I drove a tesla!

[Doubleclutch]

Very Interesting. A friend just got it and we went for a ride. The door handles are flush with the body and there's no recess to pull the handle bar. When unlocked, the handle extends to you about a inch to give you access.

No sound at idle standstill--just music and A/C. Off we go, he's driving, utter quiet, hit a light and the car slows with some drag of the wheel motors running backwards to rub off some energy back into the battery. This is controled from the dash array. You can slow by freewheel or recharge at your option.

There's a huge display of touch controls and readouts or you can go to Google GPS on the top 8 by 10 display. Then there's a bottom display of another big maybe 8 by 10 rear camera since the rear mirror is limited with a very small rear window.

Then I get to drive. I push it at 20 MPH and were're at 65 like that. I looked it up today 5.4 to 60 and 13.7 in the quarter. Power is seamless, so smooth, amazing! And this was the sedan not the performance coupe.

It will run 300 miles on a full battery and a partial recharge for 150 miles in 45 minutes. Fuel cost is like 1/4 of gas.

Very impressive car.

 

[tallhair]

Very Interesting. A friend just got it and we went for a ride. The door handles are flush with the body and there's do recess to pull the handle bar. When unlocked, the handle extends to you about a inch to give you access.

No sound at idle standstill--just music and A/C. Off we go, he's driving, utter quiet hit a light and the car slows with some drag of the wheel motors running backwards to rub off some energy back into the battery. This is controlable from the dash array. You can slow by freewheel or recharge at your option.

There's a huge display of touch controls and readouts or you can go to Google GPS on the top 8 by 10 display. Then there's a bottom display of a big maybe 8 by 10 rear camera since the rear miror is limited with a very small rear window.

Then I get to drive. I push it at 20 MPH and were're at 65 like that. I looked it up today 5.4 to 60 and 13.7 in the quarter. Power is seamless, so smooth, amazing! And this was the sedan not the performance coupe.

It will run 300 miles on battery and a partial recharge for 150 miles in 45 minutes. Fuel cost is like 1/4 of gas.

Very impressive car.

How do we hotrod it?

 

[Doubleclutch]

Buy the bigger battery. 60 in 4.6 and the quarter in 12.7. (I'm not sure if this is the sedan more likely the performance coupe.

 

[Richard Cranium]

How many millions is it?

 

[RustyRatRod]

That's cool. That's called dynamic braking with the brakes. Railroad locomotives have used it ever since the inception of diesel electric locomotives. I've always wondered why it was not used on electric cars. Now it is. That's really cool.

 

[YY1]

Or take some windings off the motors, like a slot car!

 

[pushrod]

Does Comp make a cam for it? How much is the Indy intake for a Tesla?Just kidding, that is way cool.

 

[daredevil]

How do we hotrod it?

Why bigger flux capacitor of course.

 

[FatJack]

Now just a set of headers and dual exhaust...

 

[Moparsmitty]

How many millions is it?

52,400 Base model, 87,400 High performance version, Price after tax credits.
I like the concept and the technology of the Tesla and I hope that they are successful but I don't think that we will see a lot of these on the road until the initial purchase price and service costs come down. Other brands may jump into this type of electric car and eventually bring the costs down. It sure beats the hell out of a Prius and is a lot less embarrassing.

 

[tpodwdog]

Tesla sells a CD of various "vroom vroom" sounds. you just pop it in the CD player and turn up the radio. easiest exhaust youll ever install.!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Why bigger flux capacitor of course.

Dilithiam crystals work better.

 

[99ss]

Read up on the Tesla brick..LOL

 

[arsinist01]

Every time someone tells me how much gas an electric or hybrid car saves, my question is... how much does the battery pack cost to replace?

 

[satman72]

Every time someone tells me how much gas an electric or hybrid car saves, my question is... how much does the battery pack cost to replace?

I'm not sure it really saves anything. What it does is put another option to consumers. I think that the manufacturers need to make a small, low cost car for people to commute. Whether it's gas, diesel, electric, whatever. It needs to be cheap, reliable, convenient... I think we have them in gas/diesel versions already. We need them now in electric/hybrid versions.

 

[Budnicks]

Tesla sells a CD of various "vroom vroom" sounds. you just pop it in the CD player and turn up the radio. easiest exhaust youll ever install.!

My old HS friends, yonger brother is, Brian Keith the lead singer of the originally Georgetown Ca./Sacramento Ca. based band "City Kid", that later became Tesla....LOL...

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Dilithiam crystals work better.

yep X2, beam me up Scotty

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Why bigger flux capacitor of course.

is the guys friend named Marty too....LOL...

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Battery packs will be very costly, I read somewhere, I don't remember where now, it was that the batteries for the GM Volt were like $12K plus, $90/hr dealership labor costs, to tear almost the whole car apart, just to install them, if they weren't under warrenty... I don't have a clue if that's accurate or not, just hear say from a tech. buddy at the dealerships or what the costs of the Tesla batteries would be either, probably much more... I saw a special on Hot Rod TV, Rides or on one of the many Sunday TV Car shows, a few years ago now, about the Tesla's, where they were building them in Santa Rosa or somewhere here in NorCal {if I remember correctly}, the batteries were what was driving the exorbitant cost, of the Tesla brand, really expensive technology & hand built... The little 2 seater coupe versions that shares the Lotus Elise Bodies styles are really cool looken', supposedly handle really well too, the sedans naaaaaa not so much good looken'.... If they fit your needs, budget & like you them, buy them... Living in the mountains or out of the flat lands or inner-cities, they aren't going to be too practical thou... my $0.02 cents