Tesla: Test Driving the Sexy, New Eco-Friendly Roadster

[quantumdude]

900 hundreds fucking pounds ?

[davetron22]

we make electricity lots of ways. but wind and water are some of the best ways.

[boxa888]

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[istvansm87]

no emissions. I have just one question. How do we produce electicity?

[boxa888]

water is one that supports no emissions

[DRSmetal]

I want one!

[funestis]

me to

[russfelix]

Such techno-crap. What is the driving range for this car at 60 mph? 10 miles? 20 miles? This is as usless as mams on a bore hog. Who paid for the development of this "eco-friendly" novelty. Tesla is a good name for it. If you read the history of Nikoli Tesla you will see that he was a smart man in some ways but totally stupid in others. Like he thought he had perfected a death-ray that would shoot around the curvature of the earth. It turned out it didn't but it took him years to believe it.

[swinginabigone]

Its faster than a Porsche GT3, looks beautiful, pollutes much less than a Prius, and is the first attempt at a production electric vehicle. This is instant vintage, along with the Model T. We are witnessing a paradigm shift in human transportation, remember this moment because the whole auto industry is disarray, now is the perfect time to challenge the incumbent automakers and create real change.

[canis12]

" first attempt at a production electric vehicle"

you apparently never heard of the GM EV1

[insightllc]

@swinginabigone Something obviously went wrong in September 2009. Did? they cause Sumatra? Did they invent "Zelda Fan" Susie Sahim to retroactively explain why the Nintendo Tri-Force logos were included in the Doodles in the first place and take the blame off George Hwang because he was instructed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to include the symbolic Triforce art? Wish we could ask The Three Musketeers of Tesla Motors but they died in Palo Alto and their bodies were burned beyond recognition.

[insightllc]

@swinginabigone Google power meter was invented to regulate the consumption of power potentially provided to the public for sale by Google Energy, LLC using 111 year old Tesla technology. This venture between Elon Musk and Google was commemorated by the Triforce Easter egg symbols in 2009. Many of these triangle symbols were incorporated into the Google Doodles that lead up to the 09/09/09 9:09:09 Google Doodle? and were subsequently removed from record in The Great Google Doodle Conspiracy.

[BFTCaL]

any part of the car made in America.

[doniek94]

anyone seen the palin vid?

[9717587]

wow i really like this video

[idontgiveafuck08]

looks like a pos lol

[umbongosidboatang]

wow 100 digital ly eletric cars are wickeeeed!!!! big up the drive about crew !!!!

[frohwrx]

Definitively I am charmed with this car, but they should consider use batteries of polymer of lithium, this way the capacity of load would be very much major, in addition to place an electrical engine of major efficiency to compensate, Tesla Motors brings from 200 to 400 horsepowers over it would be ideal for the suggested price.

Cheers

[achubbs]

lithium polymers explode very easily stressed

[DriveByTroll]

They said it uses lithium ion.

[roots4x]

I think it's funny when people think they have ideas that very smart engineers would never have thought of. frohwrx, I'm sure the engineers that made this car considered all forms of performance/availability/cost/­reliability when making the car.

Also, this car wasn't made to be an efficient slow car. This was made to be a sports car. That's like saying the Corvette should use a 4 cylinder motor to be more fuel efficient.

[throttlelever]

I will buy one!

[SCOTSDOC]

At $90,000 it cannot be claimed to be any answer to pollution free family transportation.

I would put it in the class of an interesting technological toy!

In Canada some concern has been raised about the safety of the complicated LITHIUM battery pack 'fire potential'.

[clokverkorange]

If you check the website, Tesla Motors has said they are using the Roadster as a "proof of concept" and a fund-generator, and they will be producing a four seater family sedan at almost half the cost of the Roadster.

Research wins again.

[ekuwa69]

There is no offset for the price. It's a good price for a "Sports car" that goes 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

[ugems]

Sounds quick and quiet. You describe the acceleration very well. Tx the review.