Branson To Challenge Tesla

[DAVID BROWER]

NICOLA TESLA DID BUILD AN ELECTRIC CAR .

THIS WAS WHILE HE WAS WORKING WITH WESTINGHOUSE TO HARNESS NIAGARA FALLS FOR HYDROELECTRIC POWER .
HE WENT TO PIERCE ARROW , THE LOCAL CAR COMPANY IN BUFFALO AND ORDERED A SEDAN WITH NO DRIVETRAIN .

HE THEN OUTFITTED THE CAR WITH AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND BATTERY POWER .
HE COULD PARK HIS TESLA CAR IN A SPECIAL GARAGE WHERE IT WOULD RECHARGE ITSELF JUST SITTING THERE !

WITH NO PLUGS OR WIRES , IT WOULD BE READY FOR THE NEXT DAY's DRIVE IN THE MORNING .
FROM WHAT THEY SAY , THE RANGE AND SPEED OF THE CAR WAS QUITE GOOD .

AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED , UNLESS ELON MUSK CAN OFFER AN ELECTRIC CAR WITH WIRELESS RECHARGE CAPABILITIES ,
HE IS ONLY STEALING TESLA's NAME & SHOULD BE CALLING HIS CARS MUSKMOBILES .

 

[Rickb]

Smart, wealthy and caring, he has,or soon will, place all is patents in the public domain.

Caring because he has made all of his patents available? It's more good business strategy that encourages other successful EV startups so he can sell them batteries and charge a fee for non-Tesla owners to use his quick charge network.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

Caring because he has made all of his patents available? It's more good business strategy that encourages other successful EV startups so he can sell them batteries and charge a fee for non-Tesla owners to use his quick charge network.

whatever, don't remember another automaker opening up patented technology

 

[RUCRAYZE]

NICOLA TESLA DID BUILD AN ELECTRIC CAR .

THIS WAS WHILE HE WAS WORKING WITH WESTINGHOUSE TO HARNESS NIAGARA FALLS FOR HYDROELECTRIC POWER .
HE WENT TO PIERCE ARROW , THE LOCAL CAR COMPANY IN BUFFALO AND ORDERED A SEDAN WITH NO DRIVETRAIN .

HE THEN OUTFITTED THE CAR WITH AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND BATTERY POWER .
HE COULD PARK HIS TESLA CAR IN A SPECIAL GARAGE WHERE IT WOULD RECHARGE ITSELF JUST SITTING THERE !

WITH NO PLUGS OR WIRES , IT WOULD BE READY FOR THE NEXT DAY's DRIVE IN THE MORNING .
FROM WHAT THEY SAY , THE RANGE AND SPEED OF THE CAR WAS QUITE GOOD .

AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED , UNLESS ELON MUSK CAN OFFER AN ELECTRIC CAR WITH WIRELESS RECHARGE CAPABILITIES ,
HE IS ONLY STEALING TESLA's NAME & SHOULD BE CALLING HIS CARS MUSKMOBILES .

Hi-
Welcome from THE Sunshine State.
We're a friendly bunch- no need to yell

 

[RUCRAYZE]

BTW0 your info on Nicola didn't seem just right-
The Nikola Tesla electric car hoax is an anecdote that refers to a supposed Nikola Tesla invention described by a Peter Savo (who claimed to be a nephew of Tesla), to one Derek Ahers with the date September 16, 1967. Savo said that Tesla took him to Buffalo, New York, in 1931 and showed him a modified Pierce-Arrow automobile.

Tesla, according to the story, had the stock gasoline engine removed and replaced with a brushless AC electric motor. The motor was said to have been run by a "cosmic energy power receiver" consisting of a box measuring about 25 inches long by 10 inches wide by 6 inches high, containing 12 radio vacuum tubes and connected to a 6-foot-long (1.8 m) antenna. The car was said to have been driven for about 50 miles at speeds of up to 90 mph during an eight-day period.[1][2]

This story has received some debate because the car's propulsion system is said to have been invented by Tesla. No physical evidence has ever been produced confirming that the car actually existed. Because Tesla did not have a nephew by the name of Peter Savo, the Tesla electric car story is considered by Tesla's grandnephew William Terbo to be a fabrication.[3]

 

[BigWarpGuy]

Perhaps Branson could buy Myers Motors or have them make a car for him? or a similar car company trying to make an electric vehicle?

 

[Hotscoots]

Branson should get out his considerably large checkbook and write a 2 and a bunch of zeros and hand it to Paul Elio .

 

[satx]

Branson should get out his considerably large checkbook and write a 2 and a bunch of zeros and hand it to Paul Elio .

yep, the amount of money EM needs is pocket change for 1000s of investors, when EM needs only one, has needed only one for years. Not encouraging.

 

[Ekh]

yep, the amount of money EM needs is pocket change for 1000s of investors, when EM needs only one, has needed only one for years. Not encouraging.

It's about ego and control needs, which both Paul and Branson have in spades.