Fast, Silent Like A Bullet

Of course, you can’t resist the temptation of a car which is as fast and silent as a bullet. Electric cars are like that; they are pretty silent.

One of the world leaders in the production of electric cars is Tesla Motors. On the cover of the March issue of Automobile magazine, the automaker was tagged “this year’s most important [electric] sports car.”

The automaker boasts of performance statistics of zero to 96 kilometers an hour in 4.7 seconds, and a top speed of 200 km/h and a 340-km range.

With the arrival of Tesla in the United States, buffs holler…but the cars were quiet.

National Post writes:

“P1,” which is auto industry parlance for the first production unit, belongs to Elon Musk, Tesla’s chairman and a former PayPal executive who has spent much of his personal fortune making the car a reality.

After mechanics installed the battery pack that contains more than 6,800 lithium-ion cells, Musk took the car out for its first spin. “I’ve invested US$50-million and a lot of time and effort into Tesla, so it’s very gratifying to be able to drive my car for the first time,” he said.

Musk envisions selling thousands of Roadsters a year before quickly expanding to a more affordable electric luxury sedan and then adding a cheaper compact electric. “We’re definitely going to make a lot of cars, otherwise this would be a very expensive car,” Musk said. “Much anticipated and much delayed, the Tesla Roadster heralds a new age of electric vehicles.”

The zero-emission car was scheduled to kick off early last year, but problems with its transmission derailed the release. Tesla grabbed the spotlight over the past year as it replaced its CEO and co-founder, Martin Eberhard, with Ze’ev Drori, a Silicon Valley tech expert. “This is the beginning of the realization of the dreams,” Drori added.

Tesla’s arrival calls for a celebration. Cheers to that!