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The American company "Tesla motors", San Carlos, California, named after one of the famous scientist Nikola Tesla, has already sold all of the first 650 pieces of the electrical "Tesla Roadster" sports cars, for the price of 90,000$.
This car, inspired by the sports two-seated "Lotus Elise", with only one lithium battery charge, can travel 394 km (220 miles). These rechargeable batteries can last for 160.000 km. The car doesn't produce exhaust gases, and the price of the ride is only 2 cents per 1 km.
This rear-drive roadster has two seats and an open top. It accelerates from 0 to 100km (60 mph) in about 4 seconds.
The company plans to present an electrical family limousine in 2009. and 2010., which will be an alternative to cars such as BMW class 5 or Audi 6, and it will cost between 50.000 and 70.000 $.
For the year 2012., they plan to present the third model, known by the working name "Blue star", and it will cost around 30.000 $.
Sports coupe "Tesla" was on the front page of "Time" magazine in December 2006, as the winner for the best invention in the traffic area, for that year.
This is a really great concept and my hat goes off to this company for producing a car that will ultimately free us from fossil fuel dependency - however, that said it's not going to be much use it no-one can afford to buy it - I mean come on guys $30,000 minimum price?? Who can afford that??
The fact of the matter is that although a $90,000 price tag is a bit much, these cars will be bought by the elite. And like every other new invention or innovation which takes the world by storm, the elite must have access to it first. The trickle-down effect then occurs, and eventually, electric vehicles will be the norm. By the way, a $30,000 price tag on a vehicle is completely normal. Most people in north America are from a middle-class background, making anywhere from 50-100,000 a year family income. A 30,000 vehicle is a reasonable investment.
50k-100k isnt considered middle class anymore, thats upper class, or middle upper if you want to get technically concrete. Most middle class citizens in the great state of california avg about 30k-50k yearly. oh and another thing, that trickle down theory brought to you by the ingenius Ronald Regan never worked, thats like building the top of a house and hope that it will fall to the bottom and the foundation of the house will appear
The yearly family income of 50-100k fits perfectly with your single person of 30-50k (with two working people as in the definition of a family this yields 60-100k a year per family) And yes the trickle down effect is true
although it is nice that it runs on electricity, that electricity will have to come from somewhere, and usually comes from a coal powered power plant, so there would actually be more steps between the fossil fuel in the ground, to actually using it. I think the best way to go would be a solar powered car. That would be true independence from fossil fuels.
And the oil gets from several hundred meters underground, refined and into the petrol station by magic? You need electricity off the grid to pump oil out of the ground to begin with (hence why no oil producing nation has oil powerstations). This just cuts out alot of the middle man and emmisions.
Solar power is inefficient, so it doesn't make sense to power a car. However, to recharge one of the electric cars from electricity generated from solar and wind power? That would work.
Honda's fuel cell vehicle (FCX) is also worth a look.
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