Tesla Motors designs and sells high-performance, highly efficient electric sports cars — with no compromises. Tesla Motors cars combine style, acceleration, and handling with advanced technologies that make them among the quickest and the most energy-efficient cars on the road. With a 0 to 60 mph acceleration of 3.9 seconds and the fastest 30 to 70 mph acceleration of any production car ever tested by Car & Driver magazine, combined with an EPA rating of 256 MPG equivalent, the Tesla Roadster is unique in providing super car performance at twice the energy efficiency of the best hybrids.
Whether you‘re more concerned about global warming or about national security, there's one thing we can probably agree on: we should be focused on freeing ourselves from dependence on oil.
Historically, it seemed to us that electric cars had been designed by people who thought we really shouldn't be driving at all - but if we must, we should suffer every minute of it. Electric cars have had terrible range and embarrassing styling. To those who say electric cars have been tried and failed we say, of course electric cars won‘t catch on if no one actually wants to drive them.
We needed to change perceptions of electric vehicles in a big way. To make electric cars a viable alternative, we set out to build one that was gorgeous and thrilling to drive.
Our first car, the Tesla Roadster, isn't a pipedream or a plan; this car exists now. With a range of about 220 miles/ 352 km on a single charge, you can use it all day long and not worry you'll run out of juice. Just plug it in at night the same way you drop your mobile phone into its charger, and sleep well, without guilt.
While the Tesla Roadster's sticker price is in a league with other high-performance sports cars with similar specs, we recognize it's out of reach for a lot of people. We consciously chose to develop a high-end sports car as our first car in order to develop the “performance DNA” from which we could create other electric vehicles. Our next model will leverage the Tesla Roadster‘s technology, resulting in a less expensive sports sedan that we can sell at higher volume.
