I fail to the correlation, making a silly name takes 3 seconds, writing a driver does not.

While I don't doubt that it's do-able, and that they may even be on the moon when they say they will, it seems a little bit early to me. I may be wrong about this as I only read space articles once in a while, but my impression is that they won't be pulling a profit for quite a while. Who's going to provide the volume of purchases necessary to turn a profit on a moon base?

Well seeing as a portion of those countries are G20 nations, and a G7 country as well.... Saying they have little worldly influence is like saying Google is a small company without much influence just because you can't see it behind ExxonMobile

Last I checked 230 + 230 = 460. So if the shortest route is nearly 400 miles wouldn't the 230 mile battery pack work fine? I mean yeah you have to account for getting out of an into the city, but 60 extra miles seems like enough to me. So the owners of the 160 mile battery wouldn't be able to make it, which given the market for Tesla cars, I'm sure is a minority. Additionally this is supposed to be the first of many, so they'll just have to wait a bit longer. I may be wrong, but the submitter of the article seems to want to label this hope instilling progress as either not good enough or proof of electric cars not working, I'm not really sure.

Okay, while this was kinda cool, like most people have been mentioning, nothing new really... To be honest when I read the title I thought it was some sort of advancement of this caliber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY