For more videos, check out www.wsj.com/video. WSJ’s Jeff Bennett speaks with Doreen Allen, who is representing Tesla at the North American International Auto Show. The new American car company is at the show for the first time to tout its Tesla Roadster, a 100% electric sports car.
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The unveiling of the tesla motors electric sports car. Welcome to cars.iconicpoint.com
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All American? The Tesla Roadster’s body is built in Britain by Lotus!
@fireofenergy Solid state batteries are going to change all this. 300% more capacity. Can be charged faster and from very efficient sources.. from maybe small solar panels or air intake turbines. SSBs can’t leak, they are a solid matrix. They have a virtually zero drain in a standing state. They are lighter, heat and shock resistant. They never get charge “memory”. Best is they cost 75% less that standard batteries to manufacture. They will last pretty much forever.
Sign me up when an affordable moderatly stylish (CASH SAVING) alternative to the ugly oil gussling air poluting monsters we drive today comes into market.
something around $20-25 thousand, with Honda/mitubishi feel to it.
A nice comuter car, mass produce those puppies NOW!
plus with it being electric, you have more options in the design and of the vehicle, some designs unheard of with the current cars.
they dont have the chasis from lotus but it’s lotus tecnollogy
Next time give us more car, less lady.
u can take it one step further and make the electric car have infinite milage, wireless power transfer, i put up a demonstration so we can learn and bring this technology about underground so all can have free energy and infinite wireless power! we all have to bring it forward!
Just make NiMH batteries about ten times cheaper…
Problem solved!
Now, why don’t the oil company do that? Cause there would be (almost) no maintenance market, (almost) no need for continued drilling, etc.
At 324v and 150 Ah Tesla would need about 17,600 NiMH AA batteries. I can get em for $1 ea on Ebay (and they have been lighting my solar light for almost a year, no problem now).
Major business players could get that price down by at least half b4 automated battery plants are built!
Lithium isn’t the only battery out there. Why aren’t you able to see the various possibilities? Stop living under a rock.
did you know the tesla has the chassis from lotus so technically it isnt all american
the oil companies which made windfall profits could invest and buy all the sources of Lithium in the world which are extremely few
then they own Lithium sources now what ?
Five Stars; unfortunately, 99% of Americans don’t know what the hell is actually going on.
I still think they’re a business and that if they’re going to be successful with a still-petroleum-relient economy they’re going to have to deal with the devils [the owners and CEO's of these companies] so that they’re still getting air at all. I’d also bet my tuition payments is that the only reason their cars are at BMW price level, is because they’ve been having to reinvent the electric car, after watching too many patents being bought up for business. im not a pessimist, that’s just busness
no problem-thank you for giving me room to do so. I see electrical car technology as a suppressed form of transportation because it would have threatened a lot of business if it were to have been allowed on the road. Unless their cars are as dynamic as the computer was to our world, I heavily doubt that it will change the economical-business landscape as much as it would need in order to make oil part of ‘the past’.
Thank you for stating your points a little more clearly- it seems we have some common ground. I see Tesla Motors as futuristic and innovative, two things it has in common with Preston Tucker’s company. Tesla Motors proves that electric cars can be fast, fun, and comfortable, and will forever make things like oil changes a part of the past. What do you think of TM and co-founder Martin Eberhard?
One of the co-founders of Tesla Motors believes our dependence on natural resources, specifically for fuel and power, needs to be minimalism or ended, but he started an electric car company to that effect. He hasn’t just stood there talking. He’s walking the walk, too. And the biological benefits that Tesla Motors can offer will become available to the many when they come out with a lower-priced car that the public can afford. Right now, Teslas are in BMW territory.
my points were: a)every politician, business or otherwise, who deals with natural resources in ANY way, wil say ‘we need to stop’ it is an empty, vain and iterated statement.
b)Tesla was the future two decades ago; my point was that business for a few is put before the biological benefit of others.
c) our dependency on oil isn’t the problem; it’s our economy’s dependency on natural resources as a whole-it’s our Duracell if you will.
I am seriously not following you on this at all. I don’t care one way or another where the oil ‘really’ comes from, and I cannot see how it has one Goddamn thing to do with the fact that we can’t go on chugging oil forever. I believe Tesla Motors to be the wave of the future, very much the kind of company Preston Tucker would be proud of. But you seem to disagree. If you can’t see a single thing wrong with America’s dependence on oil, then sure, go on saying Tesla is in bed with Exxon.
the drug reference was just that, a reference point. even Republicans are backing that bit. hell, i could own stock in Tesla AND Exxon Mobil in the next two minutes if I had 500 bucks lying around…it doesn’t matter what stock you own. It only matters that they don’t have to tell us, the people,…yeah, the Saudis are the least of our worries….if we figure out how to make free electricity (Nikola Tesla already did that about 70 years ago)..then we’re fucked…cause our bosses are screwed.
We get less than 1/3 of our oil from the Middle East; most of it, we get from Canada. I know, that’s why our last president was trying to get to drill on Alaska’s nature reserves…natural resources over biology. They spoke out against our dependency on them? shit, i wonder who else is speaking out on that topic…every politician who wants to win…id lie too to keep making a few cool million every year. ‘our dependency on oil is toxic’ what were people saying about coke in the 80′s?
Whatever. When folks say OPEC, they mean the oil-rich nations of the Middle East that hate America but love to take our money as they sell us oil. Who sells who what? I seriously doubt TM’s management is holding stocks in oil and gas companies, especially since one co-founder has spoken out against our dependency on them.
