Tesla electric sports car

leahcim

I'd love one of these.

http://www.teslamotors.com/

0 to 60 mph in under 4 seconds.

Top speed of 130mph.

They calculate that it does the equivalent of 135 miles gallon.

You would have great satisfaction being in the lowest VRT and road tax emission categories.

The future looks bright for performance cars.

DublinDilbert

2 of the electric motors from the Tesla car have enough power to power a city BUS! Delfi, who are also part of GM used parts from the Tesla in the development of hybrid busses....

japasca

What a great car, been reading about them for about a year.
Apparently there is a long waiting list for them in the states, but it would be a great car to get for 60,000 euro with the weak dollar if possible.
Shame about the Left hand drive only tho. It would be sweet to have a wind turbine on top of your garage charging the batterys so you would get free motoring. Also due to the tiny amount of moving parts compared to a regular car i'm sure the reliability would be pretty good right?

r3nu4l

Very old thread but worthy of resurrection I feel

According to autoexpress, it is on sale in Europe...if you have £92000 to spare.

Apparently, it makes so little noise that safety campaigners are worried that people won't hear the car coming and this could cause more pedestrian accidents. Whatever happened to the Green Cross Code then? :rolleyes:

DublinDilbert

r3nu4l wrote: »

Apparently, it makes so little noise that safety campaigners are worried that people won't hear the car coming and this could cause more pedestrian accidents. Whatever happened to the Green Cross Code then? :rolleyes:

This is a serious problem with every electric car, i've driven quite a few of them...

They are lovely to drive, smooth and so quiet, just like the new AC DART trains

Seth Brundle

There is a review of it in todays Irish Times: Tesla electric supercar makes it to Europe

r3nu4l

Well I'm really looking forward to the day when we are all driving electric cars and we won't have any more boy-racer twats fitting super-noisy exhausts to their cars any more

Although, it has been suggested that these cars may be fitted with a recording of an engine noise to make them more noticeable...I can see a market for boy-racers buying "Ferarri F430" engine noises for their Saxo's and Glanzas...:rolleyes:

EDIT: Thanks kbannon

/when did the Irish Times online become free? IT used to be €72 a year...

craichoe

kbannon wrote: »

There is a review of it in todays Irish Times: Tesla electric supercar makes it to Europe

Isn't really a review though

Seth Brundle

Sorry - this was the link I had intended to post (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/motors/2008/0827/1219680008357.html)
I didn't realsie there were two articles on it in the one supplement!

Seth Brundle

r3nu4l wrote: »

/when did the Irish Times online become free? IT used to be €72 a year...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0628/1214567648629.html

traco

r3nu4l wrote: »

Well I'm really looking forward to the day when we are all driving electric cars and we won't have any more boy-racer twats fitting super-noisy exhausts to their cars any more

Although, it has been suggested that these cars may be fitted with a recording of an engine noise to make them more noticeable...I can see a market for boy-racers buying "Ferarri F430" engine noises for their Saxo's and Glanzas...:rolleyes:

I can see it now - no more crazy frog ringtones - they'll all be downloading the latest formula 1 engine sounds.

Back to teh Tesla - looks like an interesting project, the thing Iwould be very interested to know is the cost of the batteries and their cycle rating - must have a look at their website.

r3nu4l

Downloadable engine noises...Nooooo!!!!


Very good review and video of the car in action in this weeks iMotor

http://dennis.cerosmedia.com/1V48a196020eca4739.cde

It's on Pages 14 and 15.

It really is quiet!! Although you only realise that about 1.30 into the video when they stop the music and the reviewer stops talking.

Phenomenal!

smash

Take away the press shots and look at it on the road... It's nowhere near as pretty as an elise... It looks unfinished in my opinion

r3nu4l

I personally think the Elise is a god-awful looking car, it's like a toy car. I'm disappointed that it looks so much like it

Max_Damage

A sports car that will sound like a washing machine.

I'll pass.

r3nu4l

Max_Damage wrote: »

A sports car that will sound like a washing machine.

I'll pass.

That's so old fashioned of you :pac:

Actually, I just thought of another problem, with less engine noise, when we're all driving these cars, we'll be able to hear other drivers choices of music even more clearly

Great, now I'll have earfulls of Scooter on a Friday night as the boy-racers preen and prance about in their cars

PaddyFagan

japasca wrote: »

Shame about the Left hand drive only tho.

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/euro_roadster/

thereg wrote:

The company also plans to build 250 European Roadsters, which will be fully completed at Lotus, and will set up sales and support operations in the UK and Germany.

That would make me think the Uk spec car might right hand drive?

That article also notes that the European cars will have the full power transmission from the start (0-60 in 4 secs or so) where as the US cars delivered to date have an intermediate transmission (_only_ doing 0-60 in 6 secs).

Paddy