The Tesla Roadster: Is it the Worlds First Serious Electric Car?

The Tesla Roadster electric car has now gone into full public production, and with a chassis based on the acclaimed Lotus Elise and performance to match, this could be the first all electric car you would actually want to own. It also seems that with perfect timing Tesla has launched its new products into a world where, with uncertain petrol supplies and global warming, the electric car has suddenly become more appealing.

There have been a number of attempts in the past to produce a viable electric car, however the technology and public demand meant that these versions were never a great success. The biggest drawback was due to poor battery technology, which meant that such cars were lacking considerably in performance to keep up with modern traffic, and had a woefully poor range to match.

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New Lotus Evora High Performance Car

On official presentation of model Lotus Evora which has taken place on the British motor show in London, the company management declared, that in the future in the market there will be some various versions a sport penalty. Today it became known, that novelty Lotus, except a coupe, will be issued also in a body “cabriolet”. Motor-car manufacturers count, that the open version of model which will appear in the world market in the end of 2011, will help to increase sales of the car to 2 thousand copies a year. In two years admirers of model can take pleasure in stronger version Lotus Evora, informs edition TopSpeed. British company is going to disperse the engine of the car with 280 to 320 h.p. Probably, on the market there is also version Lotus Evora S with which will equip with the 400-strong unit. With the similar motor of sport penalties, by some calculations, it will be accelerated to first “hundred” less than for 4 seconds and can make a competition to such models, as Porsche.

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