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This article was published 07/01/2011 (5434 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
KEITH Bilous is about to realize a boyhood dream of owning a cool sports car — and not just any sports car, but the all-electric Tesla Roadster.
“It’s electric — no gas, no emissions. It’s just amazing,” Bilous said. “It’s the future.”
Thanks to the pioneering work of Toyota and Honda on their hybrids, electric vehicles have a stodgy, cookie-cutter appearance. Even Nissan’s Leaf, a true all-electric, does not have a wow factor.
The Tesla Roadster is not Detroit’s electric car. The Leaf has an estimated range of 160 kilometres on a single charge and a top speed of 140 kilometres per hour, but the Tesla Roadster can travel 394 kilometres on a three-hour charge and has a top speed of about 200 km/h.
The Tesla can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 3.6 seconds.
“That’s awesome,” Bilous said. “I was in Toronto a couple of weeks ago and I went for a test drive and it was just amazing.”
Bilous is CEO of his own company, ICUC Moderation Services, which moderates online content for some impressive clients, including Starbucks, Chevron, Calvin Klein, Intel, CBC and the Globe and Mail.
He’s an excitable young man and he’s revved up about the Roadster.
“When you put your foot on the accelerator, you go. It’s like an elevator — you push up, it goes. There’s no lag. It just goes.”
Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of Silicon Valley, Calif., engineers. The first model, the Roadster, began selling in 2008 and about 1,500 have been sold since in 25 different countries. Bilous’ orange roadster will be the first one in Manitoba.
“I’m inspired by the fact they said they could build an electric car better than (anyone else) and it’s a beautiful looking car and it’s fast and it’s sexy,” he said.
He will get his Roadster March 1 to celebrate his 39th birthday.
aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca