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No the picture to the left is not a sports car pumping gas, it's actually the new Tesla Roadster 2.5 hooked up to an outlet. The Roadster is a high performance fully electric car being rolled out in the near future. The car gets over 200 miles in a single charge, and can go from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds!
Over the past decade it has seemed like new car technologies; plug-in hybrids, fully electric cars, and the ever highly touted fuel cell cars, have been continually hyped but when it comes to rolling them out into production, it always seems like they are just a few more years off from actually being produced. Much of this hype and then continual disappointment has lead a green enthusiast like myself to become increasingly skeptical of when the "future" of green cars would actually arrive. But with the production of the Roadster it looks like we have finally reached that point. The main barrier to widespread sales of electric vehicles is the perception about lack of performance, combined with high prices.
The Roadster proves that electric cars don't have to sacrifice functionality and style to be environmentally friendly, but even the cheapest Roadster sells for a staggering $57,000! What gives me hope though, is that the large auto manufacturers like Ford, Toyota, Nissan and GM will all be releasing much more reasonably priced plug-in hybrids, or fully electric vehicles in 2011 and 2012.Is the future of car innovation finally here, by all estimates it looks to be a resounding yes!
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