Tesla Claims 40% To 50% Range Improvement For Roadster 3.0

Tesla Motors Inc TSLA announced improvements to its prototype Roadster 3.0 package Friday.

Citing advances in batteries, aerodynamics and rolling resistance the company claimed it “can achieve a predicted 40-50 percent improvement on range between the original Roadster and Roadster 3.0.

“There is a set of speeds and driving conditions where we can confidently drive the Roadster 3.0 over 400 miles. We will be demonstrating this in the real world during a non-stop drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the early weeks of 2015.”

The advances in battery technology included a pack “that has 31 percent more energy than the original Roadster cell” and can deliver “roughly 70kWh in the same package as the original battery.”

Tesla Motors recently traded at $226.62, up 1.9 percent.