I've been watching Tesla Motors for a few years. Their all-electric cars have shaken the auto industry who have long claimed electric cars were slow, impractical and always something "just a few years away". Tesla created a hand built sports car with the power and performance even a Ferrari can't match. Their all electric 2008 Tesla Roadster is a hot car, but the $109,000 price tag makes it inaccessible for all but the ultra-rich.
Now Tesla has announced they are building a plant in the San Francisco Bay Area to produce a lower cost vehicle. Still not a bargain car by any means the $60,000 five-passenger electric sports sedan will put more of these zero emission vehicles on the streets.
Tesla announced plans for the new factory yesterday with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in attendance. The plant had been planned for New Mexico, but the state of California gave some hefty tax incentives to attract the new industry.
"We want these cutting edge companies not just to start in California and do their research and development here. We want them to build in California," siad Gov. Schwarzenegger.
Now if we can just get GM and Ford to put their electric vehicles back in production we might have a chance to reveve the sagging US car industry and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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How do you explain stupid? Ford never built an electric car and the GM EV-1 was a total piece of crap. If you want a practical electrically propelled vehicle, the Chevy Volt is the only game in town. The Tesla sucks - it can't get to the state line and back and cost $5,000 per year to keep in batteries. Electric cars were killed in 1906 and have been dead ever since. I hope you buy one, I really do. And keep making Exxon Mobil happy by blocking drilling for oil in the US - you are making their oil wells very, very wealthy. And thank you for blocking nuclear power and being the prime cause of global warming.
Being sexually confused doesn't mean you have a right to be confused about EVERYTHING. I love to hear queers and lesbians talk about the goodness of "natural" products. Ha, ha,ha,ha,ha. What a bunch of blithering idiots.
First, the electric car was killed back at the first part of the century by the people who held the patents on the batteries. surprisingly they also held the patents on the internal combustion engine. For a real explanation read "Internal Combustion" by Edwin Black.
As far as the other snide comment, here goes. First I am not confused about my sexuality or the role of the oil companies in America. I use lots of "non natural " products.
As far as calling me a queen, well I would resent that comment, however I consider the source and find it hard to get too upset.
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