The $500 million savings they got by building biodiesel BART extension will be all spent within 8 years as refueling by biodiesel is more than twice as expensive as running the trains on electricity. This means that if you look 15 years down into the future (especially looking into forecasts of electricity vs biodiesel costs), that BART extension will be twice as expensive including all that biodiesel fuel and all the users will need to endure the pain and time wasted having to switch BART @adam
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Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:05:04 EDT Charbax -
Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:06:38 EDT Charbax @adam instead of just having compatible extended BART. This just shows how the USA always never thinks on the long term. Same thing about pulling out of the Paris agreement. The USA does not like to invest in the future. Public transportation in the USA is a joke compared to Europe and China.
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Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:10:29 EDT Charbax @adam the Tesla EV model would just be fully perfect if only they would implement it as Better Place once tried, Electric Vehicles need to run on standard sized batteries regulated by the Government and you must be able to swap your EV battery "for free" at EV battery swap stations which could be located pretty much everywhere. No need to plug and recharge if you are going on a long road trip. They should have battery swap stations along every highway. Elon Musk is too scared to do it this way.
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Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:13:30 EDT Charbax @adam the reason Elon Musk can't agree to sell Tesla cars without the battery and offer all batteries and swapping as a separate service is because Elon Musk has too many Billions of dollars invested in building a giant Gigafactory ERV battery factory, he needs to sell the batteries to every Tesla user, as a big part of the cost of a Tesla, over $15K per battery. Instead a $35K Tesla should be sold at $20K without the battery and you'd pay a fee around $100/month for battery+charging+swapping.
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Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:16:46 EDT Charbax @adam when you swap, on your in-vehicle display or on your smartphone you click if you agree to use an older battery with less range you can get a discount on your monthly fee to maybe $80/month, and anytime when there are new batteries in the future coming with more range, if you want a newer battery with 30-40% more range, just upgrade your monthly fee to about $120/month maybe. Governments/industry should standardize EV battery sizes/weights/swapping bolts and systems, easy.
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Charbax (charbax@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-May-2018 22:25:10 EDT Charbax @adam the BART issue is probably like this, all local politicians only have 4 year terms and don't want to be seen as the ones that had to increase local taxes to fund a more future proof BART extension train track. The fact that building + running costs will be double overall after 15 years of running the train does not matter to them. Also the costs probably in the hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity by all the users having to switch trains is also not factored.
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