There is a lot of talk these days about saving power, or rather finding ways for us to ‘consume more’ while ‘burning less’.

Companies such as Tesla Motors have been building an entire business on the premise that people would want to sustain a desirable lifestyle, driving fast & furious, without stopping once for fuel – commercializing electric cars. 2 months ago, Tesla Motors announced going beyond the car business, and offering people to also buy their proprietary batteries, same ones used in their supercars – called Tesla Powerwall.

The best way to think of Tesla’s batteries is instead of using one big cell to charge something, they use thousands of small lithium-ion cells, same standard ones that can be found in our laptops or phones. They made those batteries better, and they are currently provided solely to Tesla by Panasonic, one of their investors.

When you travel far away from America, to places such as Africa, or more specifically heaven such as Seychelles, saving power and taking care of the environment is a big deal. But also sustaining a desirable lifestyle. On quite a massive jungle-like part of Mahe island, at the Four Seasons , there is an amazing resort with 100+ rechargeable buggies; they drive about 15 km per hour, for about 4-8 hours (pending how hard you use them), and it takes about 9 hours to charge them.

I asked a great guy driving one of these if he would mind telling me a bit about the buggy, and if they use Tesla batteries. He wasn’t really into the Tesla idea 🙂 and I got to admit, I’m also not a Tesla guy; to be frank – who wants a car that makes no noise. But 20+ hours flight from America, over there in Seychelles … there is a guy who can tell you about electric cars (buggies) just as passionately as Elon Musk.

I totally enjoyed it, and hope you do too.