I want one!!
Smoke just about any car at a red light and never have to go to a gas station.
Yankee Ingenuity.
I drove one of these in PGR4. :)
You know...the blind are allready having problems with silent cars...there will be blood before they have to put artificial noise in these cars...
100,000 miles is not very long, although I suppose in the ten years it will take you to hit that it wont take thirty thousand dollars to replace the battery packs.
It is also interesting to not that a few years ago they were being sold for 92,000 on preorders.
Like a typical journalist, the reporter neglects my first question: How many kilowatt-hours does it suck up in those 3.5 hours?
I’m not exactly sure how it works but don’t we need fuel for electricity? This is great if we can be more energy dependent but I was just wondering if we will still need foreign oil.
I’m not exactly sure how it works but don’t we need fuel for electricity? This is great if we can be more energy dependent but I was just wondering if we will still need foreign oil.
Tesla was a lot more than a simple inventor/pioneer.
Tesla may begin delivering Roadsters with temporary transmissions[will fail in a few thousand miles]
Monday December 24, 08:01:39 GMT-0800 2007 · by grundle · 25 replies · 6+ views
autoblog.com ^ | Dec 13th 2007 | John Neff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1943844/posts
Nikola Tesla, a pure genius, he invented tomorrow!
Tesla’s Chairman and New CEO Talk Transmission Snags and Raising Another $40M
December 21st, 2007
They’ve set a goal of getting the company’s first vehicle -– the Roadster -– to a limited amount of customers in the first quarter of 2008. To meet that deadline they are overcoming a technology snag: the transmission.
Two suppliers failed to make Tesla’s transmission up to snuff, the executives say, and the company is now working with new companies in the hopes of figuring out a fix fast. The first cars they ship will actually have an interim, one-speed transmission, which the company will swap out for a two-speed transmission.
This is going to end up being a disaster for anybody who buys one. I just know it.
Electric cars? In California?!
I guess they must of taken care of their electricity shortage problem already!
To me the reason I didn’t like electric vehicles before was the range limitation. On previous models was something like 100 miles, but more like 80 in practice.
If you carry extra people and cargo, it affects range significantly. Cruising at say 65+ miles an hour really kills the range also.
The batteries have improved a lot now, they say 200 miles for this model. But it’s an incredibly lightweight car, with almost no cargo room. Where you would expect to put cargo in even this small car, I bet it is taken up by more batteries.
In a few years batteries get even better, then maybe it is appealing to more people. Yes the power is produced by big plants, but those big plants might produce less pollution per unit than a typical gas engine. $5 a “fillup” isn’t bad.
Wow, hadn’t read about the battery weight before this article! The Lotus test mule that they designed these off of weighs less than 1700 pounds. These batteries weigh 1000 pounds!
I don’t want to be THAT crash test dummy!