The Tesla Story from Stanford University - How do you power a fast car without gas? With a really big battery.
| January 16, 2008 |  View for printing |
THINK FAST: The Roadster has Ferrari-like acceleration and speed but is as quiet as a laptop.
On a late July afternoon in 2003 an electric car powered by the sun and built by Stanford students rolled across the baking Mojave Desert, headed for Los Angeles. Stanford’s entry that year in the biennial American Solar Challenge race, the car—resembling a ground-hovering spaceship—traveled up to 60 miles per hour on roughly the same energy needed to run a hair dryer.
BY ANN MARSH
Full Story: http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/m ... /tesla.html
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