Literally only weeks after my post about the upcoming electric car conspiracy movie, Who killed the electric car? I stumble upon a new car company in the US selling what is, for an intents and purposes, a electric Lotus Elise. Doing 0-60 in 4 seconds and with a range of 250 miles, the Tesla Roadster is some upgrade on the Sinclair C5.
Despite being assembled in the UK by Lotus, there doesn’t appear to be any short-term intent to sell them over here. The US market is obviously bigger and more sensitive about their fuel prices (after all, we’ve been fleeced sideways for too long on that issue).
It does come with a few issues, in particular the need for a 70amp source at home to charge it. However I suspect that the largest barrier to its introduction here will be the government’s inability to earn any tax from its fuel. If we can all fuel our cars from home, then where will they get the money to spend on pointless consultants in the public sector? There will probably be a need to have a charger professionally installed with a seperate meter so that the power companies can then charge out car recharging at a seperate rate…. nasty. here’s hoping that by the time it or its siblings arrive in the UK, that they come with solar cell panelling…
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