Your Tesla Limousine in Aspen
So why did I add this “un-truck” beauty to Z3RO G limo? If you can’t carry a 4×8 sheet of plywood is it a truck? I love the Simon Giertz Truckla – that’s a truck.
The majority of trips on the Western Slope of Colorado are long distance between airports. The majority of passengers have a lot of luggage. The weapon of choice for livery vehicles on the Western Slope is a Suburban. The Cybertruck can go toe to toe – or wheel to wheel with the Suburban.
“How long does it take to charge?” is a common question from my passengers. The answer is complicated including words like “amperage” and “transformer”. The answer may be much simpler pretty soon.
No model 3 in the fleet (yet) but the developments for the model 3 motor are engineering elegance
Yes, Z3RO-G Limo is still in business.
Travel Safe.
Text 24 hours in advance for fastest response.
Masks required.
*The plexiglass partition was manufactured to order by Bednark Studios and is made of the same clear plexi used for face shields in hospitals.
Door handles, seat belt latches, and window controls are disinfected after every trip. P-100 filter is in bioweapon defense mode during each trip to help insure fresh clean air circulating in and out of the cabin.
Masks required. You are not the only person to ride in the back seat. There is no guarantee that the person who rode in that seat prior to you was COVID free. This is for your protection. Masks required.
Texting at least 24 hours in advance insures that the car will be fully charged and disinfected for your ride. Texting also gives a written record of your reservation, pickup and drop off locations and time. Please include flight numbers in your request. Please include your email address in your request. Please include your name or company name in your request.
There is a 3 passenger limit because there are only 3 seat belts in the back seat. If you have bagged skis that takes away one seat.
Invoices through Square. This gives a written record of your reservation. It is only “Confirmed” when you have been texted the word “Confirmed”. Confirmations are not given over the phone.
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Thank you for your kind attention,
Ziska Childs
Owner Z3RO-G Limo.
Here are a few pictures from our Climate Strike in Aspen September 20, 2019.
It was a sharp contrast to the Grand Junction Club 20 meeting the next day which was a strong “all of the above” for energy message from the guest speakers who gave lip service to renewables (that *is* progress) but continued to push coal and natural gas while dismissing “the green new deal” as sloganizing without substance (“they’ll get rid of airplanes!”). The relocation of the BLM to Grand Junction was met with wild applause- even though there were those who wondered if leaving DC would weaken the department’s bargaining power and who were aware that although the offices have been leased as of Nov 1 (tucked in nose to tail in the same building with fossil fuel companies) congressional funds have not been allocated for the move. There was no mention of the Climate Strike but only stern looks and tight set jaws recounting the number of jobs lost when fossil fuels move out of the region. The silent cloud of blame was placed on renewables not on automation or market forces. Sell the Natural Gas to Japan to weaken China was the message (something we heard from the previous administration selling the Natural Gas to Europe to weaken Russian). The popular reaction in this audience was to double down on coal and to scramble for other mining markets in rare earths and uranium. I was told I could power my Tesla with vanadium… “at any gas station” just like a car. Well, no, but it might improve all those batteries in the bottom of the car…
The struggle is real and the front lines are here. There will be no progress without economic justice which includes the rural United States .
This is just my opinion.
As I tell everyone who wants to let me know how bad my Tesla is… “Don’t test drive a Tesla… just don’t.”
Total Carbon saved by Tesla vehicles. and counting
But your car is powered by electricity and that’s burning coal
Well, no mine is powered by solar panels on my garage or renewable energy chargers en route as are many electric vehicles; but for those EVs which are on non-renewable electric power the amount of electricity used by an EV using coal powered turbines compared to the same number of miles in an ICE is 68% fewer emissions. .
But your car uses rare earth materials mined by child labor
This is a true concern. Nickel, Cobalt , Manganese and Lithium are the major components and mining them does come at a cost- no where near the cost of fossil fuels- but still a tremendous cost both environmental and ethical. Tesla keeps pushing for more environmental and ethical choices for their batteries.
But the government subsidizes your EV purchase.
Pot, kettle, black… look at the fossil fuel subsidies…
But Tesla’s catch fire.
Look at the statistics compared to other cars.
But I don’t trust Tesla I’m waiting for other brands they’ll be better.
