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" Forget what you think you know about the electric car. That bog-slow glorified golf cart in your mind is about to be history. The new Tesla Roadster doesn&amp;#039;t just break that stodgy and sluggish century old mold of the electric car\u2014it shatters it. The Tesla Roadster is the very first a high performance electric car. It&amp;#039;s said to run to 60 mph in around 4 seconds and top out at 130 mph thanks to a powerful 185 KW, 3-phase, 4-pole AC induction motor that can spin up to 13,000 rpm. A battalion of Lithium-Ion batteries (6,831 cells) provides a staggering range of 200-250-miles depending on the driving style. And charging at home is said to take around 3.5 hours. A travel recharge system is available as an option. That&amp;#039;s blows away the old GM EV1 which couldn&amp;#039;t cover 100 miles on a single charge\u2014at least when the air conditioning was running\u2014and took all night to charge. The Roadster shares much of its chassis components with the Lotus Elise. In fact the car will be assembled in the Lotus factory in England. That&amp;#039;s good news because the Elise chassis is one of the lightest and most entertaining in all of sportscardom. But unlike the Lotus, Tesla&amp;#039;s unique body is made from carbon fiber. Tesla&amp;#039;s Roadster will be available in 2007. The cost? Between $80,000 and $100,000. Hey, saving the planet and having a blast doing it doesn&amp;#039;t come cheap. Perhaps Tesla&amp;#039;s success will spawn a new generation of less expensive EVs. Check it out here. It&amp;#039;s Electric: The Lotus is plugged in.  Batteries included. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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