Tesla Roadster Test Drive

[WUCKO91]

Nikola Tesla(Serbian: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[basketbuie]

$110,000?!?! yea id save more money actually buying gas

[51909relapseminem]

@basketbuie true, but after you buy the car you end up paying less for fuel. also the car is still relativley new, in about another 10 or so years the price will go down

[ImYourGeek]

That car looks very tight.

[Georgeqaws]

that thing sounds way to tempting to speed with. I would probably get my license taken away in the first week lol

[jjgreedyify]

i no the black guys is thinking in his mind..._> ill pushed the shxt out off hime and take that shxt..lmao

[BiologicalUnit2380]

gonna "get the world off of oil" with electric cars, huh? Strangely the car contains items which either contain oil, or need oil for their manufacture, or need oil for lubrication:. IE : tires, wiring, plastic components, fabrics etc.... not to mention the fact that lubricants were needed for the factory machines which produced the parts.

[install8er]

@BiologicalUnit2380

Regardless, it will still use FAR less oil/ petrol products in its lifetime.......

[Combo2049]

LMFAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ITS SOOO TIGHT and you turn tight and its just sooo tight! lol

[Necropiet]

no money for a good microphone?

[Stalicone]

Sniffle, snort...Where do ya think electricity comes from? Coal burning power plants, nukes, Diesel Gen sets, there is no escaping fossil fuels! Got a plan for electric Jet aircraft? Everything and I mean EVERYTHING has a price. Want windmills to generate your juice? Windmills kill thousands of migratory birds every year! All electric cars do is shuffle the deck - the cost to the environment is exactly the same. The energy required to move mass never changes - laws of physics!!

[jabberwock95]

This is hilarious. First you mention nuclear power right along with fossil fuels. Nuclear power is not a fossil fuel, and it's actually very non-polluting, carbon wise.

Plus you seem not to be familiar with the concept of 'efficiency'. Power plants are much more efficient than cars, meaning 1 gallon of oil burnt in a power station can get your Tesla Roadster much further than 1 gallon of oil turned into petrol will get your car. ELECTRIC CARS ARE MORE EFFICIENT AND SO POLLUTE MUCH LESS. Clear?

[Stalicone]

Spoken like a true sycophant of the Carbon crowd! Efficiency? Please explain to me me how a diesel generator which burns fuel as inefficiently as any other diesel engine, translates to MORE efficient use of the fuel? You have to generate the electricity, transmit it (energy lost through friction and heat) and then recharge the car! You still have to burn the fuel in a motor! The nation's grid cant handle 200,000,000 cars! Remember the California Brown outs? That was just from Air Conditioners!

[jabberwock95]

@Stalicone Your average petrol/diesel engine has 20% efficiency. A fossil fuel power station manages 30-50%. So burning the fuel in a power stations gives you more energy than burning it in your car. Power stations also trap most other nasty pollutants such as NO2 and SO2 very well, while cars pump them right into the air.

As for Mt. St. Helens, a quick google search shows that volcanoes account for less than 1% of global yearly CO2 emmissions. The rest being produced by human activity. Hmm.

[Stalicone]

Also, Nuclear Power may not be a fossil fuel - But it is responsible for thermal pollution, not to mention the costs and hazards of storing...note not "disposing" of the waste! Carbon? Bullcrap! Mt. St. Helens released more carbon when it exploded than all the industrial endeavors of mankind...put together! See Boyles Law and Charles Law of mixed gases in variable environments. Here is the facts of life - There is no free ride! To move any mass, costs exactly the same amount of energy !

[abbaby555]

-the fat ass at the gas station was clueless !  LOL!

[andane]

cool car but the journalist was annoying

[r25rjr]

Just like cell phones were once expensive in the 80's and early 90's, Electric cars like the tesla roadster is expensive now but in the future it will be affordable. Just wait until the price drops

[carl206rc]

I love that car but this is the worst thest drive I have never seen

[beatsdddx]

The Arab oil industry hates this car.

I want one so bad, i wonder if Ferrari,Lamborghini

,Porsche etc are working on their own electric sports car?

