EVs but even the electricity itself (at residential power rates) is about 1/3 to 1/2 of gasoline costs in the US. A substantial savings but not free.
- awqrre 9y agoDo you include manufacturing environmental costs of their batteries and the environmental costs of the energy they consume that is produced by someone else?