July 5, 2015
YOUR NEXT CAR WILL BE A VOLT:
Tesla S: car review : The electric Tesla S is a pure spark of inspiration. But how did it get so far ahead of the competition? (Martin Love, 5 July 2015, The Guardian)
The future doesn't arrive gently: it comes at a leap - a great galumphing jump that leaves you laughing with disbelief. I drove the Tesla S last week and it offers such revolutionary solutions to so many of the oily problems that bog most manufacturers down that you wonder what on earth they've all been doing. While they've been dozing, Elon Musk, the polymath gigabillionaire who invented PayPal, has set about changing the cars we drive - and the way we drive them. [...]The car doesn't have a fuel tank, exhaust pipes, petrol cap or any of the other gubbins associated with an internal combustion engine. Being purely electric it only has one gear. Hit the throttle and the car accelerates in a soaring, totally silent, endless swoosh - it essentially does 0-140mph in first. It also doesn't have an ignition. There is no on or off. The car wakes up when you approach it (it detects that tiny Tesla in your pocket). You get in, select D, press the throttle and off you slip. When you stop, you just get out and walk away.
They just installed a Tesla charging station at the shopping mall in West Lebanon, NH.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 5, 2015 6:41 AM
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