Friday, March 25, 2011

Inside Tesla Car Factory

Tesla Motors  is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle powertrain components. It is currently the only automaker building and selling a zero-emission sports car in serial production (as opposed to prototype or evaluation series production). Tesla is also deep into the engineering and production development of a zero-emission premium sedan, the Model S. Tesla also sells its electric powertrain components to other automakers, including Daimler and Toyota.
Tesla Motors is in the process of developing and testing its new electric drive sedan - Tesla Model .Tesla opened the door , and allow to walk through the car assembly plant in Palo Alto, to see the development of Model S.


The Model S is being designed as a high performance electric sedan, competing with such cars as the BMW 5-series.The base model will have a range of 160 miles (260 km) when fully charged, and a 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) acceleration of 5.6 seconds.














Flat, black device accommodates about 7000 lithium ion cells and is attached directly below Model S. Tesla claims that the power supply will work properly for 10 years, for buyers will be available different types of batteries: one to be missed by 260 miles, the other two will be missed by a distance of 370km to 485km (charging time will vary from several hours to several days). Model with a battery at 260 km will cost $ 57.400, on the model of 370km - about $ 67.000 and a model for 485km - about $ 77,000.







 
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