On Dec 29, 2006, at 11:55 AM, John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:49:23PM -0500, Christian wrote: >> rg2 wrote: >>> Hey, did you guys hear about the car a guy made with laptop >>> batteries? >>> >>> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/tesla.html > > Hear about it? I've seen it - the design studio is quite local. > Here's a (pretty bad) snapshot of it. Taken with a Pentax :-) > > http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/Tesla.jpg > > >> Ah yes, the Tesla http://www.teslamotors.com/ >> >> Now, if Detroit would just embrace this kind of technology, we could >> have a fully electric car that costs less than US$100k... Too bad >> they >> are in so deep with Big Oil > > Well, Detroit might not be interested, but Lotus are - they seem > to be planning to market the Tesla.
Getting quite close to release too. I've seen two of them, marked as prototypes, on the road in the neighborhood here. Very very cool cars. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
