New Tesla S on sale in Europe now, anyone buying one

the culture of deference

Hot on the heels of the announcement that it'll open a distribution center in The Netherlands, Tesla Motors has spilled the beans on how many limbs Europeans will have to auction to afford one of its Model S EVs. The 60kWh edition will set you back €60,000 with the sportier (and faster) 85kWh version will begin at just under €92,000. Britons eager to get their hands on the cars will take heart that a right-hand-drive model may hit production in the tail-end of next year, but if you place your order before the end of December, you'll get the same €1,700 discount that our friends on the continent will enjoy.

Video of the Tesla S on a dyno sounds-like-a-fighter-jet-taking-off.

http://www.joe.ie/motors/motors-news/video-the-all-electric-tesla-model-s-sounds-like-a-fighter-jet-taking-off-0032863-1

Tesla's factory has now reached its goal of producing Model S electric sedans at a rate of 20,000 a year, or 400 a week.

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/teslas-factory-reaches-20000-model-s-year-run-rate.html

Matt Simis

As much as I hate on EVs, I just cannot hate on this one:



The "cheaper" 60Kw version sounds interesting, about the same price as a well spec'ed decent engine (ie not 520d) 5 series and hits some decent numbers:

- 330km range
- RWD with 302bhp and 407nm torque
- 190kph (ok weak for Autobahn but perfect for everywhere else)
- 0-60 in 5.9seconds

Redisle

Saw a documentary about the mostly automated factory setup & about the car in general recently.

It's on youtube here. Very interesting watch.

It's an impressive machine to be fair! The dashboard has one giant touchscreen with very few buttons too. Wonder if those prices include Irish VRT & if they will make any in RHD (unlikely I'd say).

listermint

Matt Simis wrote: »

As much as I hate on EVs, I just cannot hate on this one:



The "cheaper" 60Kw version sounds interesting, about the same price as a well spec'ed decent engine (ie not 520d) 5 series and hits some decent numbers:

- 330km range
- RWD with 302bhp and 407nm torque
- 190kph (ok weak for Autobahn but perfect for everywhere else)
- 0-60 in 5.9seconds

Its beautiful all the same, however i cant help but think the nose section could have been designed slightly better. Im not sure how though but feels slightly Chrysler Neon of old...

ongarite

Its absolutely stunning in the flesh, the above colour doesn't do it any justice.
Saw 3 of them around San Francisco last October and its a real head turner.

They have also really shaken up the car selling experience with retail stores in the high-end malls around the west coast of the US.

Matt Simis

Fine then, the weird though cool (and $$) brown option:

Stallingrad

What an impressive company. The Apple of the motoring world. Great tech, great cars. The sooner they trickledown nearer the mainstream the better.

Pique

Check out the vid of a Tesla S versus an Viper SRT10 in a drag race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCdP6sMN9k

Lutecia

120€ tax per year only, let's trade in these diesels! :pac:

the culture of deference

Redisle wrote: »

Saw a documentary about the mostly automated factory setup & about the car in general recently.

It's on youtube here. Very interesting watch.

It's an impressive machine to be fair! The dashboard has one giant touchscreen with very few buttons too. Wonder if those prices include Irish VRT & if they will make any in RHD (unlikely I'd say).

Great documentary.

They have plans to release a standard 20 grand fully electric car in 2 years that they believe will revolutionise the car markets.