The ecology aspect of electric cars is a joke. Right now studies shows that the bateries are weak, not durable and need to be changed after few years. What we will do with them to keep it eco?

You can make better batteries and even better cars, but if you can’t sell them in great numbers, what’s the point?

just make it bit cheaper.

Europe and America join hands to beat the bloody Chinese Dragon who try to Swallow World Financial Arena !

I want Tesla to employ me as a researcher and become no.1 in the car industry worldwide.
I have the formula for a battery model that self generates endless energy without any need for recharging.

wow

Nobody is looking at where the electricity will come from to charge these cars, where the raw materials for batteries will come from, and the ecological costs for both of those. How much of the amazon or aftican forests will be destroyed strip-mining for cobalt and lithium? How many acres of forests will be cut down to make battery plants? Add to that that in northern climates it’s nice to have heat in your car in the winter, how does that happen in an electric car? And sometimes air conditioning in the summer.

Future technologies.

Hello Mr. Musk, I do live in India ; I am a car cum movie buff. Well, I am really wondering how come all of a sudden you reached number one position in terms of wealth among the crowd in the entire world. How did you became number one richest person in the world ? What’s d secret behind that? I heard there are many business tycoons out there in the planet — perhaps each one of ideologies or perception towards their businesses would be different.. Are you going to launch a “Tesla” manufacturing unit here in “Bengaluru” India ?… Read more »

Keep up the good work Mr. Musk.., How many times these super electric car can be re-charged in a row? You said that these car has made up of ultracapacitor/lithium-ion batteries – Does this car really has capability of being recharged hundreds of thousands of times?

India-has-a-great-potential.
It-Only-needs-good-governence.
We just need right people, at the deserving places.

I can imagine that one should want to make better batteries, but why in godsname, should one want to build faster cars????

So we are likely to be heading into a global recession I think it most likely a cheap alternative will win the way perhaps look towards India/China for cost reduction and add a bit of European reliability

I don’t understand why Nikola is mentioned. The company and its former CEO are under investigation by the Feds and the SEC. They lost the GM partnership and are probably going bankrupt within the next few months, as their business model sucks and they have no real in-house innovation.

So where is it? I dont see it. Oh it is still on the paper or in a labs. Lol. We are talking mass production here, not some niche production with few cars made like Rimac. This sounds like desperate attempt to improve shattered self-confidence of European auto industry. Lol. This is pathetic. Europe need to fall harder on the face to wake up from that stupid ICE lethargy. Wake up or Chinese EVs will eat up our market.
NEXT!

I don’t think human kind is ready to abandon fossil fuel yet, it’s just readily accessible reliable power source and wealth. There are much more resources being invested in discovering more fossil fuel reserves that clean energy sources. The scramble to occupy the land left behind by the receding Polar ice caps , is good example. Elon Musk is an excellent engineer but brilliant at marketing! Kinda like Steve Jobs, who convinced people they would die without iPads? EV at the moment are a dream sold to wealthy people inorder for them to feel better about playing a bigger role… Read more »

I am trying to figure out why people at every oppurtunate moment try to bash and downplay the contribution in EV domain. They should be thankful to Tesla for thier existence. Without the success of tesla none of the startup would have got the platform that it is getting now. Let’s just be thankful to elon musk and tesla for opening this opportunity for everyone with talent and inclination for renewable energy…

We have to thank Musk for running and starting this race. Keep on going!!

That’s all good and I hope that these innovations will improve everybody’s products by competition. Thing is, this sounds similar to some stories you hear: In World War 2, Germans, Japanese and Italians had some wonderful weapons, planes, rockets, tanks. They deployed a few hundred wonder weapons, difficult to maintain or operate, buffs assure you to this day that they beat U.S. and Soviet designs one on one. The U.S. and the Soviets put good, easy to maintain, and operate weapons out… by the tens of thousands. The Ford T wasn’t the fastest or most powerful car around, but it… Read more »

As Indians we look to progress of all mankind but be wary of China, they involve innovations from outside into their country under joint partnerships and once they manage to copy and re-engineer said innovations they blatantly steal the ideas, produce themselves and throw their old partners out of the market. This is not a country you want to do business with if you want future of mankind to remain free and for the will of our people to thrive. ?

