With these alterations, it now had a wheelbase that was about two inches longer than the Elise. First-Gen Tesla Roadster Lotus Elise Length Another area that Tesla had to account for was the 12 ...

but if it’s everything they have then something must have gone very wrong in the Tesla archives. It’s possible someone might take a Lotus Elise and produce something close to a Roadster ...

As most AutoblogGreen readers probably know, the Tesla Roadster is a new Lotus Elise-based electric sports car. The Elise makes an ideal platform for this kind of car, because it is strong and ...

The Lotus Elise has given birth to some seriously fast and varied machinery. Aside from Lotus' own models like the Exige, 2-Eleven, 340R and Europa, electric vehicles like the Tesla Roadster, not ...

The Roadster (a reworked Lotus Elise) was released in 2008 as the first car in Tesla’s lineup until the Model S was released. A second generation of the roadster is in the works, although there have ...

The Tesla Roadster is a swoopy ... The extruded aluminum chassis is derived from that of the Lotus Elise, a British sports car, and while the Tesla looks similar to the Elise, its carbon-fiber ...

Lotus has revealed a new convertible Exige at the 2012 Geneva show. The 145mph S Roadster is the fastest ... in soft-top form and similar to the Elise, the fabric roof has to be removed and ...