I’ve been waiting for this announcement for some time; I love the idea of an all-electric vehicle, but I’m not quite ready to shell out 100 grand for the Roadster or $70K for the Model S (as much as I would love to have either). At a base price of about $35,000, the Model 3 line is a lot more affordable.
The media, of course, have been all over the announcement, and I’ve enjoyed reading what people are saying. What I haven’t seen as much buzz about, though (aside from a mention here or there) is how Musk started off his presentation: Before introducing the new model, he spent several minutes giving details about the current and future effects of global warming:
Sometimes, I really like that guy.
His concern is real, and well-placed. The points he makes are legit. Carbon dioxide levels are screaming upward, temperatures are screaming upward, and we’re facing a new and rapidly changing world.
And that’s really the important piece. It’s getting hotter faster than it has in a dozen millennia at least. There’s been more CO2 in the air in the past, temperatures have been hotter in the past; but those changes happened slowly, over tens or hundreds of thousands of years. We’re seeing those same changes now happening in centuries. Less.
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Will electric cars save the world? Not alone, they won’t. But moving to solar, wind, and nuclear power (as well as other carbon-neutral sources) to feed our energy-hungry machinery could very well be what we need to keep our planet from becoming an alien world.
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