Tesla Roadster: The World's Only Cool Electric Car

[Mr_Flibble]

We're doomed.

[August]

[R33]

Originally Posted by Mr_Flibble

We're doomed.

I can lay my hands on a job lot of sandwich boards from 'THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!' brigade if your that bothered. Apparently the lack of any global armageddon back in 2000 diminished their appeal somewhat.

Some ideas do tend to 'recycle' hahahahahaha!

[Mr_Flibble]

See I'm recycling to help the environment

[ATom]

Tesla Motors will open up five customer service centers in conjunction with the public launch later this year of the Tesla Roadster, an all-electric sports car. The service centers will be located in Chicago, Northern California, Southern California, New York and Florida, according to a Daryl Siry, vice president of marketing. Each of the centers will have a couple of the cars in different colors, displays on the technology used in the vehicles. More will follow, Siry added, largely because the company will start producing a line of sedans in 2009. "To do 10,000 units for Whitestar (the codename for the sedan) we need to be in a lot more places," he said.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6167658.html

Yesterday, Tesla Motors received $561,000 for the development of a UL-approved 16 kw (medium-power) public commercial charging station from CARB. They say the technology "could be used to power up electric vehicles throughout the state of California." Might we someday drive our Roadsters and WhiteStars to the Tesla station for a fill-up?

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/05...ghout-america/

All you'd really have to do is have the car's battery banks set up like an array of cartridges. If they all had an individual charge display, you could simply pull into a 'filling station' and swap out (by popping your hood and just pulling them out, like hot swappable hard drives) your run down batteries for fully charged ones, just like people do with propane tanks. Hell, the station could even charge you only for the difference between the energy in the battery(ies) you swap out and the fully charged one(s)...

[bruce]

Seems that Condoleezza Rice is a fan too.



U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, gives a thumbs up as she prepares to take a test ride on the 2007 Tesla Roadster electric car along with Tesla sales manager Tom O'Leary, right, during a demonstration by Tesla Motors in Moffett Field, California.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/may/85485.htm

The first Tesla store will open in... Menlo Park, in the Bay Area. It will be in a property owned by Stanford University, which used to house a Chevrolet dealer. Not only is the world getting a green car dealership, but it's losing a non-green one. The original idea was to launch a dealership in New York, Chicago, South Florida, Los Angeles and the Bay area.

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/08...r-first-store/

[debs]

It would be really great if the Tesla did become a success and show that not just can electric cars succeed but you don't have to be a major company to bring a car to market these days.