Tesla Roadster: Tesla unveils 'fastest production car ever'
Discussion
Blaster72 said:
It looks quite good, I'm still waiting for a motorcyclist to come along and tell us his superbike has the same performance for a 20th of the price.
True but who wants to smoke rollies, spend their life climbing in and out of a gimp suit and marry a fat bird who looks like Rose West? It's better to pay 20 times more and get the car really. 
Re the batteries, I think they have increased the density of them a lot in recent years by switching from small metal cells to plastic pouches but that's still a lot of weight. The huge headline range is really a function of needing that many batteries in order to deliver the performance for a usable period of time.
The question I have for EVs is as batteries advance and you wish to fit the newer batteries into existing cars how does this impact on the weight distribution? Not so important for commuter barges but mist be slightly relevant for the sports cars. For example, if you fitted modern battery cells to an original Tesla do you not risk changing the weight distribution completely?
robemcdonald said:
Fantastic thing for sure, but will it ever get made? Or imported to the UK? In RHD?
I have been eyeing up a model 3 as my next car, but no longer have confidence it will be available in here by 2020 let alone the 2018 originally promised.
All these new launches are impressive, but surely TESLA would be better resolving one problem at the time and not making more.
I genuinely would like to be proved wrong.
It's how showmen work. The purpose of this product is mainly to get everyone in the audience to look somewhere else. Tesla also completely understand the importance of halo products for imprinting the brand. Without that the investor appetite begins to wane and if the share price slips too far to the point that it changes sentiment then it's all over for the company in a matter of days before they've secured the real revenues from the sale of the 3. It's a very smart company who understand how the game is played and why to date investors have been willing to invest so heavily. I have been eyeing up a model 3 as my next car, but no longer have confidence it will be available in here by 2020 let alone the 2018 originally promised.
All these new launches are impressive, but surely TESLA would be better resolving one problem at the time and not making more.
I genuinely would like to be proved wrong.
98elise said:
600 mile range
0-60 in 1.9 seconds
10000 nm torque (f
king hell!!!!)
The truck presentation was pretty good 0-60 in 5 seconds and I'm pretty sure he said it will do 1m miles without breaking down.
The truck will do 0-60 in 20 secs fully loaded, which is pretty impressive, and the battery pack alone will cost $200k compared to $120k for a complete diesel truck in the States.0-60 in 1.9 seconds
10000 nm torque (f
king hell!!!!)The truck presentation was pretty good 0-60 in 5 seconds and I'm pretty sure he said it will do 1m miles without breaking down.
According to the BBC website.
The Vambo said:
This will be useless as I commute from Glasgow to Mogadishu twice a week nonstop and live on a Lighthouse with no charging charging point.
Yep this will be the response 
. Also a thousand replies to come about "soul" and "engagement". Yeah those things are nice but when your ICE is twice the price and gets utterly destroyed, its a tough pill for people to swallow.Monkeylegend said:
The truck will do 0-60 in 20 secs fully loaded, which is pretty impressive, and the battery pack alone will cost $200k compared to $120k for a complete diesel truck in the States.
According to the BBC website.
Those packs will have to be rented you'd think. But as more cities insist on EVs then logistics firms will have to raise the money to buy EV lorries. But would you buy from Mercedes with their better service network and cheaper batteries from a more reliable source or take a huge, leveraged business punt on Tesla? According to the BBC website.
DonkeyApple said:
The question I have for EVs is as batteries advance and you wish to fit the newer batteries into existing cars how does this impact on the weight distribution? Not so important for commuter barges but mist be slightly relevant for the sports cars. For example, if you fitted modern battery cells to an original Tesla do you not risk changing the weight distribution completely?
It might impact weight distribution in the original Tesla roadster because that was a modified Lotus and so the batteries were not necessarily in the optimal position. The new generation Teslas (and I presume this includes the new roadster) have the batteries in the floor between the axles. If these battery packs ever get updated then it would seemingly be relatively easy to keep the centre of mass in the same place and have either less weight with the same capacity or the same weight and an increased capacity.
I'm reserving judgement on all these stats until these things are on the road for real. How many car manufacturers have announced a supercar with absurd figures, only for it never to be heard of again?
Tesla are really shaking up the market though aren't they. It's brilliant to see and can only be a good thing for all of us.
Tesla are really shaking up the market though aren't they. It's brilliant to see and can only be a good thing for all of us.
durbster said:
I'm reserving judgement on all these stats until these things are on the road for real. How many car manufacturers have announced a supercar with absurd figures, only for it never to be heard of again?
Tesla are really shaking up the market though aren't they. It's brilliant to see and can only be a good thing for all of us.
Tesla's performance claims have never failed to be met as far as I know.Tesla are really shaking up the market though aren't they. It's brilliant to see and can only be a good thing for all of us.
The hypercar market is saturated with optimists, but for once Tesla might be one that delivers.
robemcdonald said:
Fantastic thing for sure, but will it ever get made? Or imported to the UK? In RHD?
I have been eyeing up a model 3 as my next car, but no longer have confidence it will be available in here by 2020 let alone the 2018 originally promised.
All these new launches are impressive, but surely TESLA would be better resolving one problem at the time and not making more.
I genuinely would like to be proved wrong.
This. He seems to be getting sidelined with stuff like this and that electric truck.I have been eyeing up a model 3 as my next car, but no longer have confidence it will be available in here by 2020 let alone the 2018 originally promised.
All these new launches are impressive, but surely TESLA would be better resolving one problem at the time and not making more.
I genuinely would like to be proved wrong.
This car isn't for the masses and has the same relevance to me and to 99.9999% of the population as any other pointless hypercar from both a pointlessness and an affordability point of view.
Stuff like the Model 3 is where he will or will not crack the market but his production figures are woeful. This is what I want to see on the road - get those cars on the road that can be seen and the loopy halo hypercars can come later.
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