Living in a rural area I’m all about range. I looked at the Audi e-tron this summer… same 90 KW battery .. 91 miles *less* range… no bio-hazard filter… can’t raise or lower the suspension … less trunk space… smaller… same money… do your homework and take a long look at certified pre owned Teslas
But we’ll lose all that gas tax.
Look at the medical and agricultural costs for air pollution, ground water pollution and environmental clean up. Everyone who uses a road and who benefits from the transport of goods should help pay for the road but that is no reason to continue using fossil fuels when we have a safer cleaner alternative.
(Maybe we could recoup some of those costs cutting fossil fuel subsidies…. just an opinion)
But there aren’t enough charging stations.
Take a good look at the world wide Tesla supercharger map.
But Auto Pilot is scary
Tesla is the safest car on the road. Drivers without autopilot- now those are scary. I had one car spin out in front of me in Glenwood Canyon and block both lanes. Collision control stopped the car so smoothly my passenger in the back seat did not wake up. As long as the painted lines are visible on the road autopilot will work. More stats…
But the batteries don’t last.
Worry about something else. With 75,000 on my 2016 Model S I have a 2% battery loss. Please compare that to compression loss and gas mileage reduction in an ICE vehicle.
But aren’t you afraid you’ll run out of electricity? What do you do then?
I can get you from Aspen to Denver without stopping as long as I have a full charge when I pick you up- winter or summer. I normally have between 25%-45% left in the battery when I reach DIA depending on road conditions and temperature. There is a supercharger next to every major airport in Colorado except Eagle Vail (update! a Chargepoint DC charger has been installed at Eagle next to the airport which gives 45 miles of charge in an hour for $1.75). The Tesla computer will keep close track of my battery level and the charge I need to make my destination… if it looks like I’m low… I slow down. If it looks like I’m really low and Vail Pass is closed Eisenhower isn’t moving and there are a bazillion skiers either going to or from Denver I have the Glenwood Springs supercharger and the Silverthorne supercharger as “back up”. If I70 is closed (it happens) try rerouting to Grand Junction Regional Airport or how about a lovely train ride on the California Zephyr and a light rail ride right to DIA from Denver’s Union Station?
Look for charging stations close to you.
But Tesla is too expensive.
First deduct what you pay for gas and oil changes.
A Tesla has a total of 80 parts in the drive train. There is, literally, less “stuff” to maintain. Your biggest maintenance expense is tires, your second biggest maintenance expense is windshield wipers, your third is window washer fluid. Then look at the model 3. Then look at certified pre-owned Teslas direct from Tesla. Compare the total cost to an ICE (internal combustion engine) car. Look at the 300,000 mile Tesloop maintenance costs , take a test drive, then ask me for my coupon code.
But EVs are too quiet
I’m thinking of recording a Ferrari and using it as a horn noise… or just record my Pulik barking… at 3 am… as they do.
But EVs can’t handle snow.
I’ve been driving on snow and ice for many many years back in the dawn of time before ABS or AWD.
Tesla is the best car I’ve ever driven on snow and ice and that includes my first rear wheel drive Tesla. Contributing factors are the low center of gravity due to the battery placement, the superb traction control and the suspension which will raise or lower the car on the fly.
But you’re just one small company.
True. To date I’ve driven 2 Teslas over 125,000 fossil fuel free miles, saved over 1 million pounds of carbon on the garage solar panels alone, started the Groasis dryland tree project, the Biochar pipeline reclamation project, the Grassland mob grazing reclamation project and spearheaded a successful 3 year lobbying campaign for a rule change by the Colorado PUC to allow Tesla limousines as a luxury vehicle.
Stay tuned for developments on these and other initiatives.
The option which I never thought I’d use… is saving my life and the lives of my passengers …. one breath at a time.
This time last year the sky was orange. We were living with the Lake Christine Fire.
Lake Christine Fire: July 3, 2019 to October 6, 2019
I just had the bio-weapon defense filter changed. Here’s a picture of the new filter.
Here’s a picture of the old filter… a picture of what I would have been breathing in every day of that wildfire if it hadn’t been for the bio-weapon defense mode on the Tesla Model S.
Thank you Tesla.
Soooooooo cool!
Want more? Of course you do.
… and here’s the ad… because… yeah… we need drifting and drone footage.
Simone…. you want more Simone?… (and I suggest you watch Simone’s channel during commercial breaks for Westworld… wait… there are no commercial breaks for Westworld… oh… okay… well… if there were a commercial break for Westworld this would definitely be *it*.)