Tesla FAQ

[WarpedOne]

If your big concern is carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide and acid rain, soot and particulate matter, and all the other stuff we traditionally regard as air pollutants, then I think coal-produced electricity is actually more polluting than gasoline. I don't know how much more, though. I haven't seen a comparison by the numbers.
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This is what it is and was meant by pollution some time ago when all this craze about CO2 has not started yet. Would you think coal was more polluting than gasoline even where modern cleansing plants are used?

Anyway, FAQ should be short and concise. May it would be good to only point out that coal powerplants are "single" point pollutants where it is much easier to control its exhaust then with houndreds of millions of "small pollution sources" - ICE cars.

[mherzfeld]

... if the electricity comes from 'rooftop' solar panels ...

Ground or pole mounted solar electric systems are also an option for residential, agricultural and commercial applications. For instance, the code appears to be updated with ground mounted or pole mounted arrays, as example in 2008 NEC 690.5, ...

In addition, as eliquently stated in the above forum responses, GHG and atmospheric extinction are complicated discussions for some of us. But it appears, solar electric systems with electric cars together are a good thing.

[doug]

This post should be made sticky so we have it at hand when someone somewhere starts to spread this FUD again.

Thank you!

Really it should be part of a FAQ. The idea was discussed here and we actually had one here. I "unstuck" it a couple weeks ago since it had gotten rather out of date. And the person who maintained it no longer actively contributes to the forum. Anyone willing to update and take it over, maybe as a wiki?

[WarpedOne]

I am tinkering with an idea to voluntere for new maintainer.
I'd put that FAQ into a special thread of this forum with special rules:
- one FAQ per post
- FAQ posts are edited as need be by maintainer and/or moderators
- all nonFAQ posts in that thread would be deleted after being resolved

First step would be to transfer that old FAQ and then update it using members input.

What say you?

[vfx]

This forum seems to be growing organically as opposed to any kind of five year plan or "Intelligent Design".

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Another way to go would be having someone suggest another "Evolved" forum to strive to.

I don't have much experience with blogging (big suprise) but LotusTalk seems comprehensive.

[ChargeIt!]

My vote is for a wiki.

[doug]

FYI: We have a FAQ here: The Unofficial Tesla Roadster FAQ

It's a wiki. WarpedOne, since you volunteered. Could you start updating it for us?

[WarpedOne]

I'll look into it tonight (in about 10 hours).

[WarpedOne]

I held my promise and gave it a little nurturing.

Comments please!

[dpeilow]

It's a good start, but there are still some artefacts of the old one (e.g. use of Whitestar instead of Model S).