Battery-Fueled Car Will Smoke You
Joshua Davis at Wired - Martin Eberhard has created the Tesla Roadster, a no-excuses electric sports car that does zero to sixty in under four seconds. Wouldn't want to pay for regularly replacing its battery pack, however. [slashdot]
He releases the brake and my head snaps back. One-one-thousand: I get a floating feeling, like going over the falls in a roller coaster. Two-one-thousand: The world tunnels, the trees blur. Three-one-thousand: We hit 60 miles per hour. Eberhard brakes. We're at a standstill again -- elapsed time, nine seconds. When potential buyers get a look at the vehicle this summer, it will be among the quickest production cars in the world. And, compared to other supercars like the Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari Enzo, and Lamborghini Diablo, it's a bargain. More intriguing: It has no combustion engine.
The trick? The Tesla Roadster is powered by 6,831 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries -- the same cells that run a laptop computer. Range: 250 miles. Fuel efficiency: 1 to 2 cents per mile. Top speed: more than 130 mph. The first cars will be built at a factory in England and are slated to hit the market next summer. And Tesla Motors, Eberhard's company, is already gearing up for a four-door battery-powered sedan.
From Slashdot discussion:
Re:Global "Dependencies" (Score:5, Insightful)
by rainman_bc (735332) on Wednesday July 19, @09:49PM (#15747391)
(http://costas.dyndns.ws/)I consider our reliance on oil much more "evil" than our reliance on electronics. PDA's aren't killing the earth quite as fast as cars are ^_^
Until something replaces Coal power plants as the main method of generating electricity, you're just replacing one evil for the other.
Yes, I'm aware of Nucular, Hydro, Wind, Tidal, Natrual Gas. Doesn't matter. Coal is the most popular choice today.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]* Re:Global "Dependencies" by bman08 (Score:3) Wednesday July 19, @09:57PM
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Re:Global "Dependencies" (Score:5, Funny)
by kypper (446750) on Wednesday July 19, @10:29PM (#15747552)
(http://slashdot.org/)Nucular
George? Is that you?
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