Tesla Shows Off New Roadster Prototype

Nice car with great potential, but whats with the crowd all screaming and whooping ?? Has Elon spiked all their drinks ?? ;);)
 
Gasaraki_ said:
Al the people complaining about the price.

One, give me one super car that can do 0-60 in 1.9 secs.
Two, that's like complaining that the Chiron costs 2 million dollars. Sorry this super car is not for you.

If it really goes that fast and goes that far, 200K is not really that expensive. The Bugatti Chiron, Porsche 918, Ferrari La Ferrari, and McClaren P1 can't do 0-60 in 1.9 secs.
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Yet all of those cars can make a lap around a track without going into a degraded performance mode.
 
It's going to be a drag racing monster, but that's it. Estimates for the weight of the battery pack are in the 2000 to 2500lbs range. I think that little roadster is in the 4000lbs range. So i don't think it will be a road course machine. Of course take it with a gain of salt the size of a mountain.
 
gixser said:
Who are these people in the crowd? The sycophantic behavior is just sickening....especially when its clear they aren't "car people".
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Most people at Tesla and those who can afford a $200k car generally aren't car people. It's more about having a status symbol and whatever the 'cool' thing is. This is why cars like this generally are of no interest to me as they are generally owned by celebrities that just toot the thing around at events to look cool.
 
Merc1138 said:
Finally, decent range! And it costs $200k... has no capacity for anything because it's a sports car, and even though it is a sports car... has Tesla ever gotten a car that can perform at the track yet without the battery overheating? Because if I were to ever spend $200k on a sports car... I'm going to take the thing to the track on occasion. Yeah sure fine you can go to the drag strip and beat people all day long, but an actual race course?

edit: Just did some poking around, sure enough the model s still craps out fast at a normal track. $200k for a stoplight and freeway on-ramp hero... no thanks.
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This is exactly why no true sports car enthusiast will buy this car, its a drag strip monster but it will probably never even complete a lap at Nurburgring.... But if drag racing is the focus then shit this car is a monster.
 
Mchart said:
Most people at Tesla and those who can afford a $200k car generally aren't car people. It's more about having a status symbol and whatever the 'cool' thing is. This is why cars like this generally are of no interest to me as they are generally owned by celebrities that just toot the thing around at events to look cool.
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You mean like this guy?
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Seems like a hardcore car guy to me. Took a test drive in the new Roadster here:



Says it's faster than his Mclaren 720S.
 
Wierdo said:
You mean like this guy?
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Seems like a hardcore car guy to me. Took a test drive in the new Roadster here:



Says it's faster than his Mclaren 720S.
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That guy is a douchebag, and I don't see videos of him building engines. He has a bunch of money and buys the latest thing and shows it off on youtube.
 
It's cool and all. But for a family man like myself, too pricey and not practical. A Charger Hellcat will fill my need for speed, with having the kids and wife riding comfortably to boot.
 
monkeymagick said:
With a 200 kWh battery pack, it has a range of 620 miles and can go 1000 km in one charge at highway speeds,.
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This is literally the only spec that matters..Put this in a regular car and you have something actually capable of competing with ICE as an equal if not better alternative. I am far less inclined to bitch that it takes 30+ minutes to charge if I can get darn near the maximum range I can drive in a single day. Every EV produced before this has frankly been a gimmick with terrible range.
 
EODetroit said:
He told us who they are in the video. Did you skip that part? They're people who won the right to be there through Tesla referrals, they're executives from trucking companies, and they're Tesla employees.
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Thanks. I did skip around because I couldn't focus on the car for want of the, seeming to me, hysterical gasping.
 
Was real excited, performance for price is fantastic, till I realized Tesla's big lie. It is NOT a roadster. It is a bloody targa.
 
Mchart said:
That guy is a douchebag, and I don't see videos of him building engines. He has a bunch of money and buys the latest thing and shows it off on youtube.
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Oh so you mean car guy as in mechanic. Thought you meant someone that likes throwing money on muscle cars - meh, to each his own - not some guy that fixes them.

Well there's this guy then, closer to what you want perhaps:



Rebuilt his Tesla himself for $6500.
 
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otherweeb said:
Your approximate age please? I'm marking my calendar.
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34. Do you people think when electric cars finally that we all be driving Tesla like cars? The affordable cars will be small slow crappy Prius like cars.
 
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"The affordable cars will be small slow crappy Prius like cars" I was following a Prius down the highway at 120. Slow crappy cars are long gone. Ford escorts, geo metros and such. I remember in my dad's Escort having to turn the AC off to get up to 55 mph. The cheapest electric cars will still pwn those clunkers.
 
wnielsen said:
"The affordable cars will be small slow crappy Prius like cars" I was following a Prius down the highway at 120. Slow crappy cars are long gone. Ford escorts, geo metros and such. I remember in my dad's Escort having to turn the AC off to get up to 55 mph. The cheapest electric cars will still pwn those clunkers.
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Sure, but the problem at least in the SF bay area is everyone in their prius, leaf, etc. who wants to sit there and conserve as much battery life as they can so they're merging onto the freeway at 30mph because the on-ramp isn't long enough for them to slowly creep up to 65(nevermind that the rest of the traffic is doing closer to 80), or the guy who wants to sit in the fast lane trying to hypermile his prius at 55mph when the speed limit is 65, and all other lanes of traffic are doing at least 70 with people having to dodge around him.
 
EODetroit said:
When has Tesla fallen down on performance metrics? Timelines, sure. But when they say it'll do a certain speed or get so many miles per charge, I think they end up doing exactly that or better.
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When they said their cars were 700 hp, which they weren't. At which point, they got sued and lost. So they no longer claim hp ratings. Was a stupid idea to claim a hp rating based off their drag times.
 
dangerouseddy said:
I see lots of brown outs in the future if a metaphorical finger isn't pulled out and the infrastructure upgraded.
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Only if the EV adoption rate goes exponential. Slowly shifting all that fuel use from car ICE's to gas/oil power plants would still substantially improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Obviously the more we can power with nuclear and renewable sources the better.

Lack of charging stations is the more serious infrastructure issue.
 
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