| 17 Oct 2009 |
I have had the chance to testride the tesla in Munich last week at the eCarTech Fair on the passenger seat. There is not much to say about it, because most of us know most of what is to know about the tesla roadster through the internet. Except one single thing: The pressure, the weight of your body against the seat at the short time of acceleration from zero to 100 and further up the scale. I habe been watching the project and its people since late 2007. I have seen the prototypes roll through youtube and the first 5 from serial production travel in packs. I have seen races against this and that, burnouts, sprints, crash tests. You name it. And as you have seen in my last blog entry, I can even count to four.
I hopped in and saw everything I expected to see. Even the sound at startup was not new to me (about 4 seconds after the driver turned the key). We silently rolled out of the parking lot and onto the street. You feel the street quite directly under your seat. The roadster is a true sportscar. Then the driver put the acceleration pedal down and something very new happened to me: I held my breath to build up pressure in my lungs in order to give resistance to the uncountable Newtons which squeezed me into the seat. I reached out and clung my hand to the door handle to stabilize myself. Wow. One two three four seconds and the speedometer was at 100 km/h and continued to raise in a straight line. at 150 the driver let go of it and the velocity came down again. This is impressive. Very well done guys. Great work. This is the benchmark for everybody who wants to be successful in eletric cars. Tesla rocks. Really. |
