Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux

angry tapir writes "The IDG News Service recently had a chance to speak to JB Straubel, chief technology officer for Tesla, about the Model S all-electric car, its design and technology, and his outlook on electric vehicle technology. He also shed a little light on the car's Linux-based software system."

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[William Robinson]

300 miles is impressive, and probably because they are using Lithium Ion batteries, it should weight less. With gas prices touching sky, I would certainly be interested in this kind of researh ongoing. Some interesting add-ons to this could be PV cells embedded in the body to charge batteries while driving and add couple of hundred miles on the fly.

Re:Never going to take off

[K. S. Kyosuke]

No. That makes the Roadster off-topic.

It's no use anyway. Few people will buy Model R anyway, and Model S is going to be quite expensive for normal people. I'm waiting for Model T, something tells me that that could be the one.

Re:Can I update the kernel...

[RaceProUK]

Possibly, though you may still have to close all the windows.

Re:Never going to take off

[Dog-Cow]

Can we a get a "-100 Raped and Murdered the Joke" mod?

Re:range

[Anonymous Coward]

Get your units in order, man! An amount of energy is given in kWh. Watt is a unit of power (as in unit of energy per unit of time). To get the amount of energy, multiply by the time, hence kWh.

28kWh is enough to power 1000 houses for a very short time or 1 house for a thousand times longer.

This stuff matters if you want to discuss matters on a level above "it's got electrolytes" (which it does, btw).