"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:27:01 +0100, Doctor Drivel wrote:

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Made by Lotus and will do low flying. A saloon available in around 18
months time. Well bye, bye, internal combustion engine.

http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0...ory_page_prev2

Well I suppose the usanians might get excited about it but on this
side of the pond we've had the C5 for years :-)

- Equiv to 135mpg
- 130mph
- 250 miles range (will be better when more improved batteries are out in
a few years)
- 0-60 in 3 secs or so.

Not all at once though.

If equiv to 135mpg and range 250 miles that suggests about $4 to recharge
the battery. Assuming 15cents/kWh thats 26kWh stored energy.

As max power is 185kW which assume for 130mph, actual range approx 8.5
minutes or about 20 miles.

All assuming 100% efficiency which of course is crap. I am in UK so someone
check my figures, but they don't stack up from where I am sitting.

Slurp