A friend of mine came by to show me this electric sports car. The Tesla Roadster can do 0-100 km/h in about 4 seconds. The strange thing is that you do not hear any roar, just the spinning of the electric motor.
The Tesla factory recommends the driver to do the following with unsuspecting passengers:
cruise at a slow pace and ask your passenger to turn on the radio. When the passenger makes his/her attempt, floor the pedal to accelerate. The passenger will not be able to to turn on the radio because he/she cannot move forward enough and will be distracted with something else…
I like the electric cable in the trunk which is used to charge the car. Charging an empty battery takes about eight hours from a normal 220V socket in the Netherlands.
Some photographic details:
All photos were taken with the Canon 10-22mm lens. While this lens makes great shots, this is not your first choice when you want to make car photos with little distortion. Distortion free photos start around 20mm, so my Canon 17-55mm lens is more suitable for that type of work.
However, 10mm is ideal to get the driver and the dashboard at the same time in the photo while sitting inside the car (doing 120 km/h):
On the ‘full body shots’ did you notice you can see right through the windshield? (scroll back to see what I mean). In order to see through the windshield you need a polarizing filter which cuts out the glare.
Some detail shots:
looks cool!
ReplyDeleteSo this is what the feature looks like!
Cars with no sound huh. People at my faculty are already designing sound machines for electric cars, because cars without a sound ought to be dangerous.
Nice detail on the second picture:
ReplyDeleteto park it next to a "grofvuil" tile :-)
Hello Richard:
ReplyDeleteYou spotted it!
It was by accident, I saw it later on the photos myself.