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May 3, 2008 · 15 Comments

0-60 in 4 seconds. Can pull any woman who is into cheap hotels and rich actors, and Arnie Terminator is getting one - sound good?

Thought so!

Men = things that go BEEP = excitement!

So what am I waffling on about?

This!

The car goes from 0 to 60 mph in just under four seconds and tops out at 125 mph. It goes 225 miles on one charge and can be fully recharged in 3½ hours, which Tesla officials say should allow most people to drive it to work and back and recharge it at night like a cell phone.

I wanna be rich so I can have one!

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15 responses so far ↓

  • thebeadden // May 3, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Tesla was a brilliant man. He had hundreds of patents. It’s nice to see they have done something like this in his name.

    Very cool car.

  • brooke young // May 4, 2008 at 12:48 am

    The question is……..how many people are goin to buy it with their stimulus checks they get!?!?! lol

  • Andrew // May 4, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Once the price is down to $10K, I’ll be able to get one. Most cars, especially new ones, that come out first are always at the high price mark. But give it awhile, and it will widdle down in price.

  • EvilSandwich // May 4, 2008 at 2:33 am

    I will never in a million years be able to afford this car. However, the Tesla Whitestar looks promising.

    I really hope Tesla Motors has a bright future ahead of them.

  • James // May 4, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Its a start!!!!!

  • Brian // May 4, 2008 at 8:42 am

    After 20 years in the battery industry and with there being 6,831 cells in each car; I would tend to believe there will be a problem of an occasional bad cell in the cars, which could lead to some dangerous situations. There’s one company A-123 systems that has the patent on a safe lithium ion cell, I’d feel more confident if I knew their cells were in the cars.

  • Joe // May 4, 2008 at 10:06 am

    I love it. Anything with a hint of “green” will sell to shortsighted people claiming to be earth friendly. And how do they claim they will get rid of those 1000lb lithium batteries? Coming to a landfill near you….hmm can’t wait….lithium in my water supply for thousands of years.

  • karl // May 4, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    In answer to Joe’s concern of how they claim to get rid of those 1000lb lithium batteries.

    “Recycling
    Keeping an Eye on Tomorrow, Today
    It probably comes as no surprise that a forward-thinking company like Tesla Motors thinks a lot about the future. We do.

    That‘s why the tires and the battery of every Tesla Motors vehicle are recyclable. Reuse is such a key part of our philosophy that we‘ve already arranged to have our car batteries safely recycled — even before we‘ve sold our first car. The cost of recycling is built into the purchase price of the car, so there‘s never a reason “why not” to recycle. ” –teslamotors.com

    That’s how they claim to get rid of those 1000lb lithium batteries.

  • Mitch Hedberg // May 5, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    DUCKS EAT FOR FREE AT SUBWAY!!!!!

  • Love it // May 5, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    I would buy one today if it was 1/3 the price.. don’t need the 0-60 in < 4. How much does it cost to fully recharge on an avg household electric bill I wonder? 225mi, cost per mile equations?

  • Will Rhodes // May 5, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    I’m not the mathematician, but I would like to know that too.

  • Chris // May 6, 2008 at 6:48 am

    Very nice car, yes. But at $109,000 the only people who can afford one will be the rich and the actors who can sport the money.

    Let’s see, Honda civic=~$15,000 so that leaves $94,000 for insurance and repairs plus fossil fuels so averaging $4,000 per year on service and insurance and $6,000 on fuel per month should last me for 9 + years or so. And how much do those lithium ion batteries cost ($7000?) and they only last 100,000 km nope it’s not worth it for the average citizen.

    Since the world is money driven, I can’t imagine buying one anytime soon. Too costly. Should one day the world become too expensive to drive a combustion vehicle then I’d probably just ride my bike.

    Don’t get me wrong the tesla’s a very cool car and I’d love to own one but today it doesn’t make sense for me to buy one.

  • Chris // May 6, 2008 at 6:52 am

    That’s $6000 on fuel per year by the way or $500 per month.

  • Will Rhodes // May 6, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Thanks for that, Chris.

  • Brett // May 8, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    mmmmm…. want to touch it…

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