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Tesla Roadster Electric: 0-60 in Four Seconds

Fellow bloggers from our greasemonkey brother site Jalopnik got a first peek tonight at the much-anticipated Tesla Roadster, an electric-powered road rocket that can travel from 0-60 in four seconds with a top speed of 130mph. Singing the body electric is a 182-kilowatt AC-induction motor, a rear-mounted power plant drawing its energy from 6800 lithium ion batteries. Even though that engine's barely audible, it's capable of rotating at an astonishing 13,500rpm before it even gets close to the redline. More »

10:16 PM on Wed Jul 19 2006
By Charlie White
27,227 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm glad to see this car become available if for no other reason it draws attention to evolving electric car technology. It certainly is just a start, but if even half ways successful who knows where it might lead. There more »