Elon Musk: The new Tesla Roadster can travel some 400 miles on a single charge

The Washington Post's The Switch Blog ^ | December 26, 2014 | Brian Fung

[bray]

Course this is going to cost double what a gas car will cost and a fill-up only takes 10 mins.

Pray America is waking

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The Electric Car Sucks thread???

[Moonman62]

I don’t think they make the Roadster anymore, so this will be an upgrade kit for owners who already have the car.

[Secret Agent Man]

well that will allow it to have the same mileage as an older ford escape.

[ClearCase_guy]

If I were a billionaire, it's the car I would own ...

But I'm not.

[cripplecreek]

I can refill my tank in 5 minutes.

[SkyDancer]

At a hundred thousand each how long would it take to amortize it over say a Nissan Sentra at twenty-one grand and 30+ MPG?

[bajabaja]

I don’t think electric cars suck, but Tesla appears to be surviving very well based on credits and other structured tax and environmental credits. So you and I subsidize it.

[tacticalogic]

If I were a billionaire, it's the car I would own ...
But I'm not.

So you just get to help pay for it.

[Olog-hai]

It’s been a very long time since the era when electric cars outsold combustion-engined cars, whether internal combusion or external (and external once outsold internal).

[headstamp 2]

“If I were a billionaire, it’s the car I would own ...
But I’m not.”

That’s OK. You get to help him pay for it.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Saw a Tesla the other day in my VERY small town. It came to the intersection and refused to wait. Then cut through the corner gas station to make time.

[TurboZamboni]

Leotardo DiCraprio thanks us.

[WildWeasel]

Pass the Grey Poupon please.

[Libloather]

this will be an upgrade kit for owners who already have the car.

[doorgunner69]

Thrilling, but at what speeds can it do this?

If the speed profiles mirroed that of a gas engine getting similar mileage, then maybe there is a point here.

Of course, if the damn thing needs to sit all night to recharge and is not available to drive, it is essentially useless.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Tesla is not competing against the Nissan Sentra.

[jonascord]

I've always wondered where the mentally challenged who piss away so much money on one of these things think the electricity appears from?

Dylithium crystals? Unicorn farts? Humpback whale songs? I know it's some kind of non-deity faith based system that hinges on "settled science."

I'd make a point of telling them it's coal, natural gas from fracked wells or nuclear. But, it's more fun to keep it a tippy-top secret, held by only the intelligent and anyone who remembers third grade science.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Tesla is not competing against the Nissan Sentra.

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The Tesla CAN’T compete against the Nissan Sentra or any other gasoline/diesel powered vehicle.

Get back to me when you can “fuel” a straight electric vehicle as quickly as one of those archaic buggies favored by us backward troglodytes.