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If they burn 10x the fossil fuels of airliners, there is no way they'll get approval for use in most of the world.
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@asharak84 No, it uses ten times as much fuel and cannot (as claimed) carry 10x as many passengers. Early flights will only carry 100 people. 1000 passengers is wildly optimistic, it just won't happen even if only because there isn't that level of demand
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@asharak84 The demand isn't there for 1000 people per flight. There aren't currently 5 aircraft on the same route at the same time all full. I don't think they'd get the CAA approvals for these rockets without the systems redundancies. Systems redundancy is a big thing in approvals for new aircraft, there cannot be a single point failure which is fatal. It's all a nice idea but ultimately doomed. Musk doesn't like to work within regulations for anything and that's not going to work well with aviation.
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@user-RCST the demand wouldn't be there for electric cars if it wasn't for the large government grants and tax breaks for them in most countries. In the UK they are still only a tiny proportion of total car sales.
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@user-RCST there's a very large one in the UK and all of Europe. A £5000 grant plus zero company car tax or road tax yet electric cars make only 6% of new car sales and that's all electric cars, not just Tesla, they're one of the less popular EV cars here because of high cost and low quality and poor reliability.
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@user-RCST just about every major manufacturer is making EV cars in big numbers now and heavily invested in them. Demand is increasing as they get cheaper and better and there's more choices from Japanese and European manufacturers. I won't buy one for a long time because I enjoy driving and prefer the character of a really good petrol engine to a soulless but fast electric motor.
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@user-RCST Ill take my screaming supercharger and wailing V8 over any battery powered car. Jaguar, Volvo and BMW are all winning awards for their electric cars over Tesla and they are much more common over here. Nissan have by far the most common electric car in Europe.
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@user-RCST Yes I've heard electric cars on full acceleration. It's subjective but to me a V8, V12, V6 or inline 5 sounds much better. Tesla don't sell well here because of their reputation for poor customer service, lack of parts availability and poor interior quality. Basically the same reasons US cars have never done well in Europe. Tesla have come bottom in reliability surveys, below even Jaguar and Alfa Romeo. The Nissan Leaf may be dull but at least it'll keep working. I'll probably buy an electric car in a couple years as my second car but it'll probably be either Jaguar or BMW.
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@user-RCST Only if they vastly improve quality and service. There's no waiting lists for cars so it's not supply of vehicles stopping people buying them. You can currently have any model of Tesla within a week.
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A strategy which has been well tested by cartels
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