Pump You Up

Gov. Schwarzenegger also dropped in for a ride. He must be looking for an improvement on that whole Hummer thing.

The Governator may like the esoteric technologies… 6,831 Lithium Ion batteries, liquid cooling, carbon fiber body, 200kW of accelerating power (0-60 in 4 seconds in first gear)

Jalopnik got the photo scoop. And he has an evocative gush:

“The torque is unbelievable. And eerie. The power just comes on right now and does not abate. It’s absolutely batty; unlike anything we’ve experienced. We think our kidneys may still be embedded in the seatback. And it sticks. Hoons, your EV has arrived. Yes, you do practically trade bodily fluids with your motoring companion…”

(more photos from Tesla Motors)

16 responses to “Pump You Up”

The Rocketeer

Jul 20, 2006 at 10:48 pm

I’m guessing all 6,831 of the lithum ion cells are the size of an "AA" battery.

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!MimosaMicheMichelle!

Jul 20, 2006 at 11:46 pm

Nice sleek yet rounded and plump body with devilish "eyes".
A perfect environmentaly friendly MAN’s car.

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TomOwen

Jul 21, 2006 at 3:21 am

Beautiful!! Good lines, great stats! Something to be proud of SJ. ~tmo

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mixed ink

Jul 21, 2006 at 4:07 am

this is the wonderfulest adult toy I ever seen from my life 8)
bravo !

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Todd Huffman

Jul 21, 2006 at 4:12 am

The number of batteries baffles me.

The CEO’s background is in EE, right? I thought EE folks picked numbers in logical block sizes? I want my powers of two!

Seriously, the ‘1’ in the singles position makes me uncomfortable.

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hallowed pollution

Jul 21, 2006 at 4:31 am

I bet that last battery runs the dashboard clock or some such.

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Todd Huffman

Jul 21, 2006 at 4:40 am

Also, are you sure it was really the Gov? It might have been a cyborg from the future, sent to bootstrap Skynet to awareness… with phat rides and hot hot bling bling.

You should have poked The Governator with a fork. If it only goes in 1 cm and then clanks, you’ve got a problem.

A warning, if you use the fork test above and it turns out to be the real Gov, you might also have a problem.

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sweet thing

Jul 21, 2006 at 4:54 am

Is this the same technology behind the 170MPGE modified Arial Atom you pictured a few months ago? Do they accept angel funding donations in amounts lower than $1000? I guess that would be considered common stock…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/82768989/in/photostream/

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jonrawlinson

Jul 24, 2006 at 2:14 am

Hey Steve,

Thats really great that you invested in this company!

Have you driven the car yet?

JON.
scourist.com

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jurvetson

Jul 26, 2006 at 8:57 pm

JRAWLS: only a passenger so far…

Billy: very similar. The Atom mod was done by a former Tesla person. This one has doors. =)

oddwick: I’m with you; it’s very odd… (hey, you gotta change your name. logwick perhaps).

11 sections of 621 battery cells. 621 factors into 23*3*3*3 Must be some Rendezvous With Rama thing going on…

Kevin: very much like the cells in the battery pack of a laptop computer.

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_sarchi

Aug 13, 2006 at 8:21 pm

I understand that some early vehicles used directly driven wheels by electric motors with electricity generated by internal combustion engines siemans have come up with a system called eCorner the motors are intergrated into the wheels..

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hallowed pollution

Nov 11, 2006 at 4:26 am

So GM is proposing a pseudo-hybrid that bascially has all of the drawbacks of what Martin Eberhard calls a "punishment car" (GM’s new electric’s range is estimated at 20-30 miles) combined with none of the advantages of a Toyota- or Honda-style hybrid (actually being able to run for long distances on the gasonline engine). This reeks of publicity stunt.

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nels1

Mar 16, 2007 at 10:25 pm

mmmm….tesla!

sexing up the technology is a brilliant way to market it to the mainstream public. the toyota prius in australia hasn’t achieved any significant uptake by consumers, and i think the poor aesthetics of its exterior design doesn’t do it any favours. sad, but true, that it will take sexiness to save the environment:)

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feusl

Apr 27, 2007 at 8:55 am

It is a dream!

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Sneaky Pete Parker

Apr 3, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Nikola Tesla made earthquakes in the year 1899.
September 3, 1899
September 6, 1899
September 9, 1899

"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe."
— Nikola Tesla

I am not asking you…
I am telling you.

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go ogle

May 14, 2010 at 9:55 pm

I solved the 111 year old riddle of Nikola Tesla…
OK, let me first say that I am not a geologist, a seismologist or a physicist. I am simply someone who knows his grandpa would not lie. That said… I appreciate your superior knowledge on this matter even when it comes in the form of heckles. I am sure with your education, had he been your grandpa, you would have done a much better job at figuring out and explaining this matter but he was mine and I understand your doubt. Thank you for your time and giving me the opportunity to send this message. YOURPENGUY

I SOLVED THE 111 YEAR OLD RIDDLE OF TESLA…
I TALKED TO TESLA BIOGRAPHER MARC J. SEIFER PHD ON THE PHONE A FEW WEEKS AGO… HE SAID AND I QUOTE…

"IT IS A WEAPON!"

"WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU!"

"WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AROUND TELLING EVERYBODY!"

"DO YOU WANT ANOTHER HAITI!"

Excerpt from the New York World

Telegram, July 11, 1935 –

Nikola Tesla revealed that an earthquake which drew police and ambulances to the region of his laboratory at 48 E. Houston St., New York, in 1898, was the result of a little machine he was experimenting with at the time which"you could put in your overcoat pocket." The bewildered newspapermen pounced upon this as at least one thing they could understand and Nikola Tesla, "the father of modern electricity" told what had happened as follows:
Tesla stated, "I was experimenting with vibrations. I had one of my machines going and I wanted to see if I could get it in tune with the vibration of the building. I put it up notch after notch. There was a peculiar cracking sound. I asked my assistants where did the sound come from. They did not know. I put the machine up a few more notches. There was a louder cracking sound. I knew I was approaching the vibration of the steel building. I pushed the machine a little higher. "Suddenly all the heavy machinery in the place was flying around. I grabbed a hammer and broke the machine. The building would have been about our ears in another few minutes. Outside in the street there was pandemonium. The police and ambulances arrived. I told my assistants to say nothing. We told the police it must have been an earthquake. That’s all they ever knew about it."

Some shrewd reporter asked Dr. Tesla at this point what he would need to destroy the Empire State Building and the doctor replied: "Vibration will do anything. It would only be necessary to step up the vibrations of the machine to fit the natural vibration of the building and the building would come crashing down. That’s why soldiers break step crossing a bridge."

"On the occasion of his annual birthday celebration interview by the press on July 10, 1935 in his suite at the Hotel New Yorker, Tesla announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy accurately with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance, including a related new means of communication and a method, he claimed, which would facilitate the unerring location of underground mineral deposits. At that time he recalled the earth-trembling "quake" that brought police and ambulances rushing to the scene of his Houston Street laboratory while an experiment was in progress with one of his mechanical oscillators…"

From My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

Chapter 5—The Influences That Shape Our Destiny

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies. An incident of my youth may serve to illustrate. One winter’s day I managed to climb a steep mountain, in company with other boys. The snow was quite deep and a warm southerly wind made it just suitable for our purpose. We amused ourselves by throwing balls which would roll down a certain distance, gathering more or less snow, and we tried to outdo one another in this sport. Suddenly a ball was seen to go beyond the limit, swelling to enormous proportions until it became as big as a house and plunged thundering into the valley below with a force that made the ground tremble. I looked on spellbound incapable of understanding what had happened. For weeks afterward the picture of the avalanche was before my eyes and I wondered how anything so small could grow to such an immense size.

Ever since that time the magnification of feeble actions fascinated me, and when, years later, I took up the experimental study of mechanical and electrical resonance, I was keenly interested from the very start.

