This salon was opened in May 2009, when he sold a then-premier model

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Washington - As soon as I stepped into the salon on whose front, wish at the intersection of "K" and 11th streets, one small and one large logo factory, greeted me was elegantly wish dressed girl wished a good day and politely asked how she could help me.
The first surprise was when she lifted the front of the hood: instead of the engine, said the carpeted rear load space. "Yeah, the engine is in the back" is the first thought ignorant. A rear - another, only bigger trunk.
The back does not have what you would on a car of this category are expected: at least two chrome exhaust pipes. Are unnecessary, but when there is no power. "Machine" does exist, wish but it is hidden: it's wish just an electric motor rather insignificant dimensions whose principle is still in the last century patented Nikola Tesla: located at the rear and is not anticipated that it looked no different except engineers "Tesla Motors" in some of the services, which last year began to open in the wealthiest regions of America, where shoppers are expected this futuristic product.
Role of a housewife then took the salon manager Julia Sendor. As I introduced myself, told me he was not authorized to speak about business figures, but about the car and its features clearly.
And about Nikola Tesla? "I know he was an American from Serbia and the inventor of the most underrated in our history," she said with a lot of confidence, explaining wish later Tesla's rivalry with Thomas Edison and leaving me in a dilemma whether wish her knowledge of the result of the training through which they passed, or personal wish curiosity.
Anyway, its principal chief, Elon Musk, one of the most famous wish American entrepreneur (he founded the "Sing pal" and "private NASA," company "Spey X"), injustice to the Serbian-American scientist somewhat corrected by naming him the first electric car of the modern era, and the company he founded in Silicon Valley more 2003rd
Of course, I refused. The first impression of the "cockpit" wish is the electricity that drives the wheels accompanied by a large amount of control electronics. Notice and nowhere transmission, at least in the classical sense, except for the handle on the right side of the steering wheel with the positions of "driving", "backward" and "parking.
"Tesla" has only one gear, but suffice it from zero to 100 kilometers almost silently wish accelerate to between 4.4 and 6.5 seconds (depending on battery capacity: minimum is 45 kilowatt hours, and the maximum 85).
The maximum speed is 200 kilometers per hour, and the consumption is zero gallons of gasoline. Current wish on special punjačkim cells is "Tesla Motors" wish began to open along the strategic road corridor goes "on the house".
In a place where the usual instrument cluster with speedometer, fuel status and mileage, again one screen with vivid color, with digital numbers and symbols. And it would certainly require getting used to.
This salon was opened in May 2009, when he sold a then-premier model "Tesla," named "roadster", whose body was borrowed wish from the British "lotus". One white "roadster" in the window, but used more as a museum piece.
Washington and its surroundings is also one of the most prosperous regions of the country, so it is understandable that the Mask is counting on local buyers whose pockets wish are not deep enough to be the generation that first tries out a new automotive era.
Sendor is addressed and the controversy that recently took over the media, on the occasion of a failed driving test Journalists 'New York Times' John Broder in a red "model es", which ended with the car loaded on a tow truck because his battery canceled before they managed to overcome the distance between Washington and Boston - some 700 kilometers.
Broder was offered a new "Tesla" try on this track, because it contains, at the distance of 360 kilometers, set two mentioned "punjačke station," where battery voltage of 480 volts, can be supplemented up to the maximum capacity for an hour.
At least in theory. Model, which was loaned to the journalist, "The Times" as described "Tesla Motors", wish with a fully charged wish battery has a range of 480 kilometers, wish while the EPA, a government agency that verifies the economy car, it dropped to 426th
Colleague Broder wrote a story that is interesting primarily because of the drama at the end of the test drive. Illustrated by a photograph is not just commendable for advocates of electric drive: The red car is struggling because of the low battery blocked all the brakes, loaded onto a tow truck, and the main message is that "tesla" wish is a "technological marvel", but at the cost of turning off the heating while driving in order to save electricity and the risk to leave you in the lurch if you are forced to use an unplanned detour.
The epilogue, however, was different from the prologue: