Tesla Roadster

The Porsche Taycan has only just arrived in Australia and the second-generation Tesla Roadster is yet to even commence production, but a new rendering has allowed us to see what the two all-electric sports cars look like side-by-side. The image, created by designer Alborz Heydaryan and originally published by Motor1, shows how the direct competitors shape up according to their official dimensions – with the Taycan the far larger of the pair. No filters.

Pininfarina has teased its upcoming pure-electric rival to the Bugatti Chiron, the PF0, in a pair of sketches on social media. Along with the images you see here, Pininfarina has gone to the trouble of revealing some preliminary performance figures, and they're eye-watering.

Tesla has pulled an old school 'surprise reveal' today, wheeling out a second iteration of the Roadster that originally made the company's name. We thought we were just going to be watching the web reveal of its new electric truck... Clearly Tesla and its charismatic founder Elon Musk enjoy creating distractive (or disruptive?) shock and awe, and especially so when the company is striving to get Model 3 production running at an ideal rate, and make money.

Tesla, the electric vehicle maker behind the Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X, is doing all it can to achieve its current business plan of reaching profitability in 2013. The California-based automaker is still yet to turn a profit, despite buying a former General Motors plant in 2010 in a bid to reduce costs and taking solid orders for vehicles across the Tesla range.

Brabus, a renowned Mercedes-Benz tuner known for creating ballistic freeway weapons like the Brabus Rocket and Brabus Bullit, has now taken a spanner to the Telsa Roadster all-electric sports car. It's called the Tesla Roadster Sport Brabus Green package.