roadster Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:35:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Detroit Electric SP:01 – The Fastest Production Electric Vehicle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detroit-electric-sp01-ev-20130405/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detroit-electric-sp01-ev-20130405/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:35:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35754 Detroit Electric has roots going back to the 1900s, and has just awoken from a long 80-year nap to reveal the fastest production electric vehicle, the Detroit Electric SP:01. Given the finicky market for electric vehicles, it seems that Detroit Electric did well in taking a long nap. A few other companies have tried to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detroit-electric-sp01-ev-20130405/feed/ 1 35754 Tesla Roadster’s New Gearbox Gives 10% more Miles/Charge https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-roadster-new-gearbox-20080913/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-roadster-new-gearbox-20080913/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:55:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=859 The Tesla Roadster just got better: its manufacturers equipped it with a new gearbox, a more efficient one, that has about 30% more torque on a single gear ratio and achieves 10% more mileage on average.

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