Electric car manufacturer, Tesla has launched its super fast and super quiet Roadster.
With a £92,000 price tag, the British made Tesla Roadster is a real sports car with a strange twist – it is completely electric. A three-hour charge allows the sleek and stylish Tesla to travel up to 220 miles.
Even better, a top speed 125mph and acceleration 0 to 60mph in 3.9 seconds, this car competes with the best that conventional sports cars can offer. Electric cars like this could make myth of the hairdryer image the first electric cars were plagued with. The Daily Mail reports that the Roadster looks much like the Lotus Elise; not a surprise really as it is built by Lotus Engineering.
One slight drawback of electric cars finally reaching impressive speeds is that safety campaigners argue they are dangerously quiet. However Tesla decided not to give the Roadster any artificial noise. Blind pedestrian and cyclists are believed to be at particular risk from the new breed of high-speed yet low-noise electric vehicles.
Duncan Vernon, a road safety campaigner with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, told The Independent;
“There are going to be more and more electric cars of different types on our roads in years to come, so we need to be considering these issues now.”
For those with the budget, the Roadster is available to order now. Motorists will have to be quick as only 250 will initially be available in Europe, with deliveries early next year.
