All Tesla Motors BlogsTesla Motors BlogsThe Perfect Tesla Store- April 30, 2007 If you asked people to rate whether they thought their car dealership was a good or bad place to visit, the response would be overwhelmingly bad. In the typical dealership you will find: Little or no comfortable place to sit, unless you&8217;re ready to sign a sales contract. Aggressive salespeople who want you either to buy ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=58 Range Reality- April 18, 2007 As you may have read in previous blogs, we recently built our first couple of Validation Prototypes (VPs). These cars represent a significant step forward toward production as they implement numerous corrections to issues discovered during safety and durability testing of the Evaluation Prototypes (EPs), are built from hard-tooled components for all body panels, include ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=48 On Tour with the Tesla Roadster- April 17, 2007 The Tesla Motors Team is on the road to the Midwest and East Coast for our 2007 Spring Tour. While we will not have an official Tesla Tour T-Shirt (as good as that sounds, it has probably been done before by some folks that dont look much like us), we can offer something a bit ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=57 Richard Feynman: A Curious Character- April 11, 2007 Richard Feynman is an icon for many employees at Tesla Motors. In 1959 the Nobel-Prize winning physicist delivered an inspiring lecture, Plenty of Room at the Bottom, that encouraged research into what would come to be known as nanotechnology. The nano world plays a key role for many EV elements. It is what makes todays state-of-the-art ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=56 Driving Dynamics- April 6, 2007 It doesnt matter where we were going, on which freeway on-ramp we were merging, or even how fast the car was actually traveling. All that matters is that I was driving, I had a journalist riding shotgun, and I was just passing the imaginary apex of a decreasing radius turn with speed to spare. A ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=56 Slip-Sliding Away- April 3, 2007 To ensure that the Tesla Roadster is as safe as possible in extreme conditions, we have just finished putting one of our Engineering Prototypes through an extensive test schedule at the Continental Proving Ground in Arvidsjaur, Sweden. The proving ground is in a beautiful location on and around a frozen lake about 60 miles from ...http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=55 |