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The most successful model in the Tesla range, the Roadster is logically the most expensive. So, the basic version will be sold $ 200,000 off options, and claims a $ 50,000 reservation check. And the launch edition called Founders Series, limited to one thousand copies is proposed against £ 250,000, to pay right away. And it could deliver even better performance than the version described by Elon Musk during its presentation. What largely relativize the bill, models with such a pedigree usually negotiating ten times more expensive! More affordable, the Polestar 1 is also less powerful.
Tesla’s story began with a sportswoman. The Roadster , taking the chassis of a Lotus Elise, was indeed used to boot the machine. The revenues generated by this model have financed the development of the Model S. But it is also the presentation of a prototype lithium batteries on the basis of the AC Propulsion Tzero that convinced Elon Musk to risk his funds in the Tesla adventure, initiated by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

But since 2012, Tesla has preferred to refocus on the models of greater diffusion , while the contract with Lotus expired. The enthusiasm of the first owners and the lack of competition eventually convinced Tesla to design a second generation. It was this car that was presented by surprise , along with the Tesla Semi truck , at a conference where Elon Musk was welcomed as a rockstar by a delirious public.
It is by the laconic but striking list of technical features that Elon Musk presented the prototype of this Roadster, promised for 2020. Tesla’s simple ambition is to make it the fastest car in the world. The acceleration from 0 to 60 mph (96 km / h) is in 1.9 seconds, what to expect a 0 to 100 km / h in 2 seconds . And the bar of 100 mph (160 km / h) is crossed in 4.2 seconds. As for the quarter-mile (400 m), standard meter of automotive performance across the Atlantic, it is covered in just 8.8 seconds. The records of the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon at 2.3 seconds, 5.1 seconds and 9.65 seconds respectively are beaten.

If we waited for Tesla on the ground of acceleration, its ability to shine with an impressive top speed was far less secure. Still, Elon Musk announces 250 mph, or 400 km / h ! What tickle the Bugatti Chiron and Koenigsegg Regera . It remains to know the real endurance performance of this new Tesla Roadster. So far indeed, the cars of the Californian brand, even in their most powerful versions, can only use their full capacity for a few tens of seconds. We have shown it in our tests of Model S and Model X. Beyond that, the battery lowers its performance so as not to deteriorate, to the point that it is for example impossible to complete a tour of the Nurbürgring. Let’s hope the Roadster remedies this problem.