Tesla Roadster!?
Posted on: May 24, 2009 - 11:46pm
Offline
Tesla Roadster!?
This car is an electric vehicle that, according to the laboratory that tested it, can achieve a top speed of 200 km/hr... and this speed was limited for safety.
WTF???
...I thought it was more or less impossible to move a vehicle beyond more than 60-70ish km/hr without use of hydrocarbons? How can you possibly generate (ad sustain) enough energy from an electric battery to move a vehicle that quickly???
Or is their PR department just bullshitting?
Quote:
"Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?But, again, don't misunderstand me. The only conclusion we can draw is that governments acting in a crisis are guided by questions of expediency, and moral considerations are given very little weight, and that America is no different from any other nation in this respect."
- Leo Szilard
Bookmark/Search this post with:
[nerd lisp]
Well I think that since a lot of eletric work is lost to heat, they must have installed a super duper insulation to re-direct the energy to motor power propelling the vehicle with considerable power
[/nerd lisp]
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.~ Joseph Conrad
http://cptpineapple.blogspot.com/
Didi they mention this speed was limited for safety to 200 km/hr because it required a wind speed of 2000 km/hr to be blowing it forward?
Well I'm not surprised,Nikola Telsa was way before his time (a phrase that is over used) did you also know that he wanted to build a system that would give North America free access for our electrical needs,but the businesses people were concerned with making as much money as possible,so they funded Edison instead.
You can utube it under the hood, and on the track, usi a search criteria of:
Tesla Roadster
BTW. The $130K model may not come with A/C. (It wasn't mentioned.)
I think that you missed another memo Kevin. The engineers decided what they wanted the car to do and then they made that happen. OK, the engineering was probably not quite that simple and perhaps they should win some type of an award. Even so, there are several electric cars out there that perform like gang busters due to them being subject to some dedicated engnieering.
Here is a dragster doing a 7.96:
fast cars and motorcycle videos
And here is an old Datsun that was converted by the owner:
As much as I agree with you that Tesla was a remarkable man, I feel I must point out that the Tesla Roadster has nothing to do with Tesla.
It's just named after him.
Well I was born an original sinner
I was spawned from original sin
And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done
There'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin
Ya... Tesla cars are cool and all... but i preffer their home defence systems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBJsn4pxa4
(fail embed >.< )
edit; strong sense of deja vu about this topic...
Crack the Earth, Gods of Thunder
Man and Beast will be Torn Asunder
Into the Fight, I own the Right
To be the King of Kings
A friend of mine is a huge fan of these cars. From everything I've seen (and trust me, he's sent me a lot of stuff about them) they're pretty much what they claim to be. They're badass automobiles that can theoretically run off the grid if you have enough of your own electricity production. In fact, rumor has it that they're teaming up with a company that makes solar panels in an effort to sell package deals to people who want to buy enough solar potential to have a free (after the solar panels are paid off) energy car.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
That's awesome, Hamby.
Eff you, General Motors! No demand my ass.
I may decide to get my driver's license if this company winds-up marketing their non-luxury models up here (I'm still iffy on trusting myself with a machine capable of that much speed, but not having a tank filled with highly volatile fluid helps matters considerably).
- Leo Szilard
Supercapacitors + solar power will be the way to go imo, I see no other way.
I can't find the video but I remember seeing on discovery channel I think it was, a video of a motorcycle with supercapacitors installed. The battery-capacitor displaced so much juice it blew the motor out a quarter of the way down the track.