Tesla Motors
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Tesla Motors Inc. calls San Carlos, CA home and is the product of engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, started in 2003, with the idea of creating High performance electric vehicles. The company is named for Nicola Tesla, a Physicist and revolutionary Electrical Engineer from turn of the 20th century, also known as the Father of Physics.
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[edit] Propulsion
As in all vehicles on the EV wikia, the Tesla motorcar is powered by an electric motor.
[edit] Motor
[edit] Battery
Li-ion technology is used in Tesla Roadster.
[edit] Transmission
[edit] Models
[edit] Current
Tesla Roadster
[edit] Planned
A sedan model is planned for production, code-named "White Star". This vehicle would likely resemble in form and function a BMW Series 5 or and Audi 6. The projected release is sometime in 2009 or 2010.
The company has just introduced a fully-electric, five passenger sports sedan dubbed the Model S, which will be selling for $60,000, and will manage 225 miles on a full charge.
Just after Tesla CEO Ze'ev Drori announced Telsa's plans to build the Model S, Elon Musk began discussing its development of electric car tech to get the price of future cars to (and below) $30,000. When asked when that technology would be commercially available, Musk said that it shouldn't be any more than four years from now.
[edit] Price Range
The Tesla Roadster is currently priced at about $100,000 - $120,000.
