Can this be true?

Strange, this article (linked below) also on Wiki, states - 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.7 seconds! Even better!!! Ah, it's the Roadster Sport model. “The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) sports car produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors. The Roadster is one of the few highway-capable electric automobile for sales to the public in 2010, and Tesla delivered around 900 cars to customers in the United States and Europe by December 2009, with production reaching 1,000 cars in January 2010. The Roadster is the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production BEV (all-electric) to travel more than 200 miles (320 km) per charge. The world distance record of 501 km (311 mi) for a production electric car on a single charge was set by a Roadster on October 27, 2009 during the Global Green Challenge in outback Australia. According to an independent analysis from the U.S. EPA, the Roadster can travel 244 miles (393 km) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack, and can accelerate from 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.7 seconds. The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008[update], was reported as 120 mpgge (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 W·h/km (21.7 kW·h/100 mi or 490 kJ/km) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 92% on average.” Note. mpgge = miles per gallon gasoline equivalent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_roadster

It is true! http://www.topgear.com/au/videos/electric-shocker It makes you wonder how the car would perform if it didn’t have to lug all those batteries around. Maybe the engine could be developed as the power source for an electric train, or, eventually, perhaps, for batteryless cars on electric roads! Didn't Tesla also have an idea for broadcasting power? It might sound silly but I’d love to know how there cars would perform with bigger wheels. The acceleration hints that they are under geared but it seems that any gear system breaks so what about those big wheels, almost like tractor wheels, that some all terrain vehicles use. It wouldn’t do for a production car but it might give some idea of how much further they could go on a single charge if some method of gearing could be added.

Thinking about the future of electric cars they would need some sort of electric stations just as present cars need petrol stations. Yeah you could charge at home, just as you can pour petrol out of cans, but it’s slow. Now what was the name of those new, high efficiency, electric generators that FTSE mentioned - Black Box or something? It seems that a lot of the power generated by conventional means is lost by the Grid. So, on the spot generators are much more efficient from that standpoint alone. Still, both these ‘new’ inventions make you realise that it is the new materials that we can manufacture that are the real breakthrough! There must be many great improvements in technology just waiting for clever people to find inspired ideas that could not be put into practice before but can be now… Someone I talked with today suggested Tesla trams - what a great idea!