Tesla Model S Electric Car: Simply The World’s Coolest TaxiTesla Model S Electric Car: Simply The World’s Coolest Taxi

What kind of taxis do you ride in? Battered old Crown Vics? High-mileage Toyota Priuses or Ford Escape Hybrids?
Our bet is that unless you’ve recently spent some time in Norway, you haven’t ridden in a Tesla taxi.
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Given that country’s huge incentives for purchasing and operating battery-electric cars, perhaps the luxury sedan was a natural.
Tesla Model S taxi in Oslo, Norway [photo: Andrew Henderson]
It’s a five-door hatchback, making it easier to stow even large items or multiple suitcases on airport runs.
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It’s smooth, quiet, relatively spacious in back–and the acceleration lets taxi drivers drive like…well, taxi drivers.
Not to mention the low operating costs and the large battery that provides a full day’s run without the need to recharge.
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Our reader Andrew Henderson sent us three photos of actual Tesla Model S taxis on the street in Oslo–and what it’s like from the back seat.
The fourth photo comes from the Tesla Motors Club, that source of almost everything related to the Silicon Valley startup electric-car maker.
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So on a summer Friday, sit back and imagine what it would be like if every taxi you ever rode in were a Tesla.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
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