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This is the first road-legal customer Tesla Roadster Sport to be delivered in Australia. It’s been a long hard struggle for Simon Hackett to get this baby on the road, now that it’s here you can expect to see – but not hear – it cruising Adelaide streets and going for sporty runs through the hills.

The official press release goes out tomorrow, but expect these cars to set you back over $200k.

More pics and discussion in the Australian Tesla Roadster forums.

Tesla Roadster Sport – at Crowne Plaza in Adelaide’s Hindmarsh Square

Tesla Roadster Sport – front

Simon Hackett with his Tesla Roadster Sport at Internode

Tesla Roadster Sport – side

Tesla Roadster Sport at Internode (and Griffin’s Head Hotel)

Discussion in the Australian Tesla forums:
http://aussieexotics.com/forum/cars/tesla-roadster-electric-car-in-australia-t2737.0.html;msg62622#msg62622

Tesla electrifies

By Mark Hinchliffe – The Courier-Mail

THE future of motoring is quiet, powerful and electrifying, according to Tesla.

The world’s fastest electric car rolled into Brisbane for the second annual Greenfest last weekend and the Tesla Roadster was also put through its paces at Queensland Raceway where the V8 Supercars usually roar.

Discussion in the Australian sports car forums:
http://aussieexotics.com/forum/cars/tesla-roadster-electric-car-in-australia-t2737.0.html;msg62469#msg62469

New York (NY) – Tesla said it has just delivered the 500th unit of its Lotus Elise-based all-electric Roadster.

The 500th Roadster went to Martin Tuchman, former chairman and CEO of Interpool, and chairman of The Tuchman Foundation and a board member of The Parkinson’s Alliance and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Tuchman said he plans to charge his Roadster partly with solar energy thanks to photovoltaic panels he helped install throughout his hometown of Kingston, NJ.