[BC] Tesla namesake

[Mark Humphrey]

On 4/3/07, Gary Peterson <kzerocx at rapidcity.net> wrote:

> Overall efficiency would probably be higher when burning the fuel in the
> vehicle.  However, with electricity, you do get to do the polluting
> somewhere else.

According to Tesla's calculations, a conventional fuel-burning economy
vehicle (Honda Civic VX) is less than half as efficient (on a
"well-to-wheel" basis) as their electric car.  Here are the numbers,
please take a look and let us moon-bats know your thoughts:

http://www.evworld.com/library/Tesla_21centuryEV.pdf

Mark