The Tesla Roadster marked the start of the modern electric vehicle revolution. A tiny startup effort to transform the Lotus Elise into something that could prove the concept of battery-powered sports cars yielded what is, today, the world's most valuable car company run by the world's richest man. You might agree, then, that pristine Roadsters don't deserve to be left to rot away in a shipping container on the coast of Shanghai, never to be found for over a decade.
