The first Irish people to enjoy the buzzing sound of the Roadster are Peter Harte and Celine McInerney, the first sports car the couple ever had. To go even greener than the electric blue car already is, the two will charge it with wind energy from their utility company.
“We have two responsible cars. We wanted one that was fun," Harte, who also owns a Subaru and a Volvo said. “It’s absolutely just for the crack," added Harte, the technical director of SWS Energy, Ireland’s second largest wind developer.
“People in Ireland have been following Tesla for years, but interest has grown exponentially since this year’s introduction of our right-hand-drive model," Cristiano Carlutti, Vice President of European Sales and Operations for Tesla said.
"This is truly the only choice for people who want one of the fastest production cars on the road today – without the guilt or carbon footprint of internal combustion engine cars.”
To make the Roadster more visible, Tesla will hold a week of test drives in June in Dublin, with bookings to be made in advance.
Otherwise, Ireland is slowly becoming an example of how renewable energy sources can be utilized. The country draws 33 percent of its electricity from wind power generation, with a target to reach 40 percent by 2020 already set.
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