$112,000 for the Power Cord; Tesla Roadster for Free

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  • Flashpoint Flashpoint on Jan 19, 2009

    This car is stupid. The VOLT I think is stupid too. America should move towards HYDROGEN as our base automotive fuel and co-develop battery technology until better charging rates and higher capacity can be obtained.

  • DanM DanM on Jan 19, 2009

    Hi all, I'm getting a bit tired of this anti-Tesla rant from TTAC. It's second only to the blow-by-blow bailout coverage in making me want to tune out (when was the last time you actually had a week that covered only "the truth about cars"?); I'm sick of "the truth about wall street, business, and government intervention" Last I checked, Tesla has produced over 200 vehicles ... more than any other US automotive startup in the last 30 years (go ahead, show me wrong). Better yet, they are re-defining a class of vehicles in a way which is motivating the mainstream producers (Detroit, Japan, others) to modify their next-generation offerings. I don't care if they go bust in another year once their backlog expires. They've convinced the world that electric vehicles are not only for the green elite. That fact alone is more of a legacy than most wanna-be car companies could ever aspire to. Regards, Dan.

  • Areitu Areitu on Jan 20, 2009

    Maybe what they're aiming for is something like what a lot of boutique companies do: Sell high margin accessories. Early adopters, especially Silicon Valley guys, should know being the first also means they get experimented on a bit. DanM : January 19th, 2009 at 11:49 pm They’ve convinced the world that electric vehicles are not only for the green elite. A turn-key Tesla would have to cost 1/3rd as much before I'm convinced it's not for the green-elite. However I do agree the Tesla Death Watch, and the play-by-play of the Big 2.something are getting a bit overwhelming. Tesla is doing great, getting more vehicles out there, despite being a startup with some internal drama.

  • Tesla deathwatcher Tesla deathwatcher on Jan 20, 2009

    The Tesla Death Watch has been cancelled (to my sorrow). This tidbit, and others like it, about Elon Musk's company are rare and far between. The carmaker bailout coverage continues on TTAC unabated, though, so your complaints about that are justified. Myself, I visit TTAC a couple of times a day to see what's here. I spend a fair amount of time here, but still read less than a tenth of what is available. So I always wonder when people complain that TTAC has too much of this or too much of that. If you don't like the coverage of something here, you can't just ignore it?

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