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The Tesla Roadster sounds alot like big on promises, short on deliveries. Anybody who's plunked their money down (the full amount, btw) is a sucker in my opinion. This vehicle hasn't been crash tested. A 250 mile range (their website says 200) sounds very optimistic. Three-hour charge times are impractical by any stretch. It doesn't help that no journalist has been allowed to even drive the car, or that delivery of these cars has been pushed back to the summer of 2008 (the first owners should've been taking delivery of them by now).
This car could be worth it's weight in gold if it could even demonstrate that it can go 250 miles on a single charge. But then again, if the technology for this to happen did exist, we would've seen it on hybrids by now. After all, every car company is on the hunt for this holy grail of battery technology.
I see no future in electric cars beyond becoming expensive toys.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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