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Tesla Roadster wins design award

Tesla Roadster wins design award

Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 1st, 2007 Viknesh Vijayenthiran By Viknesh Vijayenthiran Author August 1st, 2007
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December 31st, 1969 Tesla’s electric sports car has taken top honors in the Gold International Design Excellence Awards voted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek. The Roadster was chosen for its mix of innovation, environmental care and style, characterizing all the aspects people would like to see in new cars, explained one of the judges. The Roadster was competing in a field of 595 entrants from 29 countries as well as an additional 1,096 entries from the US alone. Eco-friendly technologies did the best this year with 13 winners out of the 81 different categories having an eco-design focus. Close behind the Tesla was a hydrogen-fueled toy car that was created by Shanghai’s Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. We’ve always loved the Tesla Roadster, and with 560 firm orders placed for the exclusive car we suspect many of you do too.
Tesla Roadster wins design award

Tesla Roadster wins design award

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Tesla’s electric sports car has taken top honors in the Gold International Design Excellence Awards voted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek. The Roadster was chosen for its mix of innovation, environmental care and style, characterizing all the aspects people would like to see in new cars, explained one of the judges.

The Roadster was competing in a field of 595 entrants from 29 countries as well as an additional 1,096 entries from the US alone. Eco-friendly technologies did the best this year with 13 winners out of the 81 different categories having an eco-design focus.

Close behind the Tesla was a hydrogen-fueled toy car that was created by Shanghai’s Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. We’ve always loved the Tesla Roadster, and with 560 firm orders placed for the exclusive car we suspect many of you do too.

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Posted in: 2007, Tesla, News, Hybrid, Roadster


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  1. By meh #1, Posted: 8/1/2007

    I really don't understand all the fuss about this car. Same chassis (more or less) as the Lotus Elise, with the same performance figures (again, more or less), slower top speed, all the same impracticalities (tight, rough suspension, tiny tiny cockpit), plus the impracticalities of having a 200 mile limited range, all for more than double the cost of the $40,000 Elise.

    Why?

    If you want to be that green, buy the Elise, and buy yourself a set of solar panels or something more beneficial with the extra $60,000.

    It's great that it's helping to move electric car technology forwards, but it should be recognized that that's all it's doing; it's certainly not worth the money for what it does.

  2. By MARIO #2, Posted: 8/1/2007

    ooooh, it's worth it... This car is great, and is named Tesla, after one of the greatest inventors in the history of our civilisation...

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