Elon Musk: we have exhausted the possibility of diesel and gasoline engines Bashny.Net

Elon Musk said the scandal surrounding the cheating car Volkswagen sensors that make measurements of emissions into the atmosphere, and Tesla spoke about the plans to increase the mileage on a single charge up to twelve hundred kilometers by 2020.





In September 2015 the automaker Volkswagen admitted that cheating on tests the amount of harmful emissions by using its own software. The actual operation of diesel car models Beetle, Jetta, Golf and Passat harmful emissions exceed established "United States Environmental Protection Agency" rates from ten to forty times. Perhaps the company will have to pay a fine of eighteen billion dollars. The CEO has resigned, but said that he knew nothing about the fraud. Later it became known , that resigned head of Audi and chief development engineer for engine Porsche.

At a meeting with journalists, Elon Musk was asked a question on the topic of fierce scandal Volkswagen: whether these events cause people to lose faith in green technologies? "I think just the opposite. What really shows Volkswagen - is the fact that we have reached the limit of capacity with diesel and gasoline. Time to move to a new generation of technologies », - ответил Elon Musk. We are talking about electric cars.

According to Elon Musk, batteries for electric will improve by five to ten percent annually. Technology will become more accessible and attractive to consumers. By 2016, Musk планирует increase mileage Model S on a single charge to nine hundred and sixty kilometers, and by 2020 - up to twelve hundred kilometers.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/263050/