"If you are a petrol-head and a daily follower of our site, you may have heard of Tesla Motors, a company based in Silicon Valley, which is selling a Lotus Elise-based Roadster; the world’s first pure-electric production sports car and a combination of lightweight engineering; a massive set of batteries in the back, and one single electric engine propelling you forward. So does this mixture of futuristic travel prove that you do not have to go slow to go green? We had to find out!

Named after 19th- and early-20th-century electrical über-inventor Nikola Tesla the car was officially unveiled to the public on July 19, 2006, in Santa Monica, California. The first vehicle was delivered to Elon Musk, Tesla co-founder, chairman, and inventor of PayPal, in February of 2008. Over the past few years the vehicle has gone from being a concept to being part of a line-up with several production variants.

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In July 2009, the 2010 model rolled of the production line. Simultaneously they came up with the Roadster Sport. The Sport version accelerates from 0-60mph in a quite literally electrifying 3.7 seconds, compared to 3.9 seconds for the standard Roadster. The Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 is the latest addition to the line-up. In addition to the 2010 changes such as the upgraded interior with push-button gear control, exterior carbon fiber refinements and a glove box wrapped in leather you also get a new front fascia, rear diffuser, improved seat comfort, sound dampening, and an optional large touch screen navigation system with back-up camera."

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