# Tesla?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** tesla, roadster\
**Created:** [October 5, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613 "2009-10-05T05:58:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![turtle34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@turtle34](https://community.cartalk.com/u/turtle34)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/1 "2009-10-05T05:58:36Z")

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Is this a real car?

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**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/2 "2009-10-05T10:49:57Z")

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It is very real. For now it is also beyond the means of average folk.

Why all the the question marks??? Despite the legend perfectly viable electric vehicles are perfectly possible - in a purely technological sense.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/3 "2009-10-05T10:51:54Z")

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Take a look at [http://www.teslamotors.com/](http://www.teslamotors.com/) in order to see the company’s website.  
Google is your friend.

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**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/4 "2009-10-05T21:44:45Z")

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nope, not real at all. 😛

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**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/5 "2009-10-06T05:25:06Z")

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It’s too much reality for me. You should have seen the wind-up taxi cabs in Thailand. I saw a picture of one. Cute.

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**Author:** ![Ranck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Ranck](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ranck)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/6 "2009-10-06T18:14:29Z")

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I actually saw one in a parking lot at a shopping center in Virginia. Although I did not actually touch it, I’m firmly convinced it was not an illusion or hallucination.

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/7 "2009-10-06T20:16:40Z")

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I have a colleague whose daughter works for Tesla. She has a real job and it is a real car.

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**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tesla/37613/8 "2009-10-06T21:52:51Z")

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Even still, if I had a Tesla car, I could not go to Albuquerque and back for a day of doctor visit, shopping, concert, and dinner.

The technology still has a little ways to go yet for a day’s worth of driving. ( 100 more miles range at least )

( Albuquerque is a 280 mile round trip, and that’s just staight over and back, not allowing for the miles of in-town driving when we get there.)