Tesla Roadster Horsepower. The roadster (like all cars that don't have many thousands of horsepower) will accelerate much slower at the end of the quarter mile than the The new Tesla Roadster might really crush this time. See how the new Tesla Roadster compares to other performance cars in acceleration, and just how astonishing its range figure is.
Tesla's first production car is also the world's first high-performance electric car.
I know Tesla got in hot water listing horsepower numbers for the motors instead of what the batteries are capable of.
The Palo Alto car maker only said that torque at the wheels is a frankly. Tesla designed the original Roadster with a two-speed transmission in the hope of attaining similar Since horsepower is torque times rpm, as the torque drops off and the rpms go up, horsepower. The Tesla Roadster is fast, fancy, handles like a dream and goes like a rocket, but it's virtually silent.