Tesla Roadster - a look into the future

Ecology is boring. Wild freaks of nature order emergency particulate filters on diesels, stringent emission standards often drive up car prices and degrade performance, and the career of the G-XNUMXs is already known - instead, children at home will dismantle them for parts of building blocks. However, out of this gloomy vision of the future, a company has emerged that wants to please everyone - both environmentalists and people who are waiting for them at the house with a pitchfork.

Tesla. And it's not about the guy who invented the fluorescent light bulb, the dynamo, the solar cell and a bunch of other electrical devices - although the company name actually comes from his last name. Then what is this brand? She's originally from the United States, and she employs a handful of people who know each other well enough to know who's sleeping with whom, and who commute to a small factory in San Carlos every day. The company was founded in the early 90s, but not in the 20th century, but in 2006. Yes, it has only been on the market for years, but the first serious concept car was released only last year. The car was so well received that two years later it went into mass production. People literally jumped on the new car, and the brand's founders, Eberhard and Tarpenning, were able to hire maids who could walk on the walls for the extra money. But what kind of car is this?

The Tesla Roadster is, at first glance, a pretty sports car. For the second - a small, cramped and not very comfortable car, in which everything larger and wider than the average refrigerator causes sympathy. However, something had to make the world love this car. First, do you have the impression that you have seen this somewhere? Yes! The roadster was built in collaboration with Lotus, so it has a lot in common with the Elise. And do you know what that means? Unbridled joy! Eliza appears to have made a pact with God that allowed him to change the laws of gravity. Only it is not known what he wanted in return, maybe drivers who will “drive a stick” on one of the turns? Despite the miniature Toyota engine, streamers and typical rally tracks are the element in which the Elise overtakes even twice as powerful cars. Tesla drives like this too. And even better, because it is more dynamic and stronger. If so, why did Lotus help build the same car that is still capable of overtaking it?

It's simple - because Tesla is not particularly a competitor to him. It is currently the only widely available sports car powered entirely by electricity! And here's the catch. Ecologists are happy that the cranes will lay more eggs, and ordinary users that they will actually be able to drive normally. The only problem is that you need to have an account. The Swiss bank is the best because they are said to have the best security - the car costs over 100 roubles. dollars. Well, news is always expensive, so it's good to treat the roadster as the start of a change. And ride it, because it is what it is.

The operating principle of this car seems fabulously simple. The designers borrowed the Elise model from Lotus, attached a slightly different body to it, installed an electric one instead of an internal combustion engine, and filled all the available space with batteries from a digital camera. Lots of rechargeable batteries. 6831 to be exact. Can you imagine what will happen when all this warms up behind the wheel? That is why the principle of operation is not so simple. It was necessary to develop an appropriate cooling system. There is fluid flowing in the system, and the driver will not turn into a gyroplane after an hour of driving. By the way, the question immediately arises: how long will such batteries last without replacing them with new ones? Tesla is not an mp4 player after all, so no one will want to buy 6831 units after a year of more intensive use. Experts from Tesla have calculated that a new package will have to be purchased in 5-7 years, or 160 3.5. km if you drive a lot. However, this is not the most tedious thing about electric cars. After all, fuel is expensive, poisonous, smelly and explosive, which means it has some disadvantages. Only its refueling takes up to several minutes. Electric vehicles have the characteristic that their batteries die after leaving the garage, and then you have to leave them plugged in for at least half a day before they can leave the area again. And such an amount of time in the case of today's busy society is something like locking yourself in a Soviet prison at your own request. Fortunately, the gentlemen from Tesla understand the problems of modern people and took care of this small detail - a full charge takes only 400 hours, and the batteries are so efficient that they can provide energy for a distance of almost 1200 km. How much does it all weigh? This is a very good question. Car weight 1 kg on wheels. A lot, if you look at its small dimensions and plasticity. However, this figure ceases to be surprising when it turns out that 3/400 of the weight of the entire car is batteries - about kg! In this case, can you expect sports performance with such weight and an electric motor? And here you might be surprised.

You approach the car - there are no door handles. There are touch sensors for this - just touch them and the door will open. You go inside, start the engine, choose the direction of movement and ... nothing. Everywhere is dark, everywhere is muffled - as in a drama by Mickiewicz. To check if the car works at all, you press the “gas” to the floor and then it starts - the passenger, if he sits nearby, falls out through the open roof, the eyes change with the brain, the skin on the face stretches, and through the windshield you can see St. Peter - that's how this car drives. 288KM are available within 4.4-6 thousand rpm, 400Nm of torque - this is enough to see the "hundred" in exactly 3.7 s. Due to the fact that the electric motor would gladly spend its entire life connected to the network, it is a little underestimated. However, due to minimal energy losses and specific performance characteristics, it pumps its capabilities into the car almost from the moment it is turned on, thanks to which it can work wonders. Well, it comes to 14 thousand. RPM But what is really at work under the hood of Tesla? The block is three-phase, four-pole, inductive and has 375 V - whatever that means. It is important that he rides well. As befits a sports car, it drives the rear wheels, but is not connected to some fancy gearbox - the gear ratio is constant, and there is no clutch at all. In general, it is strange to write such things, because usually the topic of the transmission is whether it will pass or not, and the engine is its sound, usually up to 2. RPM is as boring as an interview with Paris Hilton, and she smokes too much. It's not here - you can sweat a lot, but driving this car is like jumping from a bungee after castration, because a forked monster does not roar behind you. So does it make sense to drop 109 ? dollars for such a car? Well, have you ever seen a new Ferrari at the price you can keep for a pack of crackers when you buy it? If I could see, I wouldn't even think about it. But I didn't know - so I will be one of those who open a Swiss bank account with a dedication to Tesla. And this despite my hatred for the environment.

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