Rohit Rathi

TESLA ROADSTER
Agenda

 Introduction
 Tesla Roadster
PETROLEUM WILL NOT LAST FOREVER

CLEAN ENERGY IS THE FUTURE

BOLD ACTION
Introduction

Tesla Motors Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs,

manufactures and sells electric vehicles.

Tesla Motors was incorporated in Delaware on July 1, 2003 by Martin

Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning

Tesla is named after electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla.

Tesla Motors' first production vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, is an all-electric

sports car
Roadster
Roadster

 Prototypes were introduced to the public in July 2006

 Uses lithium-ion battery cells
 The car has a range of 236 miles (380 km) per charge
  On Oct. 27, 2009, the Roadster set a new world
record when customer Simon Hackett drove the
entire 313-mile (504 km) segment of Australia's
annual Global Green Challenge on a single charge
  A top speed of 125 mph (201 km/h)*
 The base price of the car is US$109,000,€84,000
or GB£87,945
Roadster

 “Best Inventions 2006—Transportation

Invention" award from Time Magazine
 The cost of powering the Roadster is
estimated at US$0.02 per mile, compared
with roughly US$0.25 per mile for a
comparable sports car.
 The car can also be charged partly or fully
from renewable energy sources, including
solar, hydro, or wind power.