http://www.teslamotors.com/

Great looking electric car that gets 220 miles per charge (3.5 hours to fully charge a depleted battery). They may have something here. Looks like a lot of big name people are on board with this thing. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. Prices start at $109,000.

The price is a bit high but that can change as production increases. Are the big automotive companies in trouble with companies like these coming out of the woodwork? Will one of the big automotive companies buy this one for the technology or do they already have the same technology in the waiting room but it's not cost effective for the American public (or themselves) yet?

DUDE...I loved the band Tesla . Seriously...nice looking car and 0 - 60 mph in 3.9 seconds is FAST

I guess the big question is, if you could spend $100k+ for a car, is that the one you would pick?

Fast and not cheap... yet. $109,000 base price Yowsas!!

I'm hijacking my own thread... Doggg - Next Saturday - Winter Park, Colorado!

Now, back to the electric speedster!

It's actually based on a Lotus Elise / Exige chassis, so the handling should be quite good. It bears quite a strong resemblence to the Elise as well. I'm not sure if I'd have one at 100K though.

Yeah, they're in our backyard.

After a few years of delays and re-engineering, they finally hit the market.

As Troop said, if you had 100K for a car, would you buy it? (Nope, not even if I had a 100K to blow on a car).

But then again, I've certainly spent more than 25K on a car, and I will never buy a prius.

Only time will tell...

Unfortunately, electric cars will not be practical until we have ALOT more generating capacity. We have rolling brownouts in much of the country when air conditioning demands are high. Can you imagine what would happen if a few hundred thousand cars were plugged in as well?

And since alot of the country gets it's electricity from coal or diesel fired plants it is not any greener either.

Ding Ding Ding!! Prober, you have a very firm grip on the actuality of the situation. That's why I said in another post, we need to do everything when it comes to energy. Drill for more of our own oil, right now. Build nuclear power plants, right now. Put up many more wind turbines, right now. Go get the coal shale, right now. Unless the world is gonna contract and do less, we'll need more and more energy worldwide. So let's go out and get our own, so we don't have to wait for others to sell it to us.

BTW, Tesla rocks! I like Modern Day Cowboy, personally.

Soooo....

Physics has finally caught up with Tesla?