Our friend Josh stopped by last night in a Tesla -- one of those newfangled electric cars that will retail for $100,000. He's a designer at their headquarters down in San Carlos and every now and then he gets to bring one home.

So he took me for a spin and wwhhhhoooooaaaaaaa, what a ride! I think we went from zero to XXX in about 5 seconds. Really feel those G's!! The car rides so low to the ground it could probably slide underneath a Yukon.

Wealthy folks are going to be eating these electric sportscars for breakfast. The mileage is equivalent to 170 miles/gallon, apparently. There is no trunk space because the rear is filled w/ engine and battery. It's a cool friggin' car... and this is coming from a guy (me) who generally does not care for cars. (After all, a car is only as good as the music playin' within.)

The SCARY think about this speedster is that it is so quiet. You will never hear it coming. Bad news for pedestrians or those who use their ears to back out onto the street (like I do.*) These might need something similar to what a dude had on his mountain bike yesterday at China Camp... some kind of whistling device to let us know he was coming.