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What do you think of the all-electric Tesla roadster? You are going to see a lot of products coming from different car manufacturers because this is perceived as the technology of the future. But the mass-marketization of this technology is going to start with: is it affordable, is it reliable and how easy is it for consumers to charge the car, maintain it, resell...
...turn ship the components to an installer near you. At least for now, an after-market conversion is the only option if you really want to rev up your fuel economy - short of ditching your car altogether and plunking down $109,000 for the all-electric Tesla Roadster or settling for Zap's barely street-legal three-wheeler. "I wanted something real today," says Cox, 50, who works as a database administrator...
...prison. In this Death Race, lifers drive the souped-up, heavily armed autos, and are promised an early release if they win five races. One of the inmates, a masked mystery man known as Frankenstein, is a four-time champion, hence the pay-per-view audience's favorite roadster. Hennessey's secret problem: Frank died from injuries suffered in the last race. She needs a new guy to put on the mask and slip behind the wheel of the Frankencar...
...Unsurprisingly, these stylish eco-warriors do not come cheap. They are exempt from road taxes and the central-London congestion charge, but at a base price of $109,000 for the Roadster and a target price of $240,000 for the Lightning, they may be made for the green among us but certainly not the mean - much cheaper, less-élite models will have to appear before the wider population can jump on the battery-powered bandwagon...
...unmarketable designs that have gone before may be giving way to a new breed of electric car that is attractive, stylish and as much an appeal to our ego as to our green conscience. Judging by the crowds around the two cars in London, both the Lightning and the Roadster have car buffs' attention already...