Electric sports cars actually looking cool

For a long time I thought electric cars or fuel efficient hybrid cars were too wimpy in performance and unsexy in style. They just didn't look cool enough to me. But check out the electric sports car below. Sweeeeeet! The Tesla Roadster can go 225 miles in one charge. But what I'd like to know is, how fast is 0 to 60? The car goes from 0 to 60 mph in just under four seconds and tops out at 125 mph.

"Accelerate pretty good? I call it a turbine sound," he said of the sound. "Because it's an electric motor, it's got 100 percent torque all the time. So it just pulls you like when you're taking off in an airplane." It can be fully recharged in 3½ hours, which Tesla officials say should allow most people to drive it to work and back and recharge it at night like a cell phone.

Driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco, however, would require stopping in, say, Fresno and plugging its adapter cord into a motel room wall socket.

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