Big toys 4 Big boys?
July 21st 2008 03:02
From: The New York Times:
After raising $150 million and going through four years of technological and internal struggles, the company.....(Tesla motors).... has begun manufacturing the first-ever all-electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster. Its base price is $109,000. And if Mr. Musk is willing to concede that the Roadster, by itself, isn’t a world-changer, he fervently believes that the technology Tesla has created — technology that gives the car a range of 227 miles per battery charge, and enough acceleration to go from zero to 60 in under 4 seconds — will indeed change the world. The age of the electric car, he is convinced, has dawned.
The Tesla Roadster is a gorgeous sports car. That’s not a surprise: one of Tesla’s goals was to prove that an electric car didn’t have to look stodgy — or resemble something out of “The Jetsons.” Tesla’s other goal, though, was to show that an electric vehicle could provide a driving experience that was a good or better than any finely tuned sports car.
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