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.
@DragonInfraXtremeRGT
No problem.
@NokiaN95D8G i dought u drive more than 220 miles a WEEK, and if u do, you can just charge it when u go to sleep whats the big deal do you stay up overnight every day?
@ImOfNope OOPS i meant to say i ACTUALLY I SAW THIS car AT the AUTO TRADER 2010 CANADIAN International auto show
And you know something? I just realized the value of rich people. The car is now $143,000.00. They sold over a thousand here in the U.S. and the more people who buy this car, then the more Tesla can make and the more the price will start to drop. Go rich people, go!
I first saw this car on a Nova show, with the two ‘car talk’ guys hosting the future of cars and alternative energy to fuel them. It was funny watching these guys, but the car is a great concept. I was walking the back side of the new Trump Tower, in chicago and one snuck up on me. I didn’t hear a thing. The guy apologized and drove off. I immediately recognized the car and must say, it is one quiet car and very cool looking. Now, if they can only come out with a mini cooper that does the same.
Look up the website and it will tell you if they have a show room near you.
then mayb we might have electric communal cars for means of transportation like the ones Japan came out with that i think is an amazing solution to many problems and everyone in the world would have free transportation of course there will be a price to that.
I dont think electric cars are the future.
220 miles and then recharge for 6-8 hours…
When people are ouf of fuel they wanna refuel and get going again to there destination.
No way you can recharge so many batteries in such a short time.
that it THE car not some but ugly box like most electric cars. I REALLY like to have on … or two
ooooooooooh Santa come on i will be a good all year
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Is that how much it costs?
@Omega3chimp
Like x 100000
Thats my car
i agree but Canada has thermal power that can be harvested easier then the sun… but i have to say some places in canada is hard to get sun aswell as some places in the US but that does not mean that people can not start by buying their cars and plugging in to the grid. Im sure in the future we will have cheap energy and all cars will be electric, that is if we get over the damn Oil olygarchy that is running our country
think about it, solar panels only work good in some areas…..places like canada aint good
think about it if you have enough money to buy a tesla you also have enough to buy a 30k solar plant for the roof of your home you will offset your own usage at the same time or even before you even start charging your electric car, people just need to stop thinking in that little box and need to open their eyes to the broader range of possibilities that there is in the world.
Think space shuttle Challenger with a load of Nuke waste!!! That is the primary reason.
Yes.. But the startup cost is out of reach for most people. I saw a show about a guy that used solar, and hydrogen fuel cell to power his house and car. He stores the excess power in the form of Hydrogen in tanks.. and then converts it back when needed. But the system cost $250K to build.
what i dont understand is y they dont throw the waste in space, i mean the space of space is infinite
Solar man! There are people that completely offset the power use of their home and their EV with solar panels.
Doesn’t reallly matter. Even if it was all from coal. It would still be cleaner than the equivalent gasoline.
My concern is if this was the way all 300 million cars worked.. could the current grid even cope with the demand? I have no idea really. It would be off peak charging at night. But nothing is totally free.
Nuclear power would be ideal from a polution, but then you have waste to deal with.
yes all that is true but one thing…….where is the electricity to power the car going to come from in a green way
They wont do it for a long time because the governments reap huge profits from oil, and there are so many jobs in oil too……if they dropped the oil to go electrical everyone would have to go back to Uni to get different qualifications.
Its a nice thought going this efficient but its possibly a long way off
i love tesla forever his origins are romanian remember that then he moved to america
Great technology