Tesla Model S Now Official

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Subscribe to commentsTimMar 28th 2009 4:34PM
Cool. that's a great price. Why the long wait? I can afford it now and I need a new car. Come on Tesla.
Ralph E. OrmsbeeMar 28th 2009 10:02PM
I would like to thank you for your hard work. This is a fantastic car. I look forward to this car coming off the line. I will work to own one as soon as I can for sure. I don't have much but I do have fantastic credit.
Please do not let the dam union into your business. If it comes up shut the doors while they decide, thier vote for the union and let them know what they will have when you close the doors here in america befor you will let the union run your business, and then let the nation know full blown why you feel you will have to take your company and production out of country. Unions are nothing more then communist agresion by our government leaders and law makers and it is time to shut them down. If it goes union, I for one will not buy and I will talk you down 24/7. I love the car and what it will do for the world but I love my country more. good luck with everything and GODS SPEED
General KenobiMar 29th 2009 2:00PM
Imagine if you will, what if the government decided that instead of rewarding failing institutions, it was going to reward innovative ones... what if, instead of propping up GM and Chrysler we gave Tesla $45B and told them to get on with it... Something tells me we'd have a healthier auto industry 10 years out than we will now.
BauerkemperMar 29th 2009 2:55PM
Imagine if you will, a government (whose members don't know a thing about business or energy) that stays within its constitutional barriers. A government that protects the freedoms of man. A government that stays out of the auto industry. This would create an environment where the "Tim"s of the world would drive the "Tesla"s of the world to get their act together. The "Kenobi"s would get to speculate to their heart's content. The GM's would get efficient while the "Bauerkemper"s would shop once the "GM"s and "Teslas" had driven their prices down due to competitive forces.
D'Angelo LanierApr 12th 2009 7:42PM
When I read this article I really like it because I like cars and that being behind a wheel of a car gives you a sense of power that you can go where ever you want, whenever you want when you are in are car made to go fast. A car gives you your own identity and sometimes shapes your personality as a person. The Telsa Model S seems like the best car in the world to me, as I read your intriguing article about the Telsa car features like Seating for five adults and two children or the second trunk under the hood of the car. This car has it all to me and if I could afford a car like this I would buy it the first chance I get. This car might as well be my dream car, if it can go zero to sixty in five –point six seconds.
As a child I always wanted a car that meant something to me or had some type of value to me and when I look at this car it’s a car i truly want. In your article you point out 300-mile range this telsa can go up to and on a 220v outlet, the car can be recharged in 4 hours. The speed of the car and how the car is based on a sports car. This car sounds great it saves you gas money which in our economy is needed think the way things are going. I just have a few disagreements on the Telsa Model S that is
I know it the World's first mass produced electric vehicle offers performance, efficiency and unrivaled utility with twice the energy-efficiency of hybrid. That they’re making the Telsa Models a single speed transmission. That Tesla is working with a government to set up battery changing stations at various locations. That they will be able to change the battery in 5-8 minutes which takes no time at all. But what are yall going to do with the batteries since the batteries are hazardous. When people go to buy the telsa they are not going to dispose of the batteries most people would remove a battery and leave it laying in area for storage. wontacid. This makes it dangerous to the environment.
I also would like to comment on how fast the car goes. Making a car this fast makes the car a dangerous to the public. I think that making a car this fast would make the officers of the law job harder because of the people who weren’t the race cars on day to day bases. In your article I realize how you made the car stand out by saying how amazing cool the car is…. But does the car have in defects..its a new model car and I was wondering what the crash rating was on this car. This article was a while written article but in my opinion the Telsa car is not a safe car.