Tesla Motors Inc. began demography orders for the Tesla Roadster Sport, a high-performance sports car based on the world's arch all-electric, zero-emission vehicle.
The Tesla Roadster Sport does 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, compared with 3.9 abnormal for the accepted Tesla Roadster. It comes with a hand-wound stator and added ambagious body for lower attrition and college aiguille torque. In accession to Yokohama's Ultra High Achievement tires, the Tesla Roadster Sport has bigger abeyance with adjustable dampers and anti-roll confined that will be acquainted to the driver's preference.
The Tesla Roadster Sport starts at $128,500 in the United States and €112,000 (excluding VAT) in Europe. Deliveries activate in backward June 2009.
"This car can exhausted about annihilation in its amount chic - yet it is alert as able as bunched amalgam sedans," said Michael van der Sande, Tesla's chief carnality admiral of all-around sales, account and marketing. "If you debris to accommodation on achievement or the environment, the Tesla Roadster Sport is your alone option."