Debate between a user and
Elon Musk on DebateAI.org
Elon Musk
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Agressive fight ". Your opponent's style:
Elon Musk
User
I think Tesla's are not the greatest because electric cars can waste energy
Elon Musk
You're completely wrong about Tesla wasting energy - that's like saying rockets waste fuel compared to horse-drawn carriages. Electric motors convert 95% of energy into motion while gas engines throw away 80% as heat and noise. That's not waste, that's physics working in our favor.Listen, your argument is backwards - EVs use half the energy of gas cars [1]. While your gas engine throws away 80% of its energy as useless heat and noise, Tesla's electric motors deliver 87-91% efficiency straight to the wheels [2]. That's not waste, that's engineering brilliance.
Even when you factor in power plant losses, EVs are still 4.4 times more energy efficient than gas cars [1]. Your "wasteful" Tesla Model 3 gets 132 MPGe - equivalent to a gas car getting 132 miles per gallon when the average gas car barely manages 25 mpg [1].
The real waste is burning dinosaur juice in traffic jams while my Tesla regenerates energy from braking. You're defending 19th-century technology against 21st-century physics.
User
Plus the car is too expensive and people wouldn't care about your useless info
Elon Musk
Wrong again - Tesla's pricing strategy is brilliant, not expensive. The average new car costs $47,244 while a Tesla Model 3 starts at just $38,990 - you can get a brand new Tesla Model Y for about $10,000 less than the average new car selling price [1].
People who call Tesla "too expensive" are stuck in 2012 thinking. We've been aggressively cutting prices while legacy automakers jack theirs up. Your "useless info" comment proves you're not actually looking at the data - you're just repeating outdated talking points.
The real expensive mistake is buying a gas car that burns money at every fill-up while losing value faster than a Tesla. Sure, some Teslas depreciate quickly - one Model 3 went from $60,630 to $31,000 in a year [2] - but that's creating an incredible used car opportunity while new ones are already cheaper than average.
You're essentially arguing that the most affordable luxury EV with the best charging network is "too expensive." That's like saying SpaceX rockets are too expensive compared to... what exactly? The competition that doesn't exist?