2008 Tesla Roadster: This Electric Sports Car Is the Real Thing
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=124716?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..2.* He was tall, looked fit in his spandex bicycling gear and — the reason we were a bit nervous — he was glaring at the little silver roadster with distaste. Had we inadvertently forced him off the road on one of our passes while photographing the electric-powered 2008 Tesla Roadster? No. His problem, it turns out, is that the car is "too quiet." The Tesla, clean and silent but for the hiss of tires on asphalt and the whine of the electric motor's cooling fan, disturbed him because he didn't hear it coming as we scooted by him on a twisty section of Skyline Boulevard in the mountains above Tesla's headquarters in San Carlos, California.
Nikola Tesla makes ...
Nikola Tesla makes an electric car that can run without batteries or oil and can go up to speeds to 90MPH in 1930. Tesla car company makes an electric car that can only travel 200 miles in 2008... wtf
SugarFreeTargets
i totally agree
i totally agree
StockyRock
If the oil ...
If the oil companies didn't exist. We would all driving electric car by now.
theartofluv
...first few ...
...first few minutes....you know how long it takes to drive 200 miles....alot more than a few minutes after leaving the garage....
Str8EdgeViper
fisker karma gets ...
fisker karma gets amazing reviews....only goes 50 miles before switching to the EXPENSIVE premium gas
Str8EdgeViper
Nikola Tesla would ...
Nikola Tesla would have adapted to this car a Magnetic Lightning Reactor, Electrode Propulsors and a Cool Looking Livewire animation on the Body. His name would have been honored for the next Milenium
virgoshaka9
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SotA1080
Electric vehicules ...
Electric vehicules should be kept underground to protect them from the power of the oil companies. Then, when enough people are using them, make it official. I'm sure the reason why most of them looks like shit, is because they do not want people to want to buy them. If I had the mechanic skills to do it, I would put an electric engine in an Aston Martin and make it my own electric car. It would be the first good looking electric car.
klb2000000
this electric car ...
this electric car is already exist long time ago.. fuck all gas company and the arabs. also water fuel car is all ready exist. fuck you all..
wilsonsanz45
too true - my Audi ...
too true - my Audi S4 barely gets that around town.
geffel
gt 111 sports car ...
gt 111 sports car made in the philippines 250 horse power, speed 220 km/hour.....automatic self charge no need to recharge the battery. One european company is now negotiating to mass produce the car....goodbye gasoline...:D
jungoico
how does it cost ...
how does it cost more to make this car than any other petrol car? even if this car uses unergy from a poluting power plant, most power plants should be far more efficient and less poluting than a gas car. batteries are not hard to recycle, a lot of people can do it themselves watch?v=NzIMq9JdbfA&feature=BFa&list=HL1316923929&lf=mh_lolz&index=183 .
gaypotter
Back up your claim ...
Back up your claim with evidence of what I am saying is not true. .Otherwise you look like a idiot calling someone else a idiot.. but in any case.. your welcome.
freespeachrulez
just 220 miles?!?!? ...
just 220 miles?!?!??! what the fuck is wrong with that??!! thats a huge range, fucking sabotaging gas wanking FUCKS!!
gaypotter
you are an idiot, ...
you are an idiot, congratulations.
gaypotter
70 Amps.. and for ...
70 Amps.. and for what it costs to charge this car, the production waste of energy and fuel used to make this car, the cost to recycle the batteries and make the batteries and the cost and waste associated there.. Not saving much at all if any. These care just do not make any economical sense when all factors and weighed in.
freespeachrulez
you can cross the ...
you can cross the UK more than 2ce in taht thing :D
Zlin0035
well said
well said
FutebolFanatico001
great. mr tesla ...
great. mr tesla rules.
MIIGUELFERREIRA
The Tesla Roadster ...
The Tesla Roadster is built from a Lotus Elise.
GlassDeviant
Yes, Nikola Tesla ...
Yes, Nikola Tesla built a Pierce Arrow that from wireless energy (taken from the no longer existing trolley infrastructure), but who is going to pay to (re-)build the infrastructure to supply that energy and how is it going to be billed.? Furthermore, how is it going to be generated? Coal power plants? Nuclear? Do a little more research on those "water powered" cars in Japan too, because it's obvious you have barely a clue what you are talking about.
GlassDeviant
ok im not going to ...
ok im not going to keep arguing when its obviously clear which is a better energy alternative for cars. 1 nuclear power plant can provide energy to 5 million electric cars. So your saying 5 million cars that burn gasoline into the air is more efficient and more environmentally friendly than1 nuclear power plants nuclear waste?
AllForTheGame
How do you dispose ...
How do you dispose of all the nuclear waste? Look on the internet and tell me if you can find a nuclear power plant that has been successfully dissembled once it's life span is over?
RustyRustler
Hydrogen takes more ...
Hydrogen takes more energy to make than you get back so there is pollution in the production of it. Same goes with electric but it's less overall than producing hydrogen. However you can create electricity from sun, wind etc so it has a better overall potential. It's early days in the world of electric cars now that so many companies are finally trying to perfect the technology.
RustyRustler
Hydro power ...
Hydro power generates NO pollution, why would you use nuclear when it's no less dangerous to produce nuclear waste than gas or coal waste? Hell, put up your own solar or wind power plant on your property and have so much power you can sell it back to the power company.
GlassDeviant