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Your Next Car? Or Maybe the One After That
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=David_Cox] David Cox

In the technological lifecycle of new products there are distinct stages, first a concept must be proven feasible. Then it must be shown that the idea can be sold and mass-produced in the market place. After these first two steps are achieved and production is accomplished then as the product becomes accepted the price begins to fall. Cell phones, microwave ovens, CD players all entered the marketplace with exorbitant prices but as they proved their worth the prices fell.

Enter the 2006 Tesla Roadster 0 to 60 in four seconds at a cost of one penny per mile. At 0 to 60 in four seconds you could pass most anything on the highway, but what you will always pass is the gas station. The Tesla roadster is all electric with a 250-mile range and a full charge time of three hours. That is equivalent to 135 mpg. It’s secret is the battery a lithium ion lightweight battery the same as in your cell phone. As miles per gallons in gasoline vehicles have stalled at around 50-mpg battery technology keeps on improving.

General Motors proved with their EV1 electric car program the concept was viable in fact when the leased cars were call back in many of leasers begged GM to sell them the cars. So step one has been achieved and the concept proved and step two if only anecdotally is proven people enjoy electric cars. Now if you can give them performance with a two hundred and fifty mile range the only factor left is the cost. My first microwave cost almost $500.00 in 1985 dollars my last one $150.00 in 2000 dollars like wise cell phones and VCR’s it all part of the process. This is America and you can’t sell a car that runs forever for a nickel if it doesn’t look cool!

This car looks cool; if you saw it coming it would turn your head guessing Ferrari? Lamborghini or Porsche? The car is futuristic, fully integrating the computer and the automobile turn the key and nothing happens until you add your pin. Drop your Tesla off for valet parking you switch to valet mode top speed 30 mph. This is a car for the 21st century every bell and whistle is included. Everything you would expect 4 wheel disc brakes, ABS with airbags with super car performance.

The car comes from the factory with a battery charger included and is outfitted both the car and the charging unit with computers that talk to each other. No power will begin transferring unless both computers are in agreement. If the charging cable isn’t correctly attached or there is tension on the cord (from pets, kids, bicycles, and other items that may pass through your garage), the charger disengages. Even the battery box is self-regulating and protecting. It‘s programmed to prevent overcharging, and will shut itself down should you ever play U boat commander like Tom Cruise in Risky Business or if it senses that the car‘s airbags have deployed.

Why electric? Why not a Hybrid? the answer is oil dependence the Hybrid is like an alcoholic that says I’m not going to drink as much today as I did yesterday. 63% of every drop of oil we import is used as a motor fuel, 3% is used to generate electricity. The Tesla is zero emission, zero nada zilch. Hybrids are cleaner but they don’t solve the problem, Hybrids are a boat when what we need is a bridge.

Don’t get me wrong Hybrids are great improvement but Hybrids integrate a gasoline engine with an electric motor and battery pack. The gasoline engine is small to save weight and fuel and like wise the electric motor and battery pack. It’s snowshoes and ski’s if you’ve have an electric motor system with gasoline performance what’s the gasoline engine for? Training wheels perhaps? Hybrids remind me of the old saying “a camel is a horse designed by a committee.” Lets not forget the main purpose why we are doing this, to save the planet to lesson the need for foreign oil is good but to eliminate it would be great!

Scientists and environmentalist forecast we must cut back on our emissions of green house gases by 20% in the next 25 years or the future is bleak. How about 60%, President Kennedy gave us a goal of ten years to reach the moon when the technology to do so didn’t exist, this technology does exist. Everything you ever wanted in a car and less for $1.80 a fill up not a gallon but a fill up! No standing in the cold or rain and snow filling up the old gas burner for you, you pull into the garage put in the plug and your done.
Embrace the future my Grandmother didn’t like gasoline automobiles.

Simplicity is the answer everyone knows about electric motors and batteries, how often do you have trouble with a fan or your refrigerator or a can opener all electric motors. When you build a car that’s electric, you start with one built-in advantage: Electric cars just don’t have to be as complex mechanically as the car you’re probably driving now. Sophisticated electronics and software take the place of the pounds and pounds of machinery required to introduce a spark and ignite the fuel that powers an internal combustion engine.

For example, the typical four-cylinder engine of a conventional car comprises over a hundred moving parts. By comparison, the motor of the Tesla Roadster has just one: the rotor. So there’s less weight to drive around and fewer parts that could break or wear down over time.

But the comparison doesn’t end with the counting of moving parts. The engine and transmission of a conventional car also need lubricating oils, filters, coolant, clutches, spark plugs and wires, a PCV valve, oxygen sensors, a timing belt, a fan belt, a water pump and hoses, a catalytic converter, and a muffler — all items requiring service, and all items that aren’t needed in an electric car.

The car has only one drawback the cost around $200,000 but then again this is a high performance sports car whose competitors can cost twice that. It is the technology of zero emissions with good performance and good range along with a fast recharge that evokes images of the Wright Brothers. I have seen the future and if I had Bill Gates money I would be plowing it into this technology. For it is better to teach a man to fish than merely supply one.

The world’s demands for oil keep rising no matter what your political outlook no one can deny we wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to set up a democracy in Iraq if they didn’t have oil resources. The worldwide struggle for these resources grows greater by the day. No petroleum expert will argue that production will always exceed demand, do we wait for the well to run dry? Do we use our children fight wars to protect our share? Do we continue to off load tankers full of oil only to fill them back up with our dollars? To export our wealth to dictators tyrants and Sultans that we claim are our friends only because they have something we need.

We have the answer; we are Americans that is what we are good at, answers. We invent what we don’t have we always have. Why we would continue to send billions to country’s that don’t like us and we don’t really like them is insane. When you add to that our pollution problems, and the importing of foreign cars. You see this is an American car built in California and it sure would be fun to export millions of cars instead of importing them. I think if I were their marketing manager every Tesla would include a letter to OPEC that said you can Kiss my American Backside

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