Check this out. The Tesla Model S, the story, it's quite amazing. If you watch the video below, you will realize that:
1. Tesla is the car of the future... well, now
2. You should apply for a job at the Tesla plant if you need work
3. you will soon own and drive a Tesla
In the video, here are some points I jotted down:
It's worth watching the whole thing, pretty amazing:
[youtube]fmVtfBBYdZA[/youtube]
Fast forward to 13:36 for quick details
1. Tesla is the car of the future... well, now
2. You should apply for a job at the Tesla plant if you need work
3. you will soon own and drive a Tesla
In the video, here are some points I jotted down:
- The car is powered purley by electricity
- The car has >= range than gasoline vehicles (480 km)
- The car has power, is faster than some supercars, watch it spank the Dodge Viper SRT10 in the 1/4 mile here.
- The car is all aluminum and light weight
- The car is mostly assembled by robots, except for the attention-to-detail parts
- The car is powered by thousands of lithium ion cells
- The car's "engine" is smaller than a typical subwoofer box, and houses between the rear wheels
- The car's electric motor is magnetic field driven (induction motor), a concept created by Nikola Tesla himself (in 1887)
- The car needs no transmission
- The car needs no driveshaft, and has minimal moving parts
- The car only needs to be driven by one pedal -- the gas pedal, when let off, becomes the brake pedal
- The car costs less than half to recharge than to fill a gasoline vehicle
- The car is affordable
- The car has trunk space than turns into an additional 2 seats for a total of 6 seats (it's a 4 door SEDAN)
- The car has all storage under the front hood
- The car has zero emissions, produces no heat, and no exhaust fumes (design team test drives the car indoors -- in their plant!)
- The car is relatively silent, no noise
- The car's paint is double baked to a glass finish
It's worth watching the whole thing, pretty amazing:
[youtube]fmVtfBBYdZA[/youtube]
Fast forward to 13:36 for quick details