Right Lane Cruiser
03-23-2009, 07:12 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg "Everyone is saying they're going to add electricity in some way, shape, or form." (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090323_Sparking_back_to_life.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/teslaroadsterontheroad.jpgSandy Bauers - The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/) - Mar. 23, 2009
Boy wouldn't we all like to drive on electricity alone? --Ed.
On a warm day with the top down, Steven Mortazavi was breezing along West River Drive when his eyes locked on the rearview mirror.
A Philly police car was on his tail. Mortazavi wasn't speeding, but the cop followed him into a parking lot, paused behind him, and then - whew! - moved on.
"He is so dying to give me a ticket," said Mortazavi, an Allentown pain-management physician.
It had to be the car: Bright red. Sleek and curvy. Built for speed, it can accelerate from zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds and top out at 125 miles an hour.
All on an electric motor.
And all for, oh, $109,000.
Mortazavi came to Philadelphia this month to test-drive a Tesla, the Silicon Valley sports car that may well be the first production electric car to not just get onto U.S. highways, but stay there.
The nation has been down this road before, as explored in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
But now it's being reborn, in a dozen ways. Virtually every major auto manufacturer has a version in the pipeline.
Proponents see electric vehicles as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on... http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090323_Sparking_back_to_life.html
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/teslaroadsterontheroad.jpgSandy Bauers - The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/) - Mar. 23, 2009
Boy wouldn't we all like to drive on electricity alone? --Ed.
On a warm day with the top down, Steven Mortazavi was breezing along West River Drive when his eyes locked on the rearview mirror.
A Philly police car was on his tail. Mortazavi wasn't speeding, but the cop followed him into a parking lot, paused behind him, and then - whew! - moved on.
"He is so dying to give me a ticket," said Mortazavi, an Allentown pain-management physician.
It had to be the car: Bright red. Sleek and curvy. Built for speed, it can accelerate from zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds and top out at 125 miles an hour.
All on an electric motor.
And all for, oh, $109,000.
Mortazavi came to Philadelphia this month to test-drive a Tesla, the Silicon Valley sports car that may well be the first production electric car to not just get onto U.S. highways, but stay there.
The nation has been down this road before, as explored in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
But now it's being reborn, in a dozen ways. Virtually every major auto manufacturer has a version in the pipeline.
Proponents see electric vehicles as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on... http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090323_Sparking_back_to_life.html