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Tesla Roadster packs power in a flash of electricity - Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times, CA - Feb 06, 2009 Los Angeles TimesTesla Roadster packs power in a flash of electricity By DAN NEIL I'm bombing around Hollywood on a Saturday night in an all-electric Tesla Roadster, a sick-with-torque, carbon-fiber mosquito with a half-ton of Batteries? Yep. Wimpy? Ha! Electric car's time may have come

On a Mission and Going Green, Very, Very Fast. - Red Herring Red Herring, CA - Feb 06, 2009 guardian.co.ukOn a Mission and Going Green, Very, Very Fast. Behar a former Tesla Motors' Roadster veteran has produced something that even the most sceptical biker to stop and lift up their visor and take notice. PHOTOS: Mission Motors Unveils the Tesla Roadster of Motorcycles First the luxury electric sportscar, now the battery-powered motorbike New electric motorcycle is Tesla of bike world

Tesla Roadster One-Make Electric Vehicle Racing Series In Discussion? - Jalopnik Jalopnik, MI - Feb 05, 2009 Tesla Roadster One-Make Electric Vehicle Racing Series In Discussion? By Ray Wert , 9:20 AM on Thu Feb 5 2009, 239 views Two separate Middle Eastern groups are looking at starting a Tesla Roadster one-make racing series. Tesla one-make racing series: Nothing factory-backed, for now TMR News and Features Federal Funds Trail Takes Tesla from Greenfield  -

OLPC designer styles goes-like-stink electric motorbike - Reg Hardware Reg Hardware, UK - Feb 06, 2009 OLPC designer styles goes-like-stink electric motorbike We are taking the Telsa staff DNA as a good thing – after all the Tesla Roadster has actually made it to the consumer, albeit with the aid of Elon Musk's

The Brabus Tesla Roadster - Luxvelocity Luxvelocity, MA - Feb 03, 2009 The Brabus Tesla Roadster BRABUS (www.brabus.com) presents an exclusive customization program for the Tesla Roadster, the world’s first electrically powered production sports car.

Tesla Roadster packs power in a flash of electricity - Los Angeles Times

06.02.09

Street lights streak past me like tracer bullets. My little mental circuits go snap-pop with the thrust. God has grabbed me by the jockstrap and fired me off his thumb, rubber band-style. Wow.

Meanwhile, over in the Porsche, 19th-century mechanical forces are taking their own sweet time. The driver has to clutch, shift to a lower gear, and de-clutch -- a regime that takes about half a second if he's talented. When he pushes on the accelerator pedal, the throttles in the Porsche's throat open, the fuel injectors start hosing down the cylinders with high-test, and the variable-angle cams rotate to maximize intake-valve duration. The flashing fire in the cylinders can now apply its maximum force to the pistons.

But it takes precious milliseconds to overcome the inertia of the engine's reciprocating masses -- the pistons, the rods and the crankshaft -- and to convert that force to torque (rotational force). Then that torque must pass through the clutch assembly and transaxle,

Source: Los Angeles Times, CA