Nikola Tesla WAITED 37 YEARS to brag of the earthquake incident in 1898, but THE VERY NEXT YEAR in 1899 he dropped everything an went out west to Colorado Springs. IN A TRANSATLANTIC RACE TO BROADCAST AND RECEIVE RADIO SIGNAL, ON THE WORLD STAGE, HE DROPPED EVERYTHING THE NEXT YEAR…AFTER MAKING EARTHQUAKES AND WENT WEST?
He wanted to send power not signal and SEND POWER HE DID. THIS IS WHY MARCONI WAS ABLE TO PILFER HIM OF RADIO IN THE FIRST PLACE AND WHY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT REVERSED MARCONI PATENTS IN 1943 RIGHT AFTER TESLA DIED WITH…
YOU GUESSED IT…
U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION #369.
What are the chances it would be decision # 3 – 6 – 9 ?
At least one in three hundred an sixty nine. RIGHT?
Nikola Tesla caused the September 1899 Cape Yakataga and Yakutat Bay earthquakes in Alaska from Colorado Springs.
On…
September 3, 1899
September 6, 1899
September 9, 1899
"If you only knew the magnificence of the three, the six and the nine…
then you would have a key to the universe."
-Nikola Tesla
(AFTER CAUSING THREE EARTHQUAKES)

It has been a 111 year non correlation between his Pike’s Peak work and the story of eight
prospectors were panning the glacial sands near Hubbard Glacier when Earth starting shaking and never seemed to stop. A few days
later, they had survived a natural phenomenon they probably should not have. The shore uplifted during a massive 1899 earthquake near
Yakutat. The Earthquakes at Yakutat Bay, Alaska in September, 1899. Geologists Ralph Tarr and Lawrence Martin, in the area a few years
later to study the marvelous glaciers, saw things like mussels "resembling clumps of blue flowers" on rocks thrown up 20 feet above the
ocean. They saw so much evidence of a giant earthquake they interviewed a few prospectors in Yakutat and included their stories in a
1912 government paper, "The Earthquakes at Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in September, 1899. When Tarr and Martin arrived in Yakutat,
prospector A. Flenner was working as a carpenter there six years after the series of large earthquakes, the biggest being a magnitude 8.0
that happened on Sept. 10, 1899. Flenner had been panning for gold in the area that day. "Mr. Flenner stated in 1905 that after the first
shock on September 3 they rigged up a home-made seismograph, consisting of hunting knives hung so that their points touched and
would jingle under a slight oscillation," Tarr and Martin wrote. "With this instrument (rude, perhaps, but more delicate than their own
perception) they counted 52 shocks on September 10, up to the time of the heavy disturbance (the 8.0 earthquake) that caused so much
damage." Another miner, L.A. Cox, was also at the scene. "About 9 a.m. on the 10th we had a very severe shock (what USGS later
calculated as a magnitude 7.4 foreshock), so violent that one could hardly keep his feet," Cox said. "The low alder brush shook and bent
like reeds in a gale of wind. (Then, at) 1:30 p.m., we got the king bee of them all." The king bee was a massive earthquakes that CHANGED THE MAP!
Shattered
glaciers, lifted areas of shoreline 47 feet out of the water, and caused "the death of millions of individuals," Tarr and Martin wrote. Those
individuals were fish and crabs deposited on land, and barnacles, mussels and other rock-clinging organisms thrust high above the water
level.The prospector Cox further described the big earthquake:
"The ground (was) cutting some of the queerest capers imaginable. In addition to the circular motion of the preceding heavy shock, it was
waving up and down like the swells of the sea, only with considerably more energy."
On glacial sands that often liquefy during a large earthquake, the prospectors were lucky to survive the episode as natural forces ate
their camp and all their supplies.
"We ran from our tents, leaving everything behind, and were never able to rescue anything from it after," prospector J.P. Fults said.
"Above us about 100 yards was a lake.This lake broke from its bed and dashed down upon our camp while we ran along the shore and
escaped its fury. This deluge was almost immediately followed by one from the sea. A wall of water 20 feet high came in upon the flood
from the lake and carried all debris back over the undulating morianic hills.
"We protected ourselves from being carried away by tearing up clothes and tying ourselves to the small alder trees growing on the
mountainsides," Fults said.
The remarkable part of this story is that no one died despite the bad placement of the miners. Tarr and Martin attributed the earthquake
to the impressive tectonic activity researchers today know as the Yakutat Block crashing into southern Alaska, giving rise to the highest
coastal mountain range on Earth.

