2008 Tesla Roadster: This Electric Sports Car Is the Real Thing

www.edmunds.com He was tall, looked fit in his spandex bicycling gear and — the reason we were a bit nervous — he was glaring at the little silver roadster with distaste. Had we inadvertently forced him off the road on one of our passes while photographing the electric-powered 2008 Tesla Roadster? No. His problem, it turns out, is that the car is “too quiet.” The Tesla, clean and silent but for the hiss of tires on asphalt and the whine of the electric motor’s cooling fan, disturbed him …

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December 1st, 2009  in Alternative Fuel Cars 25 Comments »

25 Responses to “2008 Tesla Roadster: This Electric Sports Car Is the Real Thing”

  • sampras1979 says:

    Looks terrible… like some japanese “sportcars” with 4-cylinder or so. sound it bad, transmission, gearbox, well , everything if your an carentushiast like me, this car is not made for us! I fear the day when the electic-cars take over.. we will fight them whit everything we got… damn,, I have to speed up my savings.. got to have my dreamcar (911) before it´s to late.. and then I´ll buy all the petrol I need for the future!!!

  • iPOWERx09 says:

    Yes and no for me. I think they need to develop electric cars a bit more before they start selling them to us. Charges don’t last long enough, torque is painfully sluggish and gets worse as you go…But I am all for the zero emissions and what have you!

  • robotmonkey73 says:

    it isn’t a sports car if youre not burning some dinos

  • robrandt says:

    haha…..true

  • MrCarowner says:

    Thieves can easily break into Lexus ! ! !.

    Check it out at YouTube “5 seconds break into 2009 Lexus ES350 part 1 ” .
    &
    YouTube “5 seconds break into 2009 Lexus ES350 part 2 ”
    You will be SURPRISED!!
    Like what you saw, Lexus ” ALARM” was so
    stupid when the thief broke into…….
    What a Lexus!!
    What a piece of JUNK! Hahaha ! ! !

  • vipserson says:

    and when fuel is $100/gal you can burn all the dinos you want

  • Pesles says:

    That is a piece of beautiful forbiden technology !

  • shupysko says:

    .. Sometimes born a genious betwen us…
    that video is only a spark of the holylighting from the wizzard called Nikola Tesla, a serbian child that discovered the truth about energy, before everyone.. and experienced and surfered the same and often repression which all who want show up the Truth, got and will.
    Thank you Nikola, for try change to better our world!

  • KingOfTheNubies says:

    Give it time.
    I remember 10 years ago when a good PC cost 2000+ bucks.
    Now you can get machine for 700 dollars that’s
    5x more powerful.Look at the cell phones 10 years ago and the models you have today that they give away.
    The Genie’s out of the bottle,now its just a matter of time.

  • grozmo1 says:

    I was in one of these yesterday. Damn awesome – the engine sounds cool / futuristic and the acceleration is unbelievable!!

    Just have to wait for the right-hand drive model ;)

  • 3rdMilleniumSciaman says:

    Nikola Tesla!!!!
    The One

  • brian8793 says:

    Yaye, a 100,000 dollar toy car that seats TWO.

    NOT IMPRESSED

  • brian8793 says:

    You should buy an education dummy:)

  • epif says:

    Wow dude, you’re an idiot and an asshole. This is Tesla’s first car. I’m sure they’ll make plenty of improvements on future models, resulting in faster, cheaper cars with a longer range.

    I mean, come on, 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds with the Tesla Roadster Sport? That’s ridiculously fast. Sure it costs $120,000 but the Tesla line is one of the first performance electric cars ever made.

  • brian8793 says:

    Great. Big WHOOP.

  • ilovetopgearandcars says:

    I’m with you. Please watch the video response! Tell me what you think

  • throttlelever says:

    I saw vids of performance tests against Ferraris and Porsches. Tesla beat them all.

  • journeyquest1 says:

    go testcle go

  • chayaus says:

    The Roadster is sweet.

    The big problems being the obvious limited range of the vehicle, and the fact that it charges off mains power, which being coal generated eats into a lot of the benefits of a non petrol engine.

    Still….it’s a step towards shaking western oil dependency.

    Thanks for the upload :)

  • desky2009 says:

    Every day you pay the oil price the arabs want, you polute the environment, pay more for products and services, and make them strong to keep fighting against democracy and freedom.

  • silverbird58 says:

    you know of the main ingediant in 5 gal
    of kool-aid ,and 5gal of supershell?

    h20

  • valvetrom says:

    when winning lotto.
    this is slick,beautiful and effective.

  • countdumas says:

    Listen to Michael Tsarion on the youtube. he is the worlds premier conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami and Dr. Bill Deagle are highly informative as well.

  • nutzw1 says:

    well fuck you then!@@

  • quantomic1106 says:

    its the aliens! whooo…

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