Tesla Electric Sports Car Among Best Inventions of 2006

Time Magazine has released its list of the year’s top inventions and devoted an entire section to transportation. While we think many of the winners, like the Hydrogen Bomber toy and Easy Rider lightweight prototype, are flights of fancy, the Tesla Roadster has to be one of the most practical and appealing alternative vehicles ever conceived. You can actually buy one of these speedy — zero to 60 in 4.0 seconds — electric sports cars right now, if your bank account has a spare $100,000 in it.

We also agree with Time that the Black & Decker Simple Start car charger was a thing of brilliance; it can recharge a car battery from INSIDE the car using a 12-volt outlet.

[Best Inventions of 2006, Time Magazine]

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