[malgacho]

Got to love this car.

[Tarik360]

Just, so Tight, tightely tight, tight!

[ahmadusa89]

i understand that this car is great and unbelievable but i wouldnt pay 100K for this!

i better buy a house with that price!

[TheLizard17]

A corvette costs more. Its not a city car dam it its a FREAKING SPORTS CAR, what price can you expect?

[HLSDK]

@TheLizard17 Well with similar performance, the Corvette ZR-1 is actually a few thousand dolalrs less expensive, with the Z06 being at least $40,000 less and the regular C6 corvettes being less than half the price of the roadster.

But this car is just so darn cool :-D

[firestormx2k]

A house that cheap? In Germany you've got to pay 250K Euro (and it wouldn't be in the city either) for a very small house (about 120 qm)... So sad :(

[judasatan]

I bet if we still had Tesla we would have flying cars. Fuck Edison.

[ramonet27101993]

a new world coming! no more gasoline!!!yeah,ejjeje

[LesZao]

All you hippies must drooling cuz of the efficiency.

But I'm drooling cuz this thing hangs with the twin turbo supras, and rx7's!

Fuck!

[formula88]

I'd drive one. Pretty cool. I'd pit it against my cammed trans am.

[Destructo93]

it's Tiwght, tiwght liwke a Tiwger!

[IIIIY0UTUBEIIIIIIIII]

F a k e a b l e

[liberaluk10]

OIL IS..

-Finite, Under growing demand, Polluting, Mostly foreign owned, Imported over long distances, Imported from unstable countries, Devastating in the event of a spill, Our reason for invading Iraq, One of the reasons we threaten Iran, Inflamed problems in Sudan, Burnt inefficiently in cars, Volatile & unpredictable, Expensive, Unsustainable.

..and somehow this dodgy product supports almost every aspect of our existence!

How much evidence do we need?

[SiLvErUnIt911]

dude i caaaaaaaaan't hear you NYC is very loud.

[MoSsGR]

you know, its VERY TIGHT

[AnonymousCowardX]

tight. tight! very tight.

Tight tight tight.

So tight! And tight too.

Tight, tight, very tight

[cephal0p0d]

The govt should have given Tesla control of GM instead of bailing them out.

[ratryu]

I don't think Elon Musk would want to sort out that huge mess.

[tnguyen318]

I came by the Tesla Dealership about a week ago. I went inside a Tesla Roadster. I Materials used are good. Looks solid and built like a normal car. The doors are magnetic. It was a little more than I has expected. It is an electric car that looks like an "exotic". I want to check out the Model S.

[hopdude]

Not built at all like a normal car. You ever seen the bare chassis of it? It looks more like a go-cart. In fact, it's such an unusual configuration (all the weight in the back) that it will actually tip over backwards on a four-point lift.

Drives very solidly though.

[tnguyen318]

Yes, it does look like it is a rigid car. This is a break through for the electric car.

[tnguyen318]

Well, the hood is made of some material I do not know. I can not remove the body panel because i'm not an auto body mechanic. Other than that, the Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car dream. I wouldn't mind owning a Tesla Roadster and a Model S.

[quelorepario]

Please buy a mic yourself, man wtf!

[xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

these cars should a rack system for batteries. And gaz station should be replaced by some kind warehouses specialized in reloading batteries. So it would be really cool! No more need to wait for the car to recharge ;)

[demonikreaper]

Any idea what we would do with all those goddamn batteries?

[xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

I maybe missed a point here. But you just exchange your unloaded battery for a charged one....

[xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

But anyway i guess one day batteries will be replaced by super condensators..

[demonikreaper]

Are you saying we just have lots'a new batteries to replace and toss the old ones out? Or that we create a universal battery that works with every car on the planet? I suppose you may have been thinking that we recharge them rather than discard them, but that would still require a shitton of innovation and compliance from car companies.

[xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

no.The station will recharge the uncharged batteries so they can place it in another car.Nowadays batteries are made of lithium. So if we just make a standart rackable system for batteries it would be easy to place them in any car. When your batteries are uncharged you go to the station, let the uncharged cells at the station, the idea is that since it's standart rackable system, you place already charged ones in your car and you're ready to go! No new batteries waiting just charged ones

[STpacific]

this car is like my girlfriend

[angrychinesedriver]

LMFAO!!

he said tight about 250 times in the first minute inside the car.

[jonnysport89]

Good video.....but u may not have filled (charged) the car with oil(gas)...but you used coal to charge it instead. 99% of that car was made from oil. Tires, dashboard, etc. Soon we will have better ways of doing things. It takes time and innovation.

A quick charging solar power Gen. would be great! Or wind charger that stores energy, instead of coal, natual gas.

[rtsoccerplayer]

lol he looks like he crapped his pants when he was accelerating at 5:26

[elitenick]

Why would you drive to a gas station in an electric car, haha.

"What do ya think of that!" that is sort of mean lmao.

[ozzinaus]

would have been funny as if the gas station guy said 'i think its tight!'

[sonofkikkoman]

omg why was he blinking right when he drived away

[Karlibob]

It's very tight...

[sangolt88]

Cool, almost sounds like jet ;.D

[SCOTSDOC]

I still think the battery reliability and the car's  range are the two weaknesses....................­....otherwise I'd like one to tool around centre Town!

[Seth38101]

how were you able to test drive this car??

[talbertnz]

did you get beeped at ??? 3.31

[jlaw77]

That car is amazing! It sounds like a spaceship!

[GrantBradleyMovies]

so it's...... tight?

[saltcured]

It's a tight rocketship!

[keith455]

"The factories today all use electricity. "

where's the electricity come from? Somewhere they are burning fossil fuel to make this car., so electric cars aren't really "saving the planet"

[katahajime]

wrong, electric energy can be generated in thousands of "clean" methods....

[Deanzsyclone]

WRONG!

[evan13579b]

keith455:

Even in those cases in which it uses electricity from a coal plant, it is burned more efficiently from what I've read. So even if clean sources aren't used, running an electric car is more efficient and thus "saves the planet" if you believe in that sort of thing.

[ekuwa69]

Don't forget about the electricity used to pump and refine gasoline. The oil industry is actually the largest users of electricity in the world.

[afleececooper]

Electric cars are perfect for using up the excess power overnight, where power stations have to stay on, but the demand is currently next to nothing... improving the efficiency of the grid.

[eyesphere]

You HAVE to kidding because being so ignorant as to think there isn't demand for cars which don't run on gasoline is absolutely ridiculous. If a reasonably priced electric car were put on the market they wouldn't be able to make them fast enough. That's been proven. If you doubt it, look up the Documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car".

[keith455]

I feel for that guy at the end.. You seem happy that you'll be putting him out of a job. Also, how much gas does it take to make all the batteries that go in the thing?

GO USA and the Electric Revolution

[mos6507]

Yeah, let's cook the planet so minimum wage gas station attendants won't lose their jobs. Let's find something for buggy whip manufacturers to do while we're at it.

[keith455]

cook the planet?? that's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Still no answer on how much energy it takes to make and dispose of the batteries.

[Deanzsyclone]

Maybe less energy than it takes to build a gasoline engine for a new car?? Hmmmmm.

[stopcrazypp]

You can ask the same question during the industrial revolution making a whole bunch of people lose their jobs from being replaced with more efficient machines. People will just adopt and find a new job.

The amount of gas that goes into making the batteries + the car won't be much more than the amount to make any normal car; you can tell by weight. It's mostly the shipping part that uses gas (or diesel). The factories today all use electricity.

[Bogt]

I really like the end shot. It just says it all.

[w7mag]

And it's "Tight" too! :o)

Seriously, Very cool that you were given a chance to sample the hardware.

It sounds like the Monorail at Disneyland!

[asdfgoogle]

1:15 , nice blinker, Lyle. lol.

That black dude at 5:00 was awesome! lol.

Nice Tesla Grin!!