The revolution in the battery industry with an initial focus on the automobile industry will revibrate in almost every sectors of our everyday life

IT IS Like health Care system.. EU make Long Terms better 🙂

What a ridiculous article, first thing, tesla is a scam and their truck works only when it rides from downhill.

It’s nice to get known about that much electronics. Actually there will be need to minimise road dependency and traffic. I saw video, some companies invented flying cars. Those need be electric. In beginning some of there government agencies might be allowed use of flying cars, to master an idea. To minimise possibility of accidents in air, cars need some connectivity and communication mechanism as that of aeroplanes, besides traffic control mechanism. There can be large sized flying car landing ports. Some of those cars don’t need runways. Those can lift up same as helicopter, also can be driven as… Read more »

Doubters neglect – and lose.
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Сомневающиеся пренебрегают – и проигрывают.

“Europe is making faster cars and better batteries than Tesla”. Rimac, don’t make consumer vehicles. Just tiny numbers of supercars for the uber-rich. Tesla battery, software, & drivetrains. Are 8-10 years ahead of the EU’s traditional automakers. Which have been dragging their heels about making long range EV’s for decades. So the ‘Sifted’ article is ‘Wrong’ on both counts. ‘Sifted’ needs to ‘up its game’. To avoid becoming a laughing stock…

Hmmm… Electric is out. Sorry, why doesn’t anyone talk about HHO hydrogen power. I’m pretty sure that a skilled team of engineers can put a conversion kit together in a few months’ time where we could extract hydrogen from water tank somewhere in the car. And there goes pollution… I don’t think, I’m sure that the Americans and the Arabs won’t let this happen.

I am an avid Musk fan, and follows up all his projects on a daily basis, out of sheer admiration. The pace at which his projects move forward is mind boggling. Giga Berlin is just 6 months into groundbreaking today, and factory buildings are 85% complete. Even Germans are in disbelief. He is too good to beat by the rivals. He quickly adapts to developing technologies. No new auto companies made their first million cars in the first decade of their existence. Tesla will have 2 million cars on the road by 2022, when Giga Shanghai, Berlinand Texas are in… Read more »

There is still a lot of hope for combustion engine. It lies with reliable hydrogen fuel cell , zero emission and sustainable fuel.
Lithium battery technology carries big toll on the environment , especially we will see it when electric surpasses fossil fueled vehicles on the road .

Why the hustle to make fast cars instead of versatiles? If engineers want to acomplis smtgh in this century or even in this decade is an acomlished dream of collective humans: flying cars, but not the kind that look like 1970, the one look like blade runner 2045. The merge of Auto industry with Flight industry is coming, the question is which automaker will be the pioneer!

This is all vaporware. Tesla is getting a beating in Europe by established carmakers entering the market. Most visible in Norway, since it’s the most advanced market. Next year is gonna be even worse.

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/01/september-in-norway-goes-off-the-charts-record-ev-market-share-of-82/

Making faster cars, what a waste of everyone’s time! Why are we still pouring so much resources making boy racers happy when there’s a planetary crisis going on?

A bit misleading. None of these are mass production autos at a price point mere mortals can afford. None come with OTA updates, None come with a service network or charging network, And, I don’t suppose I can go to their website, order my car, and expect delivery anytime soon. Might of, could’ve, would’ve, should’ve, but when WILL they? Any legacy automaker has a couple giant hurdles to overcome to compete. 1. Their dealership network (sales + service) that see EVs as a threat to the established order, not an opportunity. 2. Existing supplier agreements with suppliers likewise heavily invested… Read more »

Bottom line for me is electric cars are just too damaging to the environment and are just not up to the job.

