Diesel engine-charged Tesla Model S covers 3500 miles with 76 gallons of fuel

[Faredodger 390]

Why bother?

[Omar]

I drive a Japanese 800cc diesel car, I drove 3500 miles in $350 beat that Tesla !

[NikoB]

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City hamsters do not understand freedom of movement, like other rights. They are all tied to the stupid scheme of house in the suburbs->work in the city->house in the suburbs. All year, except holidays. And so the whole life until retirement, if they survive...

This just shows how poor electric cars are as a real means of independent transportation.

[A]

And to wait for better more powerful and cheap batteries to be invented.

And then we can all swich to full electric transportation.

Cost is a matter of mass production, without mass production you will never get cheap.

[Granturismo5280]

I drove a e250 bluetec with awd that could average 46 to 47 mpg on road trips, 800 to 850 per tank. Way more than enough power. No reason we could not be driving cars getting 60mph. A small aero diesel hybrid maybe 80.

[George]

I drove a e250 bluetec with awd that could average 46 to 47 mpg on road trips, 800 to 850 per tank. Way more than enough power. No reason we could not be driving cars getting 60mph. A small aero diesel hybrid maybe 80.

Agreed.

I used to own a DieselGate 'Golf' (USA) that would regularly get ~40MPG in the city and often the same or even better on the highway/road trips with the 1.8L TDI & 6speed trans.

IMHO: it had plenty of 'power'. :)

Also IMHO: the idea of a small diesel/hybred where the diesel provided the charging+range while the electric provided the intown & low speed operation ought to be an attractive and 'killer' combo.

[Rob an]

I'll just stick with my Camry Hybrid and get the same or better mileage using regular gasoline with an emissions control system that results in much cleaner operation.

[Rob S]

I thought initially it was a typo and should have said 76 litres, which would have been impressive. However, 76 gallons would would take my Renault Trafic approx 3800 miles.
Those figures are not good for a electric vehicle with a donkey engine.  What was overall Weight of vehicle?

[R D]

Hey Tech World, 

     I'm appalled at the lack of "pure" much less "combined" technology!
     My 1980 VW Rabbit got 58mpg on #1 jet fuel- Road and Track magazine turboed one and hit 78mpg in 1984.
     Now, my '17 Fussion 4 banger
(DOHC/EFI/Turbo) gets a rock solid 24.3 while whipping nearly every car on the road!
     Come on Kids, show Grampa some
SPUNK!

              Master Diesel tech
              Retired x3

[Randy]

It just shows the ignorance of human nature. Get rid of the xtra ton of dead weight from the battery pack, then you're able to install a smaller diesel engine with a transmission and drive the same amount of miles but on even much less diesel. To you all that are able to read and understand, there is nothing that compares to the Reliability and Affordability of the Dense Energy that comes from Gasoline and Diesel fuels that will get you there, back, and beyond. That is why it is used as the main source of energy. Do not let your corrupt government dictate to you what you should drive or anything else for that matter if you want to still remain a free society.

[Mau]

2012 dieselgate Jetta sportwagen would get 50 mpg and 40 city

[Dave Henry]

This is awesome experience, every Tesla should have one than it will make sense to buy one mtsmobiletruckrepair.com

[Dave Henry]

Diesel just more efficient on anything you put in even semi trucks www.mtsmobiletruckrepair.com

[Backcountry164]

Did they explain what the point was?? Because there doesn't seem to be one...

[D8Mach]

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City hamsters ... are all tied to the stupid scheme of house in the suburbs->work in the city->house in the suburbs.

They did you a favor by removing your post, because "city hamsters" don't live in suburbia. Conflating the two is an embarrassment they tried sparing you.