Tesla Motors will have a new competitor: a company with more than a century of history and the favorite brand of James Bond. Electric Aston Martin Rapide will appear in the next two years, says the head of the company Andy Palmer. Power Rapide will be eight hundred horsepower, and the mileage on one charge - three hundred and twenty kilometers.
Aston martin rapideThe cost of Tesla Model S sedans is from seventy-five to one hundred five thousand dollars, depending on the configuration. All-wheel drive
Model S P85D is equipped with two engines - one for each axle: 224 horsepower on the front wheels and 476 - on the rear. The total power - seven hundred horsepower.
The Aston Martin will take the 2010 Rapide sedan based on the 2004 DB9 chassis as the basis for an electric car. The head of Aston Martin said that the price of an electric car will be from two hundred to two hundred fifty thousand dollars, which is significantly higher than the prices of the Model S. Andy Palmer added that for Tesla it is very difficult, though not impossible, to continue to grow and get into the super premium car market segment .
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Speaking about Tesla,
Palmer notes that the
“Ludicrous” mode
(absurd, ridiculous) in the new Model S P85D is nonsense. He believes that it is better to drive a few laps on the
Nürburgring race track in Germany than five hundred meters in Ludicrous mode.
The company may also release the electric version of the all-wheel drive crossover DBX.
Concept crossover Aston Martin DBX