All Tesla Motors BlogsTesla Motors BlogsSite Selection- February 28, 2007 Last week Tesla Motors announced the selection of a site in west Albuquerque where we will build a 150,000 square foot assembly facility for our planned four door sports sedan, code-named WhiteStar. Response to the news has been tremendous, and weve received numerous requests for more information about the decision. Ron Lloyd, who headed up ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=52 Energy- February 21, 2007 Jon Mittelhauser is one of the early developers of the World Wide Web. As a Masters student at the University of Illinois, he co-wrote the first widely used web browser, NCSA Mosaic, and helped to define many of the earliest web protocols. Upon earning his Masters degree for the work on Mosaic, he left ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=51 Cut From A Different Cloth- February 15, 2007 From the earliest days of our work developing the Tesla Roadsters body, we realized we had several major challenges on our hands. We had to achieve a low level of aerodynamic drag to increase efficiency, and we had to keep our mass down in order to maintain a high power-to-weight ratio and achieve maximum acceleration. ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=50 Greenwashing and Other Marketing Follies- February 7, 2007 One week before I joined Tesla Motors as the new Vice President of Marketing, I went to the San Francisco Auto Show to check out the Tesla Motors display and do some research on my new industry. I had to pinch myself, thinking that attending an auto show could be related to my day job. ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=49 Powering the Tesla Roadster with Green Electrons- February 1, 2007 Dr. Rob Wilder is CEO of WilderShares LLC and manager of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, the first IndexFund on Wall Street for renewable energy, better energy efficiency, and zero-carbon solutions. He is also a Lecturer at University of California, San Diego, and was previously on faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara, and University ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=48 |