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Originally Posted by GGCO
Is it just me, or does this picture look photoshopped?
If you guys have $100,000 to spend on a Tesla, I can't wait to see your robot!  |
Haha! It's not ours, but one of our member's dad works for Tesla, so he has a corporate car. And no, it's not photo-shopped. And while our robot is rather low tech compared to the Tesla, we think it'll do fine.
He talked to us about why it costs over $100,000 (this one is about $150K), the engineering behind it, and the type of infrastructure needed for mass electric cars (for example battery exchanges instead of gas stations). From what MARS learned, electric car technology is advancing quickly and costs will start falling soon. Right now, it's like back when a flat screen plasma TV was $20,000.
Whether the electric infrastructure can handle 250 million electric cars in the future is up to us as FRC students!
By the way, there's more pictures of the Tesla on our
photo gallery.