They’re all just start ups though. Tesla will make about half a million model 3s this year. Biggest compeditor right now is the Audi e-tron I’d say that most certainly has stole lots of sales from model s and x. Sure the etron is slightly cheaper and some really good deals have been possible to grab this year but the fact still stands that the etron has sold in 13 k units in Europe while s and x haven’t even reached 5 k combined. (And sure the biggest canabalization of s and x sales probably comes from Teslas model 3… Read more »

Man lets be real this is nothing new Rimac is the king for EV but bad new is that people dont know for them coz Americans are Americans and only what they have is publicity rest of that is 90% of bullshits

I do like the guys on here body guarding Elon like his feelings might get hurt….

More garbage. If you want me to take your article seriously or even bother to read it then you need to learn that a FUD headline saying that EUROPE IS MAKING FASTER CARS AND BETTER BATTERIES is an instant alarm bell. TESLA and their partners are the world leaders in batteries and EVs. The German Auto industry is literally 15 years behind and that is a solid fact.

TSLA become dominate not because it has the best of everything. In fact, that’s not what is drive for… Costs is everything. TSLA intend is to sell affordable car with maximum functionally, not to be fastest or cheapest…

It would be rude of me not to point out that the Tesla Roadster, like the Rimac C_Two, is also not in production yet, and has an even flakier production start date. So neither is the fastest production road car.

The european car “industry” is a conglomeration of nationalistic ideas all going their separate ways under the impression that “you vill do zat” ala 1930’s/40’s. The world has moved on and technology rules for better or worse. Instead of knocking Tesla an amount of imitation might well be in order to succeed if their ego’s will stand for it.

You know this is an exciting time. Musk has said from the beginning its a worldwide effort to make the transition to renewables. His role is to inspire worldwide change. But just being real, everything you mentioned was future stuff. I could say I have a faster, better car that I cant mass produce –so what Every year we hear about the latest technology battery tech that will change everything. Oh yea, but they haven’t figured out how to mass-produce it. So really your article should have been about optimism and hope and not companies that ARE ACTUALLY better than… Read more »

Clickbait.

Tesla is overvalued. So it makes sense that Tesla intends to sell shares soon.

I am an American who has lived in the EU for the last five years. I have nothing but love for the EU and its values and its humanity. But I will tell you that the difference between Americans and Europeans is far greater than most people know. Americans are, on the whole, far more comfortable with risk and pushing boundaries, and are prone to have an almost foolhardy belief in their own capabilities, whether warranted or not. This combination of ambition and optimism results in innovation on a level that the EU has trouble matching. In my experience, europeans… Read more »

Great! Let’s bring these 10+ startups, have them design and make vehicles in the next 2-3 years to rival the vehicles of a company that are on the roads today. Sounds like a great vision! They have some great CGI renders and specs on the paper, but would be great to actually see one driving very soon. For instance, Porsche Taycan, a fantastic looking car with reportedly great engineering costs nearly twice as much, goes half the distance, lacks most of the tech and crucial charging infrastructure. This is coming from a phenomenal car company. So words don’t always translate… Read more »

Everything here is ‘about to be built’ or ‘ready next year’ , meanwhile I have a fantastic model S sitting in my driveway and I can drive right accross Europe with no charging issues. Most of the time an overnight charge in my normal 10 amp socket is fine. Tesla solved the main barriers to entry for the consumer some years ago. The mainstream ICE makers would still rather sell an EV as a second car and/or short trip city run about. They have meanwhile been disrupted by Tesla, as has the oil industry. Neither of those groups like it… Read more »

Elon Musk once said no e-vehicle maker came close to a Tesla car they made in 2012 and its now 2020, so what makes you think these EV companies can compete with Tesla who is far ahead in EV manufacturing and auto-self-driving technology? He said its easy to build a prototype but its a different ball game to mass produce it. On a final note when car consumers were asked if they would purchase an EV with all the hype but has no track record, most rather chose to stick with a Tesla brand vehicle.

This is click bait , where in this list is “faster and better” in production …its mostly European competitors trying to catch up or projects being planned.

Im an European man living in Europe and can tell you no european automaker denies Tesla car and batteries are head away they can do themselves. Please do not humbug just because most Americans are not informed of of what happens in Europe.