2009 Tesla Roadster pricing increased

Even for those who have paid a $50,000 initial deposit previously must dig deeper into their pockets as Tesla decides to up the original price of all its Roadsters by at least $6,700 pointing to its survival as the reason for the move.

The Tesla Roadster was initially priced at $92,000 in 2008 and has been bumped to $109,000 in this present year. Tesla is basically asking customers to pay for features that were originally included as standard in the car. The spokeswoman for Tesla said that for customers who would want to receive the car in its original price tag would do so minus a few features of which one of these include a high-power connector that charges the Roadster’s batteries in just a little over three hours.
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veyron1001 - 1/24/2009 10:30:50 AM

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Its the price you pay when you are an ecofag but still want to look cool.

neutral - 1/25/2009 6:11:30 PM

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Last I checked it was a free country (even though not for long), so say what you want (before the liberals make saying mean things illegal).

neutral - 1/25/2009 6:20:58 PM

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Like I state below, Fisker needs to team up with another mainstream OEM. They thought they were going to show Detroit how to build cars and it turns out, they had no idea what they were doing. To get your foot in the door, the cars alone can't suffice, you need decades of industrial backing (like GM/Toyota/Ford/etc) to develop a new, "outside the box" car like Tesla's.

Type707 - 1/24/2009 3:46:17 PM

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I'd rather get the Fisker. Its a few thousands less than the Tesla

neutral - 1/25/2009 6:26:26 PM

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Its a new technology that is for all intensive purposes, un-tested and un-tried. These aren't the tinkering, free-for-all days of Henry Ford, this stuff is expensive when you take everything into account.

neutral - 1/25/2009 6:15:31 PM

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WAIT JUST A MINUTE.... we've been told by the media & Michael Moore's degenerate ass that "everyone" wants electric cars and hybrids and the reason why Detroit was having hard times right now was because they didn't have electric cars. all I have to say is HA!

In all due fairness though, Tesla should pull its noses out of the air and team up with Ford or someone (Fisker is already teamed with GM). It would allow Tesla access to Ford's vast engineering resources for a damn good price. The costs of developing your own automobile, essentially from scratch is astonomical. Why do that when you could get all the technology and experience for rock-bottom prices (like Fisker)?

3pointstar - 1/25/2009 6:30:59 PM

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TESLA is dead. Especially with oil as cheap as it is today, that's as ridiculous as having a new home builder hit me up for more money in today's housing market. I would as for a refund and walk away. TESLA's mistake is they came out with too specialized a niche with the roadster instead of a sedan. Who the hell would buy a TESLA that seats only 2 and is based on a Lotus Elise with a cheap looking plastic interior. I'd rather have a FISKER KARMA sedan for $20K less and have enough room for 4.

neutral - 1/25/2009 7:03:53 PM

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The biggest problem for Tesla is that they have no backup for their electric batteries, where Fisker has the 2.0L turbo-DI Ecotec engine. I don't care how great a battery someone has, with a 120/240V outlet, the amount of current required to charge a large battery is massive. Without specialized charging stations that deliver, for example, 1000volts to minimize current flow, the reality of electric cars is that "fueling" will be their achilles' heel. Hydrogen could prove to be the solution, but society is YEARS away from an economical hydrogen econoomy with solid-state (probably metal-hydride) hydrogen storage.

thstone - 1/26/2009 4:49:51 PM

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Let's face it, the TESLA was a unique show(off) vehicle - Look at my plug in electric car! The problem is that TESLA missed the 24 month market window that they had (mid-08 to mid-10) before the Volt hits the streets and any green yahoo will be able to buy an electric car for one-third the price.