0-60 in about 4 seconds.
248 HP.
top speed: 130 mph.
Distance it can go without recharge: 200 miles. (Around what a normal car can do without refueling)
Recharges in 3.5 hours.
Now that's a good electric car!
The website of the company that makes it:
http://www.teslamotors.com/
So far this car is the only one produced by that company.
More pictures from tesla motor's website:
http://www.teslamotors.com/styling/body.php
The downside? List price: $92,000. Kinda neat! It'll be interesting to see how it does in real life. 3.5 hours to recharge makes it unusable for trips (for the moment), but it would be good for around home.
200 miles per charge is not that close to a normal car, I don't think. I think I'm getting about 350mi/tank now. But it isn't bad.
Biggest downside? It supports IPODS!. Bummer. 
Now that car looks really cool. I can already see myself cruising on boulevards with that. Being the cool guy in an electrical car, I bet that people won't even believe it is 100% electrical. Normally, electrical cars don't look that smooth.
I like it! I do find one thing a bit funny. The batteries have their own air conditioning system to prevent them from overheating. I also don't know about shelling out $100k for that.
There's one for sale out in West Palm Beach, Florida, was looking around for cars and noticed that. I was like WTF... Be kind of neat to test one of those babies out. Wonder how many times you have to charge it up and how far it will get before another recharge? What I wouldn't do to not have to pay for gas anymore. lol..Prices seem to be just going higher and higher and higher. Gas is getting as bad as cigerettes. It was less then 90k i believe that this guy was selling it for. can't remember where I found it. Racingjunk.com I believe.
The list price is now $98,000.
Electric motors are actually very powerful, and they can put out a very large amount of torque, the only problem is that so far its been hard for engineers to think up a way to store/create the power needed to power the motors. Batteries haven't evolved enough for us to store enough power in them to run big electric motors, which has caused people to think that electric motors are weak or slow -- which is not true at all.
I dunno how Tesla is storing so much power for their car =P. Lotus helped them make the Tesla though, which is why it looks so much like an Exige.
| sYxJesters wrote: |
I dunno how Tesla is storing so much power for their car =P. Lotus helped them make the Tesla though, which is why it looks so much like an Exige. |
They put in lots of LiIon batteries (the same type that are in your laptop). That's one reason it's so expensive; those high-performance batteries aren't cheap.I really wish i cud own one of those.... Wud b savin a lot on my daily trip 2 office. But the price gives me an heat attack 
