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Old 09-18-2009, 02:14 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tjts1 View Post
Does this look like a tesla to you?
Yeah, kinda. But you missed the trick question. The answer to "where does the Tesla put its battery pack?" is "Where the engine & fuel tank used to be". The VW gets about 4X the mpg as the Lotus that the Tesla is based on, so it seems fairly reasonable to assume that a battery pack to give the VW the same range as the Tesla would be 1/4 the size...

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