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Just look at that S car go…
nothing like driving on the red carpet indoors… with no emissions…
This is my partner Tim Draper, driving inside the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA.
16 responses to “Tesla Model S Parade”
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Thanks as always for the great image and generous license! This picture is leading SFBay right now along with the story on the launch:
sfbay.ca
sfbay.ca/2012/06/23/new-tesla-sedan-jolts-to-life/I’m sure you wouldn’t mind helping along SFBay’s request for a review copy, would you? 😉
Seriously thanks again for the great shot and for helping make this happen!
— Jesse
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Rival Hollywood. There is no business like auto business. Has anyone tried its speed somewhere like Black Rock Desert? Here is an old record —
"Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat was a French race car driver. He is known for setting the first recognised automobile land speed record on December 18, 1898 in Achères, Yvelines, using a Jeantaud electric car." -
The energy during the livestream was just amazing. What a big moment, for all employees but of course also for all the ten-thousands reservation holders.
Congrats on this wonderful car. How is yours doing? 😉
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I like EVs cause theyre silent clean etc but another point of view http://www.kenrockwell.com/business/electric-cars.htm
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That article is riddled with errors, and then I noticed that he has no comments on the bottom, and when I tried to "contact" him to send corrections, he does not have a mechanism but explains that he gets too many emails, and typos and corrections might help guide new articles from him at best. wow.
Anyway, the crux of his argument is that "75% of the heat energy of combustion is wasted converting heat to spinning motion in a power plant". That is true for cars and trucks, because they are small and constrained by automotive needs. But it is not true for power plants. When he did his web research, he made a generalization error of epic proportions.
Even if you want to burn oil, fracked gas, or a biofuel, for some reason, it’s better to do it in a centralized plant because of the heat loss in small engines. A modern Siemens cogen plant is 70% efficient (some newer tricycle plants are >80%). Our fuel-burning cars are 20 – 25%. EVs like Tesla are 88% efficient, so even after transmission line and storage losses, it’s better to burn fuel centrally.
And better yet, I installed solar cells. Remember that one of Elon’s three companies is the largest solar installer in the U.S. It you have an EV and a garage to park it in, you can get solar to charge it for free.
As electricity supply becomes more sustainable (both grid and distributed), so will the EVs. They get greener over time.
And lest we think this is all futurism, keep in mind that China already has more EV drivers than the U.S. has drivers! (details on this)
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The only thing I don’t like about these electric cars is that they make no noise at all. I nearly got run over the other day by one because of that. I think they are going to have to do something about that, like they have by putting a shutter noise on digital cameras etc.
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