Faster: 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. . . And yes, it has a cupholder

This is the Tesla Roadster Sport (www.tesla.com). The sinuous carbon-fiber skin—actually, a sandwich structure that consists of a sequence of layers: primer, carbon, glass, polypropylene, glass, and carbon, all encapsulated in epoxy resin—is over an extruded aluminum frame. Orders were taken for the car in January 2009 with deliveries scheduled for late June ’09. It starts at $128,500. The more pedestrian version, the Roadster, has a base of $109,000, but it can only go from 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds. And lest we forget: This is an electric car, with an AC induction electric motor with variable frequency drive that produces 288 brake horsepower @14,000 rpm. The Roadster Sport features a hand-wound stator and increased winding density, which helps account for the 0.2 second increase.