I drove 0 to 60 in 3.7 sec in a electric car

[SwambA]

My lovely wife and I got to test drive this car in Miami over the weekend! 0 to 60 in 3.7 sec !!! WOW what a rush!!!!! And I did 0 to 60 in 3.7 sec many times The tesla roadster is a all electric car. No gears to shift and virtually no noise, it was like gliding on air over the road.

 

[timislegend]

yeah.. i test drove this about 6 months ago. they are located about 10 miles from my house. sweet ride, way tooo expensive!

 

[Clockwork]

How long does it take to fully charge though? Cause if I have to wait twelve hours everytime I need to drive 250 miles thats super weak. Well, not that I will ever be able to afford one...

 

[arv_foh]

How long does it take to fully charge though? Cause if I have to wait twelve hours everytime I need to drive 250 miles thats super weak. Well, not that I will ever be able to afford one...

3.5hrs

pnut from 311 has a tesla, they look so badass, I'd love to drive one... instant torque

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

It's completely ridiculous that we don't have electric cars everywhere. Too many republican votes holding us back.

 

[kev]

They are coming along great, I cant wait to have one one day. The on going snag is of course the inability to do long journeys. How are the H20 cars going? A bit behind the electric ones?

 

[Rhys Llewellyn]

I hear they're intending to install some kind of sound devices on those things so pedestrians can hear them coming around corners.

It must be kinda surreal to have zero noise and such insane acceleration.

People tend to conveniently forget or ignorantly aren't aware where the majority of electricity comes from in the first place, the burning of fossil fuels! It's a false economy and wrong to suggest these cars are clean so I wouldn't even consider one. Plus, as stated, the very idea of having to charge your car up before it works really sucks.

Hydrogen cells are the way forward.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

I hear they're intending to install some kind of sound devices on those things so pedestrians can hear them coming around corners.

It must be kinda surreal to have zero noise and such insane acceleration.

People tend to conveniently forget or ignorantly aren't aware where the majority of electricity comes from in the first place, the burning of fossil fuels! It's a false economy and wrong to suggest these cars are clean so I wouldn't even consider one. Plus, as stated, the very idea of having to charge your car up before it works really sucks.

Hydrogen cells are the way forward.

I don't understand we put so much energy (no pun intended) in electric cars when a car designed to run on pure Oxyhydrogen would be a much better solution. With that, you would be able to go to a gas station and fill up with electrolyte saturated distilled water, and have a near instant refill compared to electric cars.

 

[Ambivalent]

I hear they're intending to install some kind of sound devices on those things so pedestrians can hear them coming around corners.

It must be kinda surreal to have zero noise and such insane acceleration.

People tend to conveniently forget or ignorantly aren't aware where the majority of electricity comes from in the first place, the burning of fossil fuels! It's a false economy and wrong to suggest these cars are clean so I wouldn't even consider one. Plus, as stated, the very idea of having to charge your car up before it works really sucks.

Hydrogen cells are the way forward.

I understand what you're saying, but I'd still rather let the car charge while I'm asleep than pay 50 dollars at the pump. Then again, I'm comparing the charging price/time of a small electric car to my mid-sized SUV.

But even though it is still consuming fossil fuels through charging (there's a large chance that if you're charging your car, it's on energy from burning coal) I don't see how it could measure up to the consumption fuels by a typical gas run car.

Anyways, the overall benefits of electric cars are still offset by their price. We've got a long way to go, but it's getting there.

 

[El_Gato]

It's completely ridiculous that we don't have electric cars everywhere. Too many republican votes holding us back.

Agree,

but even if everybody had one right now, we'd still be transferring pollution from one side to another. It would make sense if Renewable Energies were developed along with this.

 

[El_Gato]

I don't understand we put so much energy (no pun intended) in electric cars when a car designed to run on pure Oxyhydrogen would be a much better solution. With that, you would be able to go to a gas station and fill up with electrolyte saturated distilled water, and have a near instant refill compared to electric cars.

+1

 

[slashvanyoung]

Once e-cars will be widely available for less-rich folks, it will be "amp sims vs. real amps" all over again.

 

[Rhys Llewellyn]

I understand what you're saying, but I'd still rather let the car charge while I'm asleep than pay 50 dollars at the pump. Then again, I'm comparing the charging price/time of a small electric car to my mid-sized SUV.

But even though it is still consuming fossil fuels through charging (there's a large chance that if you're charging your car, it's on energy from burning coal) I don't see how it could measure up to the consumption fuels by a typical gas run car.

Anyways, the overall benefits of electric cars are still offset by their price. We've got a long way to go, but it's getting there.

Yeah, some fair points there.

In terms of cost, it's clearly a bonus. In terms of convenience, that's where you pay extra.

As far as the pollution involved, or the "carbon footprint", I will go out on a limb here without any research and say that they're probably pretty close.

An old, rusted out car will probably use more fuel, but not a new petrol/diesel car. It surely has to remain somewhat relative. To move things takes energy. Whether it be from the power plant in the first place, or combustion in a modern engine, what it really comes down to is mass, and I'm sure those huge batteries aren't light.

 

[slashvanyoung]

It'll be interesting to see if Musk will hold on to a company for once. I wouldn't be surprised if he sells Tesla once they really brake and moves on to his other projects. Like he did with his past .com-projects.

Kudos to that guy for turning very high-risk future-technology companies into solid investments. Tesla used to own less than $10 million in cash about two years ago and since then Musk got to snag the largest car factory in the world from Toyota. For a laughable price...

Even his space transport company is on track to become a success. They launched the first privately financed rocket to reach orbit and they successfully returned a capsule. Their "Falcon" rocket is expected to deliver cargo and even passengers to the ISS as early as this year. Once that happens, investors will cue outside his office...

 

[Terminus]

It's completely ridiculous that we don't have electric cars everywhere.

+1 I wouldnt mind an all-electric Mini Cooper.

 

[midget donkeys]

I am very interested in electric and hybrid electric cars. The tesla roadster is really cool but not remotely economic. The real barrier with mass produced electric cars is the battery. They are expensive to create and in the past have worn out very quickly.

The most realistic electric car for mass production is the Chevy Volt in my opinion. Chevy found that if you only charge a battery to around 80 percent of its full capacity and never allow it to go below around 40 percent empty that the life of the battery is dramatically increased.

The cost of the Volt is still far too high. It is about 10,000 to 15,000 dollars higher than the original target price. And that is with Chevy making virtually zero profit per car and a government tax credit to consumers. I hope over time better production methods allow for cheaper electric cars and batteries to reach the market.

With the current price of gas I have calculated that the pay back period would be about 10 years on a Chevy volt. That is the time it would take for the savings in gasoline to equal the extra amount you pay for the car. The estimated life span of one the the Volt's batteries is around 10 years. The cost of replacing the battery will be very large. This is why I am not running out to buy one the first Volts in production. It simply does not make economic sense at the moment.

From a technical stand point I find the whole idea really cool. So much energy is wasted with a combustion engine. Then whole other systems like radiators are required to dispose of this heat. An electric car makes for such simpler design from a thermodynamic standpoint.