Tesla owners can drive from Mexico to Canada (for free)

[Judi Lynn]

Tesla owners can drive from Mexico to Canada (for free)
By Kirsten Korosec | October 30, 2013, 11:22 AM PDT



A corridor of Tesla Supercharger DC fast-charging stations along Interstate 5 and U.S. Highway 101 is complete, allowing owners of the company’s luxury all-electric sedan to drive from San Diego, Calif. to Vancouver, Canada for free.

More than 99 percent of Californians and 87 percent of Oregon and Washington owners now live within 200 miles of a supercharger.

Tesla’s 120 kilowatt superchargers, which only work with the Tesla Model S, provide half a charge in about 20 minutes. The chargers work by delivering direct current power to the battery using special cables that bypass onboard charging equipment. And using them is free for all Tesla Model S owners.

To commemorate the completed West Coast Supercharger Corridor, two Model S sedans left San Diego for a 1,750-mile #DriveFree road trip to Vancouver.

More:
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/tesla-owners-can-drive-from-mexico-to-canada-for-free/33059

[NYC_SKP]

1. If I had money to invest, it would go to TESLA. nt

[Mother Muckraker]

2. Unclean at Any Speed

Unclean at Any Speed
Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed

Those "Supercharger" stations are proprietary. You can't charge your Leaf there.

If you deviate from the route, you might not make it to the next Supercharger station and will need to charge at a regular station.

Tesla is looking to expand its sales in China which will only add to the massive pollution from their coal fired electric plants.

So far, the only legitimately "green" alternatives are taking public transportation, bicycling, walking

[Nihil]

3. I agree - walking is best - it's the manufacturing pollution that is the biggest problem ...

... so shut down all vehicle manufacturing plants (*) tomorrow and poof! problem solved.



(*) = with the possible exception of that new Volkswagen one


There again, maybe real problems have non-binary solutions?