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All-electric Tesla Roadster is to
a luxury zero-emissions stablem
T
HE makers of an all-electric
passenger luxu
supercar have reveled plans
powered by a li
for a battery-powered luxury
pack. It is expe
saloon. US makers Tesla, who
around $60,000
launched their Roadster – pictured
about 240 miles
here – in 2006, say the first of the
exceptional per
new electric-powered saloons
Established in
should roll off the production line
Silicon Valley, T
at a custom-built factory in 2010.
ramp up produc
Model S, a zero-emission, five-
their first car, to
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