2008 Tesla Roadster: This Electric Sports Car Is the Real Thing
www.edmunds.com 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.
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Jul 28, 2010 12:03 am |
sik car..
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Jul 28, 2010 12:04 am |
if they finally stop making cars fast ( you’ll lose ur license anyway when u drive your maximum car speed ) they can make the cars even more efficient..
just like (sry off the subject) there is still war, the war industry just wants war! its all about money and power. Not about us or the environment…
BTW: the main reason we’re still not driving these cars, our oil friends dont want that
Jul 28, 2010 12:07 am |
put this into yr browsers::
electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com/2010/03/does-lotus-elise-use-less-energy-than.html
Jul 28, 2010 1:06 am |
@jewlzorjay put this into yr browser:: electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com/2010/03/does-lotus-elise-use-less-energy-than.html
Jul 28, 2010 1:49 am |
@Shapechanger it charges in 45min, so you can go way farther than 220 a day
Jul 28, 2010 2:49 am |
awesome car …
If I had the money I’d definitely buy and drive Tesla.
(lol, who the hell drives 350 km A DAY? I doubt people who can afford Tesla are working for some cargo company)
Jul 28, 2010 3:33 am |
why is it so damn exclusive!! wtf like more than enough ppl need this car!! the telsa sedan is perfect for everyone! watch 2 yrs from now there will be a telsa SUV price range (96k) why, cuz america has no market for electric car…shyea right! weve been needing this since the 90s…the RAV4 EV, GM ev1, honda EV+, even nissan had evs
Jul 28, 2010 3:59 am |
This car can accelerate faster then a porche without using a single drop of fuel
Jul 28, 2010 4:06 am |
@eldictator1
I don’t care about thirsty sportscars, anything that’s not universal (wagon), hatchback or small minivan ain’t a normal car to me 8D, only a toy for weeekends.
BTW, I more entusiastic about electric cars now, just red about “Project Better Place”, as I understand, you don’t buy batterie with car, you pay for it bit by bit as you buy electricity, and it’s HUGE difference that makes electric care reasonably priced. Right now project is tested in Israel and Denmark.
Jul 28, 2010 4:57 am |
@SwineNahNah Range goes down when you push a car hard. The ferrari F40 has 1mpg when driven hard
Jul 28, 2010 5:17 am |
I want an electric car in the worst way, but it needs to be affordable.
I’d like to see a simple $12,000 vehicle produced for the masses.
A range of just 220 miles? This guy talks like that’s a mild distance. Who goes this far on a daily basis? This would fit almost everyone’s driving needs.
Jul 28, 2010 5:40 am |
@Cerberus221 also a full “tank” costs only 5 dollars
seriously if this car has any real downsides i havent heard them yet.
Jul 28, 2010 6:08 am |
@gilessmokey Oh yeah also you said efficienty its about the same as a gas powered car. This is because the gas car holds the bench mark.
However given that the gas powered car has a had X amount of years worth engeneering evolution should theire efficientcy reallly be the same?
the gas powered car is comeing to the end of the road and now its time for a new replacement.
Unless they can genetically cloan oil the gas/petrol car will die.
Jul 28, 2010 6:47 am |
@gilessmokey I wouldn’t exspect a person to charge from home, i was thinking more along the lines of installing a electric power station in a petrol stations, and it would look sothing like a normal petrol pump and tale the same amount of time.
“The reason why it’s the car of the future is because it works like the car of today” ( top gear James May 2008?)
Jul 28, 2010 7:33 am |
@adampaulda or you could use this oil in a diesel engine,turn it into mechanical power amd use it. overall efficiency is about the same and each method will use similar amounts of fuel.
Jul 28, 2010 8:23 am |
@adampaulda for simplicity sake,think of this car getting it`s power from an oil fired power station.first the oil is turned into mechanical power then into electric then transformed into high voltage,sent down wires then transformed down and converted into direct current then stored as chemical energy in batteries,then returned into electric then back into alternating current,into the motor then turned into the mechanical power that you need. each change=reduced efficiency and more fuel used.
Jul 28, 2010 8:37 am |
@gilessmokey but proportionally the energy the car uses through electricity would it be like getting over 700 mpg
Jul 28, 2010 8:42 am |
@jewlzorjay to recharge in five minutes you would need a massive 700 kilowatts supply, bear in mind that a kettle usess 2kw and is a high drain appliance.the most you can plug in from a uk house is about 3kw . these cars still use same very large amounts of energy and overall efficiency is very similar to petrol or diesel. shure you can use renewable electric but you can also use renewable oil (diesel or ethanol (petrol)
Jul 28, 2010 9:02 am |
@1980KNIGHTRIDER The Roadster has a parts overlap of roughly 6 percent with the Lotus Elise wiki
Jul 28, 2010 9:45 am |
electric cars has improved, now the next step to mankind is to work on Electric airplane.
Jul 28, 2010 9:52 am |
design issues
Jul 28, 2010 10:41 am |
@1980KNIGHTRIDER Combined with a giant RC car!
Jul 28, 2010 10:43 am |
Cool music. Reminds me of Need For Speed 2′s videos.
Jul 28, 2010 11:02 am |
@Cerberus221
Actually some Germans do, very few of course, and they do more than just 110, I’ve heard of a guy doing 360km in less than 2 hours, more like 1,5h, one way each day (so it’s ~435miles total) on his sportscar. It would be impossible without autobahns of course.
Jul 28, 2010 11:10 am |
@miankd
Yeah, I found it later, that this was car still in it’s development. Nice, but price still bites.
Besides I really not that much into sportscars, I’d like to see a minivan (like Opel Meriva or Toyota Yaris, wich is small and agile, so you can drive it to cramped city parking’s 6th floor no problem) for commuting (my personal avareg.: ~22km on weekdays and ~100km on weekends). A pretty one, not that Indian midget scarecrow (which officialy is a quadracycle anyway) they use in London.
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