The Tesla Roadster has set out to be the performance electric car of choice in the market, prompting a lot of orders for production. And for those in the US who have already put down their money for the orders, they can already rest easy as Tesla received the US FMVSS Certification (not without crashing some) meaning the Roadster can be sold in 50 states. And production will now commence by March.

With that milestone achieved, Tesla is now considering a track-ready version of the Roadster but engineers need to solve one problem - heat. The current designs feature and air-cooled system. A liquid-cooled system is an option, however, this might cause problems with all the electronics strapped on the car and getting that to work would mean the track car is a possibility.

The intended track-ready version reported to be dubbed as the Roadster 120 is planned to shed around 500 lbs. from the curb weight. Weight reduction will improve performance with regard to acceleration, handling and engine load reduction.

The prototypes can do 0-60 in sub-4 seconds but the production version is limited to 5.7 seconds. I wonder how will the track car do?

Source: Autoblog