A self-professed reformed BMW enthusiast says backlash against Tesla comes car owners "stuck in the past" who consider grease under their fingernails as a "manliness" status symbol among "nostalgic car weenies." Basically, military-grade trolling.
Mike Barnard, a writer at Slate.com, says that the time is coming for internal combustion engine fans to give up the ghost and get with Tesla because:
People who don't like hybrid race cars and production supercars are saying that they don't like better all-around performance—they just really only love things with cylinders and pistons, make of that what you will.
His point is mostly well made — despite resorting to pointless innuendos and a handful of quasi-Neanderthal references.
Barnard points out that technological advancements in electric cars have, in many ways, surpassed similar advancements in ICE cars. An electric motor, unencumbered with gears in a conventional transmission, is much quicker off the line; electric motors don't lose nearly 75 percent of their energy to heat; and, Tesla's cars don't waste energy making noise.
And Barnard doesn't have much patience for wasteful people any more:
In the future, there isn't room for people who think that burning million-year-old dead plants and blowing a ton of pollution and carbon into the atmosphere in order to go slower is a good thing. There's just room to put them out to pasture with old YouTube videos and maybe analog amplifiers to make the sound fuzzy and distorted.
Barnard doesn't address the significant performance gap between Tesla's electric cars and less expensive electric models from other automakers, nor does he address issues such as living and driving outside in rural areas nor price.
But I'm guessing there are a few more holes in his argument too that the B&B can point out.
H/T to David for pointing this out
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