Tesla Roadster somewhere in Santa Monica, June 2010
It’s not the car in itself. It’s the silent revolution and what goes around it.
Miami Vice!
Like I said on Twitter, it’s a-ma-zing to have such a powerful acceleration while listening to music, not barely hearing it due to a fucking huge combustion engine making the car smelling gas and transforming it as a giant vibrator.
The electric car is like my fanless computer; unless you experience it, you can’t really understand how it changes your life and how as me, you couldn’t wait for it to be widespread because consequences are dramatic (just think about a freeway 100% filled with electric cars: no noise, no smell. Living around would be much less a problem).
The tools to do that from a car to a computer are the same: re-think the all thing, push the efficiency envelope (less maintenance, constant performance), not the performance envelope (more horsepower, more problems). Think Wii. And look at its sales.
Just a nice, snappy, sweet and zen experience. The same applies to biking! Yesterday I rode 20 kms, not the fastest way to go somewhere but it matched car and bus timing except that I workout, it’s silent and that there’s no wait (what traffic, what bus schedule?).
What I try to say is that this design trend toward efficiency, user comfort and overall easiness while truly giving up on parameters (you can’t go far on a bike, electric car; my fanless computer can’t play the heaviest games; your smartphone needs to be charge everyday etc), is on its way everywhere I look.
And I freaking lo-vit.