The electric car's faster than Porsche and Ferrari

With the problems of global warming most of us want to be cleaner and greener. So you would think the electric car, with no carbon emissions, would be a hit in Silicon Valley. In fact it has been a disaster, but the dream is not dead.

The car is powered by ordinary lithium ion batteries, exactly the same kind you would find in laptops or smart phones. However, it needs 7,000 of them, all put into a large battery case, which makes up a third of the car's total weight.

The Tesla Roadster is incredibly simple. It has 12 moving parts. It needs no oil change, filters, spark plugs or clutch. Plug it in overnight and you are ready to go again in the morning.

Electric engines do not wind up the power like combustion engines do. You get 100% of the torque from the second you touch the pedal. For the Roadster that means 0 to 60mph (100km/h) in four seconds.

Inside, the car has been stripped down to bare essentials. Two gears take you from 0 to 65 and then on to 130mph (210km/h).

The X1 goes from 0-60 in three seconds

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[larsinla]

GM killed the first electric car that really worked> the EV1 then they killed it altho plenty of people wanted to buy the car. check out who killed the electric car a documentary that says it all.

u could say it was a crime against humanity to destroy this car and the future development of it.

[dushiemcbag]

gilessmokey = oil exec

[sickgeeza]

car companies make more money selling parts. seeing as an electric cars only have a few moving parts car manufactures don't make the money on parts. so not just about the petrol.

[fcontitwo]

+++ i want three of these !!!,,:)

[fcontitwo]

+++ BeAutiful !!! :)

[oldschoolgreentube]

@larsinla Quite whining. Its gone. If was as easy to make and the data necessary to make it work was as common knowledge as you idiots make it seem some one else would be pumping them out as fast as they could. It wasn't commercially viable thats all get over it.

[thinkingman07]

@leaualorin well said.



[wikieditspam]

@larsinla Do your home work on this one, think deeply about why they took it off of production in the first place. It was impractical and unsustainable. The beauty of an electric car is that it can run off of any energy source with the right plug. But right now electric cars just don't cut it. You'll be burning more coal by using them until there are significant improvements in infrastructure. Germany is getting rid of nuclear power-plants because we're screwed if one blows. they'll use coal

[wikieditspam]

Stop using the word Green as a means of describing supposed "Friendliness to the Environment" the bottom line is a machine's ability to pollute as little as possible during both operation and manufacturing. Take the Prius for example, a hybrid boasting 70mpg. Now actually research it. if you do want a good fuel-efficient hatch-back get yourself either a golf diesel or a Fiat 500 (which is currently the cleanest running petrol car on production, and one of the best "warm-hatchbacks"

[paytontech]

@Zlin0035 Yeah, and you can recycle the batteries. Try that with burnt dinosaurs!

[Zlin0035]

@davids5a2 Greener than drilling for oil, cheaper too. 

[davids5a2]

Oh, and manufacturing batteries is GREEN?