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Battery-Fueled Car Will Smoke You

July 20, 2006 /

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Martin Eberhard holds the brake down with his left foot and presses on the accelerator with his right. The motor revs, the car strains against the brake. I hear … almost nothing. Just a quiet whine like the sound of a jet preparing for takeoff 5 miles away. We’re belted into a shimmering black sports car on a quiet, tree-lined street in San Carlos, California, 23 miles south of San Francisco. It has taken Eberhard three years to get this prototype ready for mass production, but with the backing of PayPal cofounder Elon Musk, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and ex-eBay chief Jeff Skoll, he has created Silicon Valley’s first real auto company.

By Joshua Davis, from Wired magazine

Full Story: http://wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=wn_index_2

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Take a tour of a prototype of Tesla Motors’ new Roadster, a blazing-fast sports car powered by lithium-ion batteries.

http://blog.wired.com/teslacar/