Tesla Roadster: The Electric Sports Car Is Now Available!

Tesla’s first store (dealership) will be opening this week and selling the new electric powered sports car for around $109,000. The first Tesla store is located in Los Angeles, California near the University of California which is basically at the intersecting point of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and Brentwood. Being in a prominent location, the Tesla store is in a good position to spark decent sales figures from those who can actually “afford” the new roadster. With a price tag of just over $100K you can own pretty much the cleanest vehicle on the road.

I know what you are thinking, who wants to spend that kind of cash for an electric car, why not suck it up and pay $4.00 a gallon. You may also be thinking that this “sports car” is a “slow car”. Not so and not so. The Tesla electric sports car will do 0-60 in just under 4 seconds and tops 125 mph. Yes, that can beat your car, at least until you hit 125mph… but who wants to go faster than that on USA roads? Okay, maybe you do want to go faster BUT, it’s one of the first electric cars available at an actual dealership and you will be doing more than your part in saving our mother earth.

The Tesla sports car has a 6,831-cell lithium-ion battery park which is the heart of powering this vehicle’s electric motors. You can take a trip of about 225 miles on one single charge. It takes about 3 and a half hours to perform a full re-charge. So pretty much the bottom line is you can drive this baby to work and back home and maybe to the grocery store all in one day and charge it when you get home. Of course long trips may involve some preemptive planning on your part. The Tesla roadster weighs in at 2700 pounds which is pretty light-weight when compared to other hogs on the road that cost about $80 to fill up with gas.

The durability has yet to be proven. People have safety concerns because of the type of battery that is used. We all can recollect laptops catching fire from faulty batteries and now the same type of technology is used in a car. Now we all know that gasoline is very volatile and can be very dangerous. We have to ask the wise people if a laptop with gasoline would be safer than one using a standard lithium-ion battery. Well then, same thing with a car right?

Tesla has sold all of the 2008 models, about 600 of them, and they will all be delivered to their owners by March of next year. The 2009 model production is expected to increase to about 1500 cars which should be spoken for once they start taking orders. In the near future Tesla plans to expand and produce cheaper family vehicles. Will this be the beginning to a revolution, or a big fight between makers of electric cars and the big oil companies (government).

Tesla Motors Website: http://www.teslamotors.com/

Tags: Electric Car, Electric Sports Car, Tesla Motors, Tesla Roadster

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