Tesla makes the electric family car a reality

Tesla Model S - no oil here!

Tesla Model S - an electric car for all families

I was reading a couple of weeks back that Tesla have a new electric car for the family, in the form of the Tesla Model S. Perhaps a little more under powered than the Tesla Roadster they certainly are tackling it the right way with a 45 minute recharge and range of up to 450+ kilometres. Initial design and development went into the Roadster and sold at a prestige price to help build their business and develop their technologies even further so that they may build and sell more electric cars to a larger audience at gradually more realistic prices.  The number of sales locations are definitely increasing and with electric cars that look as good as these, and peform as well, if not better than your traditional oil burner, who wouldn’t want one.

Is humanity finally changing it’s ways?

Two articles in the news recently have inspired a bit of hope for the direction of humanity. Mr Rudd has announced that Australia will soon be the home of the largest solar powered electricity generator in the world and Obama is finally going to regulate probably the worlds biggest consumer of oil (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6317920.ece) for the first time in history. Whilst writing this article I was trying to find the page on the Australian Government website and discovered that Arizona is also inspiring to have the world’s largest power plant. This has got to be good news right? Competition for the worlds largest solar power plant?

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/25/world%E2%80%99s-largest-solar-power-plant-coming-to-arizona-in-2011/ @280 megawatts
http://www.pm.gov.au/media/Interview/2009/interview_1000.cfm @1000 megawatts

Bring it on….