Imagine you're preparing for the first date with That girl the entire high school is crazy about. You've played your cards well if you've gotten this far, but borrowing your dad's Porsche and his Armani suit won't get you anywhere.
Even if your father drove a Tesla, you'd still better off using your own assets, the ones that brought you this date - in, say, less than a decade from now, the two automakers mentioned above could be closer than any of them had ever imagined, at least on the two-seater front.
Of course, the Palo Alto EV maker has no supercar/hypercar and building one now would be a lot like that suit-borrowing move mentioned above. At this level of performance, a successful machine must have the kind of handling and power delivery finesse Elon Musk's team is still working overtime to achieve.
Nonetheless, Tesla will need such a car one day and that time will come once the US carmaker's electric bubble will be burst by Porsche and other big names like it.
Now that Zuffenhausen has announced the green light for the Mission E, it's only a matter of time until the Germans start rolling out electric cars that will mop the floor with Tesla's current offerings.
And while the US developer might try to operate in different segments, the green extrovert part of its aura, the one that helped the Model S steal status-based Prius customers, will need to be replenished. And that's where a Tesla supercar/hypercar will step in.
By that time, though, McLaren, who one-ups Porsche and rivals Tesla in terms of customer feedback attention, will have also jumped the electron juice go-fast bandwagon.
However, until supercar spotters set camp in charging stations, we're here to give you British artist Khyzyl Saleem's vision of a Telsa high-charge machine. And while a trained eye will spot the Saleen S7 roots, these Photoshop traces are part of the pixel manipulation's charm.
Update: Speaking of Saleen clues, the artist has also delivered the base image, which you can find below.
Of course, the Palo Alto EV maker has no supercar/hypercar and building one now would be a lot like that suit-borrowing move mentioned above. At this level of performance, a successful machine must have the kind of handling and power delivery finesse Elon Musk's team is still working overtime to achieve.
Nonetheless, Tesla will need such a car one day and that time will come once the US carmaker's electric bubble will be burst by Porsche and other big names like it.
Now that Zuffenhausen has announced the green light for the Mission E, it's only a matter of time until the Germans start rolling out electric cars that will mop the floor with Tesla's current offerings.
And while the US developer might try to operate in different segments, the green extrovert part of its aura, the one that helped the Model S steal status-based Prius customers, will need to be replenished. And that's where a Tesla supercar/hypercar will step in.
By that time, though, McLaren, who one-ups Porsche and rivals Tesla in terms of customer feedback attention, will have also jumped the electron juice go-fast bandwagon.
However, until supercar spotters set camp in charging stations, we're here to give you British artist Khyzyl Saleem's vision of a Telsa high-charge machine. And while a trained eye will spot the Saleen S7 roots, these Photoshop traces are part of the pixel manipulation's charm.
Update: Speaking of Saleen clues, the artist has also delivered the base image, which you can find below.