Going back to what I was talking about, I’m really excited about these green products that people actually WANT. It’s a fully electric sports car that goes 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and gets 250 miles per charge. It has an electric motor which has instantaneous torque. You know when you’re on the freeway and you need to pass someone, so you put your foot down, your automatic transmission thinks for a little bit, lazily gets into gear, and then you finally accelerate? Well that won’t happen in this car.
Granted, it’s over $100,000, but it has the performance of a $100,000+ conventional sports car. I think Tesla is setting this up as a halo car, with more practical cars coming our way. If you plug it into your electric grid at night, we are talking less than $0.02/mile. My car currently gets 20mpg, at $3.40/gallon, we are talking about $0.17/mile. I know which one I’d pick.
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March 25th, 2008 at 6:16 am
This car is really cool. I guess if I was the kind of guy who buys sports car I would go for this one.
I went to the Geneva motor show, but couldn’t see anything close to that car. But there was a lot of green car from other company. like the Recharge concept from Volvo. Unfortunately the famous one’s like Ferrari Lamborgini Mercedece Audi don’t really care about environmental issues and don’t even have concepts.
What is cool about the Telsa is that it’s already available. I’m wondering if you can get it in Europe????
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Definitely a cool car. The R&D is done real close to here (Silicon Valley), so there’s been a lot of buzz about it in the papers/news..etc for a couple years now. It’s also been seen at a lot of the popular car/motorcycle hot-spots (we have GREAT driving roads).
Only issue I’ve heard so far is with the transmission, where they’re asking people to buy them now, and expect to get an updated replacement tranny in a few months, when it’s being produced.
Don’t discount Mercedes, either. They’ve got a lot of interesting things in the works…not totally “green”, but HUGE improvements over current tech. Clean diesel and emissions laundering come to mind…
I don’t know exactly about getting one in Europe, but cars like these usually make their way around the world in short order because they’re in such high demand.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Ok didn’t know about mercedes, I just didn’t see anything about greener cars in their booth at the motor show.
Has you said they are in high demand! They’ve started the waiting list for 2009:-)
For the one who want to see video of the car follow the link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+car&search_type=