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If fuel cells were viable right now to provide the juice and the range. Maybe in the future.


I really like this vehicle. For the majority of Americans that commute to and from work every day, and electric car that can go up to 250 miles on a charge would work great! Heck, I commute about 5 miles every day, 10 or so if I go out for lunch. I could go two weeks on a charge. A month would only cost me a couple bucks to charge it.

I think this is the beginning of interesting things. Tesla is working on a sedan currently. I think I've read that if the Roadster sells well, production costs could go down, and the cost of the car will go way down.

Although, to satisfy people that think they need range, and don't want to be tethered by plugging it in often, Tesla should do what Burt Rutan suggested: A hybrid. But not the way hybrids work today - the opposite. All of the motive power would be electric, but the vehicle would also have a ~17hp generator that could run off of gas/diesel/e85, etc etc, with about a 7 gallon tank, and it could stretch the range to near 1000 miles.