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 Posted: Sat Apr 11th, 2009 11:13 pm
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Model S: More than 700 reservations in two weeksIn the two weeks following the launch, we received 711 reservations for the Model S, the all-electric family sedan that carries up to seven people and travels up to 300 miles per charge.

Tesla unveiled the car March 26, and reservations immediately began streaming in online and at showrooms in California. This historic vehicle is likely to be the world's first mass-produced, highway-capable electric vehicle when production begins in late 2011. The surge of reservations already proves that there's pent-up demand for a car that doesn't compromise on performance, utility or efficiency.

The Model S does 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds and will have an electronically limited top speed of 130 mph. A 17-inch touchscreen with in-car 3G connectivity means you can listen to Pandora Radio or consult Google Maps, or check the car's state of charge remotely on your iPhone. The Model S can be recharged from any 120V, 208V or 240V outlet or quick-charged from an external direct current supply in only 45 minutes.

The anticipated base price of the Model S is $49,900 after a US federal tax credit of $7,500. The reservation fee of $5,000 is refundable. Three battery pack choices will offer a range of 160, 230 or 300 miles per charge. The company has not released for pricing for options and higher mileage battery packs.

If you account for the cost advantage over the life of the car  vs. an equivalent internal combustion engine car at a cost of $4.25 per gallon (a likely future cost in the United States, and a bargain right now in many parts of Europe), the Model S is equivalent to a gas guzzler with a sticker price of about $35,000. Importantly, those savings are realized immediately if you lease a Model S, so there is no need to wait years to earn back the price difference.

Tesla also is taking reservations for the Model S Signature Edition with a $40,000 reservation fee, which is also refundable. Tesla will produce only 2,000 Signature Edition cars, which will be the first built and have unique interior and exterior features. Signature Edition cars will be evenly split between US and European customers.

See the Model S this weekend in Silicon ValleyIf you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or are visiting for the holiday weekend, you're in luck: The Model S will be in Tesla's showroom in Menlo Park, Calif., on Saturday and Sunday – the first opportunity for the general public to see this car in person. Additional sales representatives will be at the store throughout the holiday weekend (Saturday 10am-6pm; Sunday noon-5pm) to answer questions and take reservations.

Eventually we will have a Model S in all of our showrooms and at major auto shows. We'll send updates in this newsletter on when and where else you can see the car in person. Customers and their invited guests will soon get more information about the late April viewing in New York City.

Proven technology, record Roadsters The acclaimed Model S comes from the only production automaker selling highway-capable EVs in North America or Europe today. With 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds, the Tesla Roadster outperforms almost all sports cars in its class, yet is more than twice as energy efficient as a Toyota Prius and delivers 244 miles per charge.

Tesla delivered  over 100 Roadsters to customers in March, marking the first triple-digit delivery month in the company's history. Tesla delivered over 170 cars in the first quarter – more than the total delivered in 2008.

Tesla has delivered about 330 Roadsters so far. The base price of the Roadster is $101,500 after a $7,500 federal tax credit.

Le Rallye Monte Carlo Late last month, the Roadster set another impressive record – a feat that's attracting a lot of buzz in the blogosphere: A Tesla  Roadster went the entire 241 miles on a single charge of the Le Rallye Monte Carlo d'Energies Alternatives. And the Roadster still had an estimated 38 miles left on the charge! This appears to be an absolute record for a production EV.

The challenging course, sponsored by l'Automobile Club de Monaco, went from Valence, France, to the Principality of Monaco. Terrain was mixed and included high-speed driving on highways, urban streets and up and single-carriageway roads that wind through the Alps.

The Roadster was the only car to finish the rally after a modified Porsche 911 dropped out. After the Roadster crossed the finish line, former F1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen took it for a spin around one of the Monte Carlo Rally's special stages.

Tesla's coming to LondonWe're opening a regional sales and service center in London's popular Knightsbridge district. This will be the first of three European stores that we hope to launch this year and an important base in Europe's largest city.

The London facility will open this spring at 49-51 Cheval Place, formerly the Segrave Supercar Club. We'll be walking distance from Harrods department store and convenient to Heathrow Airport.

We signed the London lease at a historic and exciting time for clean-tech companies in the U.K. London Mayor Boris Johnson, a sportscar buff and fan of the Tesla Roadster, announced  this week a plan to introduce 100,000 EVs and to build 25,000 charging stations in the capital. Prime Minister Gordon Brown – also familiar with Tesla – said EVs would be one cornerstone of his economic recovery plan.

We'll soon be sending an invitation to customers and guests with details about our launch party later this spring. We look forward to meeting Tesla's many European fans at this event.

Cheers!

Elon Musk

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http://www.teslamotors.com/display_data/Spec_ModelS_US.pdf

5 minute Battery Swap

How much time does it take to fill up a gasoline powered car at the Gas Station?

 

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http://greenbiz.com/blog/2009/04/13/buffetts-chinese-electric-car-company

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If you think the American auto industry is in trouble now, just wait until the Chinese learn how to make great cars. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.


http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/10/wind-energy-industry-brings-badly-needed-jobs-to-detroit/

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Wind turbine manufacturer Global Wind Systems announced today that it will be hiring 250 new employees to work in the company’s new wind turbine assembly plant in Novi, Michigan, thirty miles west of Detroit. The news brings a ray of hope for a regional economy struggle under the weight of a sinking auto industry.

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We want to be the worlds’ headquarters for electric vehicles

 

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Something else that is a myth

 

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http://slate.msn.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2009/04/13/fecal-fuel.aspx

city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste. ... The biofuel, which is methane generated by fermenting sludge, will come from the Bekkelaget sewage treatment plant which handles waste from 250,000 city dwellers. "By going to the bathroom, a person produces the equivalent of eight litres (2.1 gallons) of diesel per year. That may not seem like a lot, but multiplied by 250,000 people, that is enough to operate 80 buses for 100,000 kilometres (62,000 miles) each," [one official] says.

 

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http://www.app.com/article/20090426/NEWS/904260378/-1/SCIENCE

Not only will they get nearly free electricity, but utility companies will pay them to provide power to their neighbors and the rest of New Jersey.

 

As far as I know so far the amount of money earned in California for a home electric production sale will not exceed the home electric consumption rate. In other words: here in California (Southern California) the electric companies will not pay out any money to home owners who make electricity and supply that new electricity to the grid. The electric companies will only reduce their charge to the homeowner based upon the total net transfer of electric power.

If the home owner makes as much electricity as the home owner uses (makes 100 kilowatt/hours during the day when the sun is out and uses 100 kilowatt/hours when the sun is not out), then the homeowner is not charged for electricity by the electric companies.

Home electric producers do not receive money from the electric companies - as far as I know - in California. I've asked an electrician, and I have not actually tried to sell electricity yet.


 

 

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Journey Man Pictures: New hybrid Chinese car a new development in electric cars

 

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http://climatebiz.com/news/2009/05/14/mini-ethanol-refineries-hit-market

The systems could benefit companies who want to use alternative fuels in their fleets, potentially save money and simplify their supply chains, but face challenges with the limited availability.

Dallas-based Allard Research and Development LLC unveiled the mini refineries capable of producing 100, 200, 500 or 1,000 gallons of ethanol per day, depending on the model. The systems are available in either automated or manual versions.  

 

http://www.allardresearch.com/index.html



 

 

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The Chiron Transportation concept transforms between both a big rig and a locomotive. Powered by an algae-based fuel cell engine, the Autobot-wannabe also comes with a satellite tracking system for navigating railways efficiently.

The design addresses the gianormous ecological and economic costs of commercial transport. Something even the un-green have had to contend with due to the increased costs of petro-based fuels.


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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PressReleases/oxlithbattery.htm

Improved capacity is thanks to the addition of a component that uses oxygen drawn from the air during discharge, replacing one chemical constituent used in rechargeable batteries today. Not having to carry the chemicals around in the battery offers more energy for the same size battery. Reducing the size and weight of batteries with the necessary charge capacity has been a long-running battle for developers of electric cars.

The STAIR (St Andrews Air) cell should be cheaper than today’s rechargeables too. The new component is made of porous carbon, which is far less expensive than the lithium cobalt oxide it replaces.

 

 

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From the what-a-world department: Daimler AG's $50 million investment in Tesla Motors this week means the San Carlos electric car maker is worth roughly half the value of the world's largest auto manufacturer, General Motors Corp. With one roadster on the market and one sedan in prototype, Tesla, thanks to Daimler's 9 percent stake, is valued at $550 million. GM sold 8.35 million vehicles worldwide in 2008; its market value as of Thursday was $1.17 billion, based on the closing stock price of $1.92.

"It's sort of amusing," remarked Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard.

 

And where does the bail-out money go?

 

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If things go well, lighting a mini-sunfire inside that hydrogen ball would release far more energy than the already gigantic amount of energy the laser is putting in. The main goal of fusion science is, of course, to create a nearly endless supply of safe and carbon-free electricity without the need to create nuclear byproducts. But scientists hope it could also be beneficial for astrophysics, as well as inspection and explosion-free testing of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

 

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Because of the vacuum, the boiling point of the liquid is lower than it would be under normal atmospheric pressure. This effect is known from the mountains: as the atmospheric pressure there is lower than in the valley, water boils at temperatures distinctly below 100 degrees Celsius. The evaporated, non-saline water is condensed and runs down through a completely filled tube in a controlled manner. The gravity of this water column continuously produces the vacuum and so a vacuum pump is not needed. The reconcentrated brine runs down the tower surface again to absorb moisture from the air.

“The concept is suitable for various sizes of installation. Single-person units and plants supplying water to entire hotels are conceivable,” says Egner. Prototypes have been built for both system components – air moisture absorption and vacuum evaporation – and the research scientists have already tested their interplay on a laboratory scale.

Drinking Water From Air Humidity

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REALITY CHECK

Hi,

My name is Joe Kelley and I am an average Joe, a worn out old laborer with an interest in discriminating wrong from right, true from false, and good from evil. I've had enough of the false stuff that proliferates through the so called "Modern World".

The link above is a report about General Motors, America, China, Politics, and Economy. The link above is about history, the present, and the future.

I'm here now to offer a reality check on that link above as that link above offers its "perspective".

Reading anything that reports doom and gloom without any mention of prosperity for posterity, whatsoever: is cause for concern? Why is the "news" nothing but negation?

Consider reading the entire link above and then take your own time, your own energy, and your own power, in your own command, and decide between looking into some good news and continuing on only a bad news diet.

A.      Feed yourself a steady diet of bad news

B.      Look at some good news in addition to all the bad news

Where is the good news; you may ask?

I’m going to link four links where the process of creating good news occurs in Modern Times.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tesla+Motors&aq=f&oq=&aqi=n1g10


That first link counters (reality check) the bad news link at the top of this post. An American inventor, worker, thinker, builder, entrepreneur, human being, named Elon Musk is currently working towards supplying the world with a better automobile. That is being done in America.

That is being done despite all the power that intends to crush competition in the auto industry.

Why is that link, to that good news, missing in the often reported events of Modern Times?

Note the two sentences above; “crush competition” and “missing news” are related: one works with the other to create that "perfect storm".

Tesla Motors must advertise on the free network; because the non-free network is controlled by the powers that crush competition. Tesla can compete for market share despite all the powers that intend to crush competition including the power that “hires” slave laborers.

Much can be reported, as a reality check, concerning Tesla Motors as a good news competitor in Modern Times. The next link intends to add fuel to the fire as another example of good news contending with all the current bad news.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Aptera&aq=f&oq=&aqi=n1g10

That second link reports on another home grown, American, invention and production of a competitive automobile; where the potential to gain market share, despite all the power bearing down on any competition, is real, is current, and is cause for optimism. Why are “news” reports of the failure of GM, the failure of “government bail outs”, the failure of foreign trade policies (outsourcing capital, “capital flight”, to China), and the failure of the American Dream, why, why, why, is all that bad news not offered in concert with the good news?

Think about the future please. At some point the average Jane and average Joe American will need to buy another car. Will the choice be one car only, no choice? Will the choice be a choice between the new Tesla economy car, made in America, and the new Aptera economy car, another one Made in America, or will the choice include new economy cars offered through importation from other places outside of America?

Why will we have a choice at all? Please think about that as I offer link number three.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html

When people only see bad news, I wonder, is the condition desired, or is the condition undesirable? The link above offers more than simple data, more than simple reporting concerning some obscure news item occurring in some irrelevant place, as if nothing matters in the face of all the global doom and gloom.

When major scientific establishments authorize specific discoveries to be valid, to be true, to be worth knowing; should the people of