'60 Minutes': First electric sports car Video
'60 Minutes': First electric sports car Video Transcript
>> This is the first all electric sports car, the Roadster, made by Tesla Motors, a small start-up in Northern California.
>> Yeah, you can score it. No problem, it will be fun.
>> Alright, here I go. Are you ready? ^M00:00:12 [ Car speeding ] ^M00:00:13
>> The Chairman of Tesla, Elon Musk says the Roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. It's propelled by more than 6,000 finger-size laptop batteries and not a single drop of oil. Silicon Valley's Elon Musk made his fortune by inventing PayPal, the Online Banking service. He launched Tesla five years ago with no experience at all in the car business. Now, he has over a thousand orders for the Roadster from people like George Clooney and Governor Schwarzenegger. They can afford it. This beautiful Roadster cost a fortune.
>> Yeah, 109,000.
>> $109,000.
>> It's a deal.
>> It's a deal.
>> And our car is twice the efficiency of a Prius. So Prius is a gas guzzling hog bite compared with our cars.
>> He says the Roadster can go over 200 miles before you have to plug it in to any ordinary wall outlet. It can take anywhere from 4 to 30 hours for a full charge.
>> It's very easy. It's just like plugging in a hairdryer. Super simple.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Even a girl could do it, is that what you're trying to say?
>> Even -- yes, even a girl. So, just very simple. ^M00:01:30 [ Ticking sound ]
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