RE: The New American Gar Company

摘要

"I was weepy-eyed after reading your story on Tesla Motors," wrote @ericmwong on Twitter, responding to "Supercharged" by Joshua Davis (issue 18.10). "Makes me want to climb to the summit of the American dream. Truly inspirational." As the com-ment suggests, Tesla founder Elon Musk's success as a serial entrepreneur (PayPal, SpaceX) moved many readers. "Elon Musk is the new Richard Branson," raved (aimcconaghy on Twitter. Dan Haggarty of Toronto declared that Musk's career offers "a glimpse of American ingenuity at its best." (Even though Musk is South African.) But Haggarty had a critique, too: "The article offered only the most oblique reference to the current Achilles heel of electric cars-charge rate," he wrote. "An ideal electric car would need to charge at a level 100 times the amp service of a typical home. Electric cars may be in our future, but without a solution to the recharging elephant in the room, they'll only be a niche product for an urban elite."