Originally Posted by Yahoo Autos

The road is coming to an end for the Tesla Roadster.

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Automaker Tesla Motors (TSLA) will stop taking orders for the car in the U.S. in about two months as the carmaker focuses on its Model S electric sedan.

Priced around $109,000 dollars, the two seat Tesla Roadster sports car was never intended to be a huge seller. Tesla reported sales of 1,650 Roadsters worldwide by the end of April, 2011. The car is sold in North America, Europe and Asia.

With its performance and relatively long driving range, the Tesla Roadster helped change the perception of electric cars from being little more than golf carts with doors to actual viable production vehicles.

The Roadster can go from zero to sixty miles per hours in under four seconds, according to Tesla, and can travel about 250 miles on a charge.

Former General Motors (GM) vice chairman Bob Lutz has credited it with helping to spur GM's development of the RAV4 SUV and a deal with Daimler (DDAIF) to provide batteries for an electric version of the Smart ForTwo minicar.

The Model S sedan will be built in a California factory that was once used jointly by Toyota and GM.

Originally Posted by serialk11r (Post 48304)

Wait 1650? Holy crap I know there are at least 4 in my town. Well we are hippie central so I guess that makes sense.

Originally Posted by serialk11r (Post 48342)

Yep, different lights, completely quiet no sound. And the Tesla logo. We have lots of Elises too lol. Rich place, lots of that stuff.

Speaking of which, I saw my friend's photo of some car in his school parking lot (high school) in Vancouver. Some parent bought their freakin kid an Aston Martin DB9...dayum. Sorry for the derail attempt.