AmericanMe
May 3rd, 2008, 01:35 AM
Tesla electric sports car ready to hum onto highways (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5750054.html)
LOS ANGELES — It's safe to say Jeremy Snyder gets a charge out of the two-seat Tesla Roadster whenever he pulls one off the lot — and not because it's equipped with an all-electric engine.
As he pulled one of the sleek new automobiles down a side street Thursday and put the pedal to the metal, its lithium-ion battery-powered engine didn't give off sparks. It just emitted a powerful hum, something like a much quieter version of a jet taking off.
It could be a nuclear-powered car, and therefore less-polluting, if the environmental lobby didn't limit the advance of energy technology in the United States.
LOS ANGELES — It's safe to say Jeremy Snyder gets a charge out of the two-seat Tesla Roadster whenever he pulls one off the lot — and not because it's equipped with an all-electric engine.
As he pulled one of the sleek new automobiles down a side street Thursday and put the pedal to the metal, its lithium-ion battery-powered engine didn't give off sparks. It just emitted a powerful hum, something like a much quieter version of a jet taking off.
It could be a nuclear-powered car, and therefore less-polluting, if the environmental lobby didn't limit the advance of energy technology in the United States.