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2009 Tesla Roadster - Car and Driver

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  • If they can figure out how to speed up the charging on these things to a few minutes, they'll kill the gas guzzlers.

  • Can't wait to hear how this changes the aural environment too. Full freeways that are quiet?

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  • @TecnamTwin I'm agreeing with you.... in case I gave the wrong impression.

  • @TecnamTwin Ah, for F*ck sake, I'd just have some custom designed sway bars added and call it a day. For $125,000 I'm sure I could afford to figure out how to make it handle as well as gas alternatives. Besides, even if it's impossible, at least I could feel like I spent a hell of a lot of money on something that's much faster and much more environmentally friendly than 80% of the sports cars out there

  • @iain399 Dude, you don't know what your talking about. This car handles really well, just not as well as say a Lotus or a Porshe. But really, its an all-electric lightning bolt! How dare you compare it to an SUV! Maybe a Porshe Cayenne, which really is a 911 wearing a SUV body. This is a bonafide supercar that just happens to be electric.

  • I've always wanted an electric car, but this one looks like it handles terribly. You can see the driver expects oversteer at 1:16 but the car is so heavy it just understeers - he panics and hits the brakes. This isn't a very well balanced sports car which makes it seem odd that they dressed it up as one. It behaves more like an SUV.

  • @Slegarthoth 30min is pretty fast. and if it like $5 buck.

  • Use induction coil charging. Have one coil on car, and other coils all over the place: home, intersections where cars line up, parking spaces. Use RFID chips for billing related to public coils.

  • why dont we put 3 tesla motors in a big rig and cover the trailer with solar panels? am i the only one grossed out when a big rig farts black smoke at an intersection? and maybe do the same thing to buses and trains and RV's. the sun is out for the busiest parts of the day, we should milk it.

  • @fivedollarsagallon freeways are largely road noise like tires. but it will be quieter

  • @dpstarcom it called a generator

    gas,deisel,propane,wind turbine,solar....

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