This need not be — they’re only slow because most people want to extend range. So there certainly can be an electric sports car.

Check out this electric dragster… 1,400 amps (!) able to pull 3.6 G’s (!).

http://tinyurl.com/ysdofn

It uses standard lead-acid batters but I love this quote: “Our power drain is so severe that we have exploded numerous batteries on discharge,” says Bieschke.

#4. It is tough to see the Big Corporate money killing the EV in this case, since, as others noted, American car companies are either on their backs, gasping for air or were on the brink of destruction until very recently.

I think it should be law that all car manufacturers produce Electric Cars. Get the R&D going, get the prototypes tested, make the electric car video podcasts shown.

Electric cars should become law. We want it, it works, give it to us.

Simply letting capitalism and demand drive the R&D, tests and release of clean car energy isn’t going to work. Cause OIL companies aren’t going to let go of their mega-profits, they have been blocking clean renewable energies cause with lots of money and power, you simply can block such things as development of new infrastructure for clean car mass production.

400 workers in a factory in USA is nice, but we need hundreds of thousands of workers producing these all over the world, and fast. Thanks.

James — take a look at prices for cars comparable to the Tesla roadster. Folks who buy XJR Jags are right in the ballpark — except the Tesla will leave the Jag in the dust!

I wonder what the net energy and pollution costs will be on this thing, compared to net for a high-efficiency gas or diesel engine vehicle. That means including cost of producing the energy as well as cost of using it.

Now if it could only plug itself in… and drive me home after drinking; and run my errands.