100% Electric Tesla Roadster

[McMessy]

http://www.teslamotors.com
Finally, an electric car that looks great and has the performance to match!

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The Vitals:
-Cost: approx $100,000 USD
- 2-seat, open-top, rear-drive roadster
- 185kw/248hp, 13,500 rpm redline 3 phase electric motor with regenerative engine braking (charges the battery during braking)
- 2-speed electric-shift manual transmission with integral differential
- lithium ion battery
- aluminium chassis

-0-100 in around 4 seconds
-210km/h top speed
-400km on a full charge (highway)
-charge time - 3.5 hours for an empty/dead battery, using a high current custom built home based power outlet, overnight charge from dead with a standard (US) plug/socket.
-battery expected to last 160,000km

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The motor

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[low astra]

that looks good, i wonder how quiet they are to drive?

[oneightoo]

id say very quiet..

now if they could recharge the battery more than it uses, the inventor could own the world..

[low astra]

hell yes, that charge time is ****, imagine taking that long to fuel up your car, everyday life would take quite some planking and driving holidays would become a nightmare

[oneightoo]

perpetual energy.. hmmm.. maybe one day..

[blueraven]

it would be fine, how many of us drive more than 400 km a day?? 300?? 200??

no problem, just plug in every night and your fine. taht car will have a slight recharge when braking, almost every elctric car has this setup. throw a decent moulded solar panel on the rear and it might get you 50km more per charge.

hell my astra only gets 450-500km a tank so its not that different..

(pretty sure the car was on beyond tomorrow about 6 months ago :D the guy said it was deathly quiet, super fast and there are no brakes except for the hand brake :))

[low astra]

it would be fine, how many of us drive more than 400 km a day?? 300?? 200??
hell my astra only gets 450-500km a tank so its not that different..


when i drive home i do 1000km in 1 day, well closer to 10hrs, drive brisbane to mackay, or sydney for a long weekend and your trip would have like a extra 7 -8 hours longer and thats if u can find the quick charge,

refill a astra takes what 5 - 10 min?

[digifish]

The motor

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...it makes the internal combustion engine just look wrong somehow :)

[Dave]

sound like a boreing automatic, no gears...........if it had gears id be great, and 450k to a tank it plenty for potering around town a lap to the coast etc..........i agree though on long trips it would be a pain in the arse. that and the auto trans and the charg time are the only down sides i can see, other then that im all for it :)

But watch once people start switching to things like that the electricity prices will sky rocket :boohoo:

[dustbug]

Well its great that we have electric engines, but if we are still generating electricity through coal stations, approximately the same amout of bad fumes are produced. Just with electricity, the fumes are produced in production, i.e. power stations, and petrol when we drive our cars.

So really no benefit. Unless we use Nuclear Power...........

Whats everyones say?

Ooooo did anyone watch an episode from around 1 year ago on "Inventors" on ABC where this guy at the Syd/Melb fish markets was running like a little golf buggy, but for running around fish on compressed air. A bottle would last 2 hours but he was trying to make the cycliner more efficient and when he could get to a certain efficiency, he can put numerious cyliners in it.

Pretty cool - but then we would need more trees. hahaha nothing works

[blueraven]

A boring automatic that does 0-100 in 4 seconds and has maximum torque at 0rpm :D:D

i take a boring auto like that ANY day :)

[PaulyJ]

A boring automatic that does 0-100 in 4 seconds and has maximum torque at 0rpm :D:D

i take a boring auto like that ANY day :)

yeh thats so true!
best of all.. no lag!!! haha

[Clint]

Pretty cool - but then we would need more trees. hahaha nothing works

not quite so, it doesnt use any of the oxygen in the air, it just uses the pressure and volume of the air, so after its used is returned to the atmostphere again as it was before

[180HOA]

Well its great that we have electric engines, but if we are still generating electricity through coal stations, approximately the same amout of bad fumes are produced. Just with electricity, the fumes are produced in production, i.e. power stations, and petrol when we drive our cars.

So really no benefit. Unless we use Nuclear Power...........

Agreed that the source of the electricity is a problem, but nuclear is not the solution (I'm sure we all know the safety/environmental issues with nuclear). Besides, nuclear power relies on fossil fuel anyway, so why bother when we're just going to end up in another energy 'crisis' when we start to use up all the Uranium... Why just sidestep from dependence on oil and coal to dependance on uranium?

How about a sustainable, permanent solution (yes Johnny H, that question is directed at you...)?

If you can recharge your electric car with electricity generated through hydro/wind/wave/solar energy, you're probably going to be about as close as you can get to a zero emissions car.

I read somewhere that more solar energy strikes the earth in one 24 hour period than the total energy that ever has been, or ever will be, generated by fossil fuels. Humans just need to pull our fingers out and focus on the technology to harness renewable energy sources more effectively than we are able to right now. And stop fussing because we don't think wind farms are pretty...

[JasonGilholme]

HAHAh Just put massive solar panels and wind farms out in the middle of the ocean where the winds are massive!.

Most of the world is covered by water anyway!

[ultim8DTM5]

I don't think it would weight much either.

[Wraith]

I remember seeing this thing on a show a few months back - can't remember what it was.....

Looks good and has great performance - max torque right from zero rpm and it's very quiet - you could sneak up on people :D