Sam’s Tesla ride preview, courtesy of Jalopnik http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/sam-s-tes... like we mentioned lately, our hold Sam Abuelsamid was lucky enough to receive a ride in a Tesla pad lately. This wasn’t a 20-second jaunt down the Barker Hanger landing strip but a full-on skip down the PCH. He’ll number you what that ride was like in a minute season, but for now check abroad this pic from Jalopnik, who spotted Sam and the pad following the skip.
Tesla: Roadster production unit #1 completed; future models may use range extender http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/tesla-roa... up Wednesday December 12, Tesla Motors held a unclose town hall assembly for all of its customers. The assembly was hosted from San Carlos and made serviceable via conference name to everyone who has put down a drop. I spoke accompanying Darryl Siry following the assembly, and he declared a full ion will subsist posted up the assembly web place soon. In the meantime, frequent commenter here up ABG and elsewhere Tony Belding took notes and posted them up the Tesla Motors bludgeon ventilation board.
Tesla Roadster’s range back up to 245 miles? further delays? http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/tesla-roa... Buried in the New York Times electric vehicle article that Lascelles wrote about the other day was a little tidbit about Tesla. After originally promising a range of 250 miles per charge when they first announced the Roadster, Tesla had to back off last spring to 200 miles. Engineering changes resulting from the extensive testing caused an increase in weight and a slight drop in battery capacity. The Times article says the Roadster’s range has been revised back upward to 245 miles.
A look at Tesla, the man, the myth, the psychic??? http://www.modernmindreader.com/blog/archives/6... Hundreds of miles away from me a friend of mine who I have a very deep connection was in her shower. During this exact time she began pondering the accomplishments of Nikola Tesla and became very curious. She said that she was experiencing a deep level of thought about the man and his life. Even though this is not generally the topic of her interest, she was feeling very informed about him for some reason.
Tesla’s WhiteStar Albuquerque plant grows bigger (on paper) http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/tesla-s-w... Tesla Motors is working on a assembly plant for its upcoming WhiteStar sedan in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Albuquerque Tribune is now reporting that the plans for that plant are getting larger. The Tribune’s Erik Siemers writes that Tesla representatives, including vice president of sales Darryl Siry, were in town yesterday to discuss expanding the plans. Siry said, “We’re looking at a potentially larger program. The program has been much more clearly defined, and we’re further along in defining what the car is. ’…)
Tesla VP opines on Wall Street Journal EV article, the future is Diversity! http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/tesla-vp-... You might expect the Marketing VP of the best-known electric vehicle company in recent times to be promoting pure battery electrics as the only answer to our transportation problems. However, Darryl Siry is much more realistic and pragmatic than that. While he sees a growing market for electric cars in the coming years, Darryl acknowledges that both gasoline and diesel internal combustion will be with us for some time to come. More importantly the argument of parallel vs series vs plug-in hybrids is pointless because all have their place.
AutoblogGreen videos: Tesla Motors and Miles Automotive at Green the Capitol Office Expo http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/autoblogg... Below the fold are two videos of electric car companies that made an appearance at the Green the Capitol Office Expo. The first video is Miles Automotive showing me around their currently available, low speed electric vehicle. The tour of the Miles electric car includes a look at the batteries, plug and interior. Later in the video, I am told they plan to release a highway speed, affordable electric car (the Javlon XS500) later next year.The second video below the fold is Tesla Motors, showing me around an early version of the $100,000 Tesla electric roadster, available first quarter of 2008.
Martin Eberhard takes a further step away from Tesla management http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/martin-eb... Tesla Motors has rightful announced that assembly co-founder Martin Eberhard has moved above to the assembly’s advisory board. Last imposing Martin stepped down like CEO to accept ward the role of President of Technology and overlook acquirement the assembly’s chief product the Tesla horse into product. The car has been plagued by transmittance problems which necessitated a supplier and significant re-engineering of plane the replacement transmittance plan.
Print magazines get to actually drive the Tesla Roadster http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/print-mag... This blogger had the useful fortune to go for a ride in the Tesla horse with Marketing VP Darryl Siry a two of weeks ne, yet unfortunately I didn’t get actually drive the car. In the latest access over on the Tesla blog Darryl explains the reasons wherefore they decided allow print journalists subsist the first to possess time at the revolve. This week the apex dogs from the great idler mail publications are with thrashing the two newest validation prototypes in Northern California.
More on Martin Eberhard’s departure from Tesla Motors http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/more-on-m... The tradition of Martin Eberhard’s craggy departure from Tesla Motors continues to open. A story on the virid phascolome blog at Fortune’s locality has more particulars on what happened during Eberhard’s last few days attending the body he helped get off the ground. It appears that a personality interfere betwixt Eberhard and chair Elon Musk was at smallest partly behind the kindling. It besides looks like at smallest a majority if not all of the members of the food of Directors had lost confidence in Eberhard’s ableness to get development of the Roadster back on track.
Tesla’s Roadster wins Autopia’s Car of the Year award http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/tesla-s-r... In a something wonderful move (especially given this), Wired.com’s Autopia blog has chosen the Tesla pad like their Car of the Year. The runner-up was the Fiat 500. Many people are fed-up hearing all of the hype about the Tesla, yet that is part of the sense that the tool won this particular award.
