Step On The Battery

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05:34 | Catherine Girardeau | Oct 31st, 2006 8:16am |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, at a fuel cost of less than a penny per mile. Sound too good to be true? It gets better — the dream car we’re talking about is a zero-emissions sports car that runs on the kind of battery technology most of us have in our cell phones. Seven-thousand lithium-ion cells power the Tesla Roadster, a sexy electric two-seater due on the roads in model year 2007. Martin Eberhard is CEO and visionary behind San Carlos-based Tesla Motors. He spoke with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau at the Women in Technology conference.

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Tags: Tesla Roadster, Martin Eberhard

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October 31st, 2006 at 10:26 am

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Nicki Dugan:
November 1st, 2006 at 10:31 am

Martin’s my hero. He recently came to talk at Yahoo! and brought his shiny red car. You’d have thought a naked woman was in our parking lot. I just posted a video interview with did with him on our corporate blog (scroll to the bottom). Good news is they’re releasing a sport sedan in 2009 for less than $50K. I’m saving up for a garage.