I wonder how it feels to push the pedal down really hard…since it uses an electrical engine (and they can only give 100% or 0% of what you give to them) i guess its pretty much fun…
OPEC stands for Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries; the United States is a member of OPEC. The only reason we aren’t driving electric cars (like they had in the ’80′s -for like 9 months), is because it isn’t….monetarily beneficial to certain people. You could order one of these cars…for a lot of freaking money; however, id bet 300 to 1 that the people who sell these guys are trading stock w/ natural resource (oil, gas) companies daily.
I look foward to Tesla third model car, it should be far more afordable to all of us! And unlike many of the cars coming out today they do not look like kit cars!
A man to that!
Thank you. Detroit had the power to stop Preston Tucker in 1948 as hard as that man fought against them, but their power has waned greatly since then. They can’t stop Martin Eberhard and Tesla Motors, who are making the cars we should have had years ago. When Tesla cars become more and more common and other companies start to make all-electric cars, gas pumps and oil changes will finally become a thing of the past.
the “tesla model s” will only cost $50,000. And its a full size family car. Good job Tesla. I really hope this car company becomes a huge success.
@EvolveVolvo
1… 2… 3… Shide No. 333
American New, The Glorious, Inspiring, Be Both Idea…
Mind… My Dearest For Cause Observed Which
Inexplicable… Uncertain… Were Given Conviction
Foreknowledge…
-Nikola Tesla
(111 Year Old Message From Another World.)
@snarper @teslamotors @elonmusk
1… 2… 3… Shide No. 333
American New, The Glorious, Inspiring, Be Both Idea…
Mind… My Dearest For Cause Observed Which
Inexplicable… Uncertain… Were Given Conviction
Foreknowledge…
-Nikola Tesla
(111 Year Old Message From Another World.)
elonmusk is also the CEO of spaceX right?
@teslamotors @elonmusk
The first Man Made earthquake lasted a whole week. Shattered glaciers. Threw all life up ut of the see… fossils still there for decades you see. If they can hide this, then what can’t they hide… THE CAN’T HIDE ME and The Earthquake at Disenchantment Bay has Shide No. 333, 1899 the Yakutat Bay earthquake of September 3.
Shide No. 337 is one of the early shocks on September 10 and No.338 the heaviest shock of September 10
electric flying car ?
global warming is a funny story.. it’s also funny to say something that expensive is green.. do you know how much waste is a result of 130,000 dollars?
the people who keeps telling us to be green and buy this kind of cars are the only ones who can afford it, rich celebrities
nice but I can only afford an old 4 cylinder guzzler.
@emforty2 Excellent point! I would much rather give my money to advance this technology than perpetuate a petroleum based economy. My greatest wish for this country is a return to economic independence. I think this would be a huge move in that direction. In this country, we vote with our dollars. I will certainly invest in this company when they are public.
@EvolveVolvo, I had hoped the government would give the money to Tesla rather than bail out the car companies producing the same old technology as well. That really could have been a catalyst to launch us forward into an eventual economic independence. I am middle class and appreciate the need to keep a paying job, but I would like to see our country merge auto workers into that technology more urgently.
Google power meter was invented to regulate the consumption of power potentially provided to the public for sale by Google Energy, LLC using 111 year old Tesla technology. This venture between Elon Musk and Google was commemorated by the Triforce Easter egg symbols in 2009. Many of these triangle symbols were incorporated into the Google Doodles that lead up to the 09/09/09 9:09:09 Google Doodle and were subsequently removed from record in The Great Google Doodle Conspiracy.
Something obviously went wrong in September 2009. Did they cause Sumatra? Did Zelda fan Susie Sahim take the fall because George Hwang was instructed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to include the symbolic Triforce symbols? Ask The Three Musketeers of Tesla Motors. Oh wait… they died in Palo Alto and their bodies were burned beyond recognition while the city was in chaos soon after that.
Tesla wished that technology be “shared” without a price tag.
@EvolveVolvo TESLA MADE EARTHQUAKES IN 1899.
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 1899 CAPE YAKATAGA AND YAKUTAY BAY EARTHQUAKES FROM COLORADO SPRINGS)
111 YEAR OLD RIDDLE SOLVED BITCHES. THAT IS WHY YOU CAN’T DATE THAT QUOTE. THAT IS WHY HE ELUDES RECOGNITION. THAT IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH THEY DILUTE WITH CONSPIRACY.
-CMS 2010
GM said their is NO MARKET for electric cars so they crushed the EV-1s
yet TESLA has no problem selling all the $110,000 electric cars they produce
@GGAlice1 One more year and they will. They’re taking pre-orders now.
@yRegal Um… They are public.
@dieselcowboy777 Look up the Tesla Roadster Model S, then. Due to come out next year.
I hope to see more electric cars, because I cant afford gas anymore it is getting higher and more greedy. Electric makes a lot more sense to me because we can rely on solar power, and less pollution on evironment. Hope that car goes into USA. WE can not depends oil for too long because of long diplmancy issues with other countries.
beautiful car but look forward to getting something like this that is a 4-5 passenger instead
were the employess of tessla that were killed in a plane crash an indication of that already? i don’t know if they were higher ups or just bottom rung employees ???
Yakutat Bay, Alaska, USA (1899,September 3 and 10)
The largest vertical surface displacement caused by a single event occurred in this uninhabited region. The second of two earthquakes thrust underwater rocks 47 feet 4 inches (14 meters) above the sea. The Yakutat Glacier, which had been sliding downhill for almost 50 years, suddenly went in the opposite direction. The Hubbard Glacier broke and sent huge ice chunks into the bay. 150 miles away, the Muir Glacier shattered and began to retreat.
only difference is that one has proof. and the other has faith
yaguys i really feel lonely today anyone wanna chat
heyamy cam is running abd i am really bored with all that stuff