Tesla Motors Cool New Menlo Park Showroom
Down in Menlo Park, where Tesla Motors recently opened its industrial chic showroom, people might not think “Who Killed the Electric Car?” but rather “Who Can Afford the Electric Car?”. Nevertheless we’re totally juiced about the nearby showroom that displays a half dozen juicy Tesla Roadster electric car models that make the Prius look like a gas guzzling Hummer. It’s our checkbooks that aren’t as excited.
If you happen to be one of the numerous stars like Matt Damon or green politicians (like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gavin Newsome) then it’s easy to tool around in one of these electric beauties but with the current $98,000 price tag (going up to $109,000 for the 2009 model) it isn’t exactly priced like a Buick. Even, with the cash, the waiting list sits at about 1100.
At least these guys continue to drive in the right direction instead of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler which, according to The Detroit News, spent more than $15 million in the first six months of 2007, mostly to lobby against large hikes in federal fuel-economy standards.
We know what you’re thinking, you want to just stroll in and ask for a test drive. The local dealership will offer test drives with a $5000 deposit or a convincing story that you are a legitimate buyer. We plan to re-visit the showroom soon after we scrape up $5,000 from our sustainably built sofa.
Photo courtesy of Tesla Motors
Nothing like lying thru your teeth. GM is building a PRACTICAL plug-in serial hybrid that will make the Tesla not only look sick, but do ,oh, about a million
more good things for the enviromnment than this
silly overpriced coal-powered amateur product that’s using 1st gen li ion batteries. GM is using 3rd generation batteries that will be warranteed for 10 years. The Tesla doesn’t warranty their batteries
even half that long and they will cost $30,000 to replace, making this car about as expensive per mile as the biggest Hummer ever built. So much for your inane remarks about Hummers. Tesla will sell about 400 of these cars before the Fisker Karma serial plug-in does what Tesla tried to do but couldn’t (they are Silicon Valley exec, not engineers) and what GM is doing right now: develop a PRACTICAL electric vehicle. Battery-only electrics are oxymorons that will be about as popular as the crappy EV-1 was -
nobody wanted those things even though they were subsidized up the kazoo. Better learn something about a technology before shooting off your mouth, or you will be as big a butt of jokes as Chris Paine is amongst us electric car buffs.
Oh he’s so cool wow man but the fucker is too stuck up to reply to his email man.
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