Tesla Roadster

History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Tesla Roadster (2008) page on 4 March 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) sports car that was produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) in California from 2008 to 2012. The Roadster was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 320 kilometres (200 mi) per charge. It is also the first production car to be launched into space, carried by a Falcon Heavy rocket in a test flight on February 6, 2018.

Tesla sold about 2,450 Roadsters in over 30 countries, and most of the last Roadsters were sold in Europe and Asia during the fourth quarter of 2012. Tesla produced right-hand-drive Roadsters from early 2010. The Roadster qualified for government incentives in several nations.

The world distance record of 501 km (311 mi) for a production electric car on a single charge was set by a Roadster on October 27, 2009, during the Global Green Challenge in outback Australia, in which it averaged a speed of 40 km/h (25 mph). In March 2010, a Tesla Roadster became the first electric vehicle to win the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally and the first to win any Federation Internationale de l'Automobile-sanctioned championship when a Roadster driven by former Formula One driver Érik Comas beat 96 competitors for range, efficiency and performance in the three-day, nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) challenge.

According to the U.S. EPA, the Roadster can travel 393 kilometres (244 mi) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack, and can accelerate from 0 to 97 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in 3.7 or 3.9 seconds depending on the model. It has a top speed of 201 km/h (125 mph). The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008, was reported as 120 MPGe (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 Wh/km (21.7 kW·h/100 mi, 13.5 kW·h/100 km or 490 kJ/km) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 88% on average.

Multimedia

Documents

Date	Document Name & Details	Documents
1 October 2010	Tesla Recall Bulletin: 12v Auxiliary Cable Containment Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 752KB - 10 pages
1 October 2010	NHTSA Recall 10V458000 2010 Tesla Roadster National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	Recall Page - 1 page
1 October 2010	Part 573 Defect Information Report To: Daniel C. Smith, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration From: James C. Chen, Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 492KB - 3 pages
7 October 2010	12V Auxiliary Cable Containment To: James C. Chen, Tesla Motors, Inc. From: Jennifer Timian, National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationNHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 28KB - 3 pages
7 October 2010	NHTSA Recall Code: 10V‐458 Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 62KB - 2 pages
5 January 2011	Equipment Safety Recall Quarterly Report Information Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 62KB - 1 page
7 April 2011	Equipment Safety Recall Quarterly Report Information Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 55KB - 1 page
5 July 2011	Equipment Safety Recall Quarterly Report Information Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 12KB - 1 page
12 October 2011	Equipment Safety Recall Quarterly Report Information Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 12KB - 1 page
5 January 2012	Equipment Safety Recall Quarterly Report Information Tesla Motors, Inc. NHTSA Recall 10V458000	PDF - 12KB - 1 page

Article Index

Date	Article	Author/Source
20 March 2008	Elektro-Flitzer Tesla Roadster 2008 geht in die Serienproduktion	Wikinews
17 July 2008	Erste Elektroautos vom Typ Tesla Roadster ausgeliefert	Wikinews
5 August 2008	Energy Costs of Driving Electric Cars	Klaus H. Hemsath
15 August 2008	Tesla Motors liefert Roadster ab Mai 2009 nach Europa	Wikinews
23 March 2010	Not Your Father's Electric Car	Rebecca Ward, VOA News
8 June 2011	Tesla Motors, Inc.; Receipt of Petition for Renewal of Temporary Exemption from the Advanced Air Bag Requirements of FMVSS No. 208	Federal Register: NHTSA (Christopher J. Bonanti)
5 August 2011	Tesla Motors, Inc.; Receipt of Petition for Temporary Exemption From the Electronic Stability Control Requirements of FMVSS No. 126	Federal Register: NHTSA (Christopher J. Bonanti)
24 June 2015	Tesla Motors, Inc., Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance	Federal Register: NHTSA (Jeffrey Giuseppe)
11 February 2016	Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla), Grant of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance	Federal Register: NHTSA (Jeffrey M. Giuseppe)
7 February 2018	SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts Elon Musk's personal Tesla into solar orbit	Wikinews

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