The Tesla Model S electric car lacks any distinctive characteristic - no obvious connection charge, for example - it is intended , The five-door Sedan Signature Series, which began providing heavily subsidized Tesla Motors in small quantities on 22 June sees more conventionally in the same direction as appealing last Jaguars and Audis.
It has a long and low hood, man's attitude to 21-inch wheels and sweeping fastback to subtle spoiler at the rear high. If this is too outstanding, without hint of self-obviousness of General Motors EV1, for example, which is shame.
We do not want to scare people from the reservation, the smartly dressed design chief Franz von said during our visit. As we strengthen the mind-set of Tesla as brand, we can be more playful. With reference to the bizarre tricycle that carried out more recently the torch for battery-powered electric cars, he added, The Apteral route is challenging way to go, right out of the box.
Besides all this there is the fact that the Model S, with its anachronistic simple nomenclature is now in the hands of customers , The festive day that began with factory tour and short drives to reporters ended with the surrender of electronic keys to five buyers. Starry-eyed at the prospect of the first Model S shareholders had in their chapters of the Sierra Club, they are placed deposits of $ 40,000 and was waiting for her signature models at a price of $ 97,900.
Were given eight minutes behind the wheel of test car to find out. Touching the door handle in-depth, we observed it to be automatically extended for use. Of get goose bumps bumpy, said later, when we commented on this new product. Drag this handle; we slipped into our red car, inhaling the rich aroma of leather upholstery and given the low seating position.
We stared at the all-powerful feature, namely the shiny, sports-bar-sized central touch screen, the more graphics modes than mages have hats and rabbits. The driver's instrument display will flash and also took us to ogle. There are no borders,meters, indicators, instruments, or needles. Watchmaker Edmond Jaeger would weep at the sight.
Awakened by tap on the brake pedal, the Model S crept forward after slight train at the columns mounted drive selector , For lack of transmission tunnel, the car offers instead long shallow dish that easily accepted camera .
With the 85 kW-hour battery with more than 7000 cells, is the signature performance model capable of 300 miles at 55 miles per hour and 0 to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds while turning on the access road between the factory and the Interstate 880 inspired, and we quickly found ourselves at 80 miles per hour.
Slowing down for left sweeper, we listened to our passengers, Tesla employee, praising the lack of body roll, which he at the low center of gravity, which attributed byproduct of the huge battery.
Traubel would say later that it is heavier than the 992-pound pack in the Tesla Roadster is Honestly, we did not notice anything unusual about the bends in comparison to, say, an Audi A7 or Frisker Karma but the most obvious feature is calibrated to recover the aggressive energy that lifted again chewing on the road, quickly the car slowed down as fast as our right foot. The other great revelation had come at an earlier demonstration round, when we sat comfortably in the back and listened to the whining of the rear-mounted power inverter. But other impressions of this vast car can be returned only after lengthy trial.
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