The following are figments of my imagination, i’m sure, combined with misinterpreted phenomenon explained very poorly with the entirely untrue story of a young Army Air Corps flight navigator from East Saint Louis who saw Television for the first time at the Chicago Worlds Fair and became the first licensed television technician ever in the state of Illinois. This was before the young man went on to become an explosives engineer that invented the very first successfully deployed crash bag using CO2 gas in the fifties. Now that was before designing the charge that blows the wings out on the cruise missile mid flight which was before designing the inertial upper stage of the space shuttle which was well before designing the pop-top charge that blows the clear the path for our nuke to get out of those silos even after an almost direct hit which was before retiring senior vice of a major defense contractor who was back and forth from Northrop to Boeing to Sandia to Pharump with top security clearance all over the country who very likely did many more things than a paragraph can describe here or I can know. I do remember, being often intrigued by his refusal to discuss further with me, his grandson, many seemingly harmless and some not so harmless subjects. To make a long story short I would like to ask you what it means when this man who would not lie and thought a quibble much worse than a lie… after sending me out across town from the hospice in the middle of the night to bring to his deathbed a Bible and the failed mission comments when I returned first with his wife my Grandmother’s Catholic Bible this man who made me go back out and find HIS BIBLE… the I guess Non Catholic Bible, AND HOLDING THAT BIBLE… TOLD ME THAT NIKOLA TESLA MADE EARTHQUAKES IN 1899. THEN HE TOLD ME AGAIN THAT TESLA MADE EARTHQUAKES IN 1899, WHICH OPPOSES WHAT HE SAID WAS LAW THAT NOTHING CAN BE CREATED OR DESTROYED…ONLY CHANGED…YET EARTHQUAKES FROM EVEN A LIGHTNING BOLT WOULD BE GETTING OUT EXPONENTALY MORE THAN WHAT YOU PUT IN. SOME GOLD PANNING 49ER TYPES WERE PAID OFF AND THE ESKIMOS DIDN’T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT MONEY WAS LAUGHING AND THEY WERE THE ONLY ONES in the WHOLE WORLD WHO NOTICED IT HAD EVEN HAPPENED AND EVEN THEY DID NOT FATHOM. Then he died in that bed with that Bible. I did not tell anyone of this event and could have taken it to my grave had there not been so many damn earthquakes lately.
Now I hope that you see why from my shoes reverse engineering THE GREATEST STORY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD from facts that I was blessed to already know as true sometimes can appear less than sane or scientific amid unfathomable disinformation tactics and epic lies placed as cornerstones in the structure of our very reality.
I solved the Nikola Tesla riddle of the 369. Tesla has accomplished many marvelous inventions and had many great discoveries in electrical engineering BUT THIS ONE YOU DID NOT HEAR. It is the total truth without quibble and the very reason for all the rumors and disinformation. Now, after 111 years and with the dawn of two new centuries, I announce an achievement which will amaze the entire universe, and which eclipses the wildest dream of even the most visionary scientist. Nikola Tesla made earthquakes in 1899. That my friends is the universal key to unlock so many lies under guise of freedom…

Tesla made earthquakes in 1899.
September 3, 1899
September 6, 1899
September 9, 1899

How could most people not know of a man that invented much of the twentieth century. A man that invented Radio, Radar, Remote Control, Halogen Lights, Neon Lights, Alternating Current and even The Hydroelectric Dam? It may be explained with the MAG-nificence of the three, six & nine… that in truth are dates in September, 1899, when Tesla made the land wave like the sea, Yakutat Bay earthquakes from Colorado Springs you now see. Have an ear to fathom the extent and danger from this the greatest discovery of all time, a literal and symbolic key to the universe left by Nikola Tesla who’s character and many clues had way too much pride to out last time nameless.

By YOURPENGUY
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