Tad Friend test drives the Tesla:
But you don’t buy a hundred-and-nine-thousand-dollar electric car for its glove compartment. The first difference I noticed was the engine’s catlike purr: when I tooled through the Stanford University campus, cyclists and runners did double takes as I coasted past more softly than the wind. Then I realized that I was unusually elated, filled with an odd combination of moral increase (I’m saving the planet!) and of consumerist glee (I’m faster than a hungry cheetah!).
Zero to 60 in 3.9.
Another good review of the Teslas here.