A very, very cool electric car!

[Damocles]

http://autos.msn.com/as/minishow/article.aspx?contentID=4024172&s=Pebble2006

There are a number of sports cars on the market that can reach 60 mph in around 4 seconds—Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Vipers, Corvettes—and all of these cars make this acceleration run with great fanfare. With their powerful V8s, V10s and V12s, roaring sounds come from the engine as the gas pedal goes down, and the waste from burning fuel is expelled out as exhaust.

Imagine a car that can provide that same acceleration and performance, yet there's no powerful rumble from under the hood, no burning fuel and therefore no exhaust. This car is real and it's called the Tesla Roadster.

More at the link...

 

[Thorn]

Cool! I can see that once these go into production, engineering improvements will occur almost logarithmically as problems will be identified and presumably solved relatively quickly. When R & D becomes a less prominent aspect of production, the costs should plummet dramatically. Similarly, improvements in engineering and performance will take off as more people become involved.

The article didn't estimate the cost of the electrical charge, but the advantages over petroleum should make that insignificant. Is this the ultimate solution? Who knows? It's a great start.