By Mike

May 7, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

An interesting concept. It is obvious that their initial thrust is toward the high end buyers, like the Leno’s and the Clooney’s. But when you look at their website and see the performance they are designing into this you wonder why such super high performance is really necessary? With those performance numbers it is no wonder that the it’s over $100K. How much cheaper would it be to design a car more in line with the performance numbers of the 4 cylinder, high performance gasoline engine they use for the graphic comparison? You know, a car that performs like the ones that 99.98% of us regular people drive and find acceptable. I don’t know about you, but I don’t need 0-60 in four seconds. I also really don’t need all that torque and power at 8000 RPM. All that being said, it’s still a good start on the technology and research necessary to start weaning us off the oil teat. Spending money on this type of technology is the type of investment that will could eventually give a hundred fold return. All in all, the Tesla is a good thing. It certainly is much more promising than drilling in ANWR, which will really do nothing more than profit the oil companies without any significant impact on supplies or price.