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FYI the batteries are recycleable.

It should be the wave of the future!

1) Gas probably won’t go away for a while, so all of you petrol heads, please stop the hissy fits.

2) Electric cars are not conspiring against you, in fact, it just means cheaper gas prices- demand takes a dive!!! I think this is what we need to create competition for the big oil companies.

3) This means better things are in the horizons as I still consider electric car building in its infancy.

4) IMHO- there are no safe energy choices, yet. I think the problem is the lack of balance. Hopefully, this will help bring in some balance and stabilize things.

-JB

1. When you compare cars that can go from 0 to 60 in around 4 seconds, this car is moderately priced at around $100,000. That said, I can’t afford it. But if I could afford it I would buy it.

2. With only 2 moving parts in the drivetrain, there is not much that can go wrong mechanically.

3. The company estimates the batteries are good for 100,000 miles. With the money you save from gasoline and frequent tune-ups that we pay for, I bet it’s cheaper to replace the batteries. And who knows, after 100,000 miles (about 5 years) the next set of batteries will most likely have a larger capacity and longer range.

It will be a great day when the average joe can do a motor swap in half an hour…

Yeah, but they are running off gasoline, which costs a lot, is not renewable, creates pollution, and causes wars…

Now we have an electic car that can go just as far as a gasoline car, and just as fast…

TrackBack:
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/07/tesla_reveals_h.html#more

Whoever said the back (and the front) look like a lotus, they are right in saying so. The lead engineer is ex-louts. Notice the front splitter, rear diffuser and flying buttress. Lots o’ down force.

So I might have gotten the numbers wrong on the production side of electricity. Let’s call it 40% to be on the low side. Transmission I was spot on at 90%. Motor I know is 90%. That works out to 33% efficiency. That is still a whole lot better than gasoline and comparable to the theoretical diesel hybrid.

This IS the way of the future. BTW, who said that light isn’t safe? What a moron. The koenisegg CCX is the safest vehicle on the planet (according to Euro NCAP) and it weighs scant over 2500 lbs.

And what does the weight of a car have to do with crash worthiness? An F1 car is about a 1000 pounds and it is engineered to allow the driver to walk away from a crash at 200mph. Plus today’s average car is as heavy as cars from the 70’s – something like 4000 lbs – but I would much rather be in an accident in todays cars than a 70’s death-mobile.

here’s the link
http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2006-Audi-R-Zero-Concept.htm

“The conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy can be accomplished with an efficiency of about 80%. In a hydroelectric plant, the losses occur in the turbines, bearings, penstocks, and generators. The basic limitations of thermodynamics fix the maximum efficiency obtainable in converting heat to electrical energy. The necessity of limiting the temperature to safe levels also helps to keep the efficiency down to about 41% for a fossil-fuel plant. Most nuclear plants use low-pressure, low-temperature steam operation, and have an even lower efficiency of about 30%. Nuclear plants have been able to achieve efficiency up to 40% with liquid-metal cooling. It is thought that by using magnetohydrodynamic “toppingâ€? generators in conjunction with normal steam turbines, the efficiency of conventional plants can be raised to close to 50%. These devices remove the restrictions imposed by the blade structure of turbines by using the steam or gasses produced by combustion as the working fluid.”
And more here: http://www.answers.com/topic/electric-power

Apparently just converting d/c to a/c results in a drop of 4 to 10% with current inverter efficiency. Doesn’t matter if generated by wind, waves, or farts.

The electric motor and power grid may be reasonably efficient, but by converting energy from raw materials, to electricity, then passing that power over lines and thru transformers to individual charging stations, then storing it in a battery (or many in this case), before being called upon to perform, doesn’t it sound like a very efficient machine in the grand scheme.

But anyway, what I am really waiting for is Mitsubishi MIEV technology which will appear around 2010. Instant torque response on electric car should be through the roof. Also no need for a transmission nor heavy gas engine will make the cars a bit lighter and more innovative from aesthetic point of view as designers will have no front engine (as each wheel will have it’s own little engine) which means more area to play around with the design.

Obviously this car is just a toy for the rich, but it gets the idea in our heads that maybe an electric car is a viable idea.

They need to make it more efficient and have a better range, and be less exspensive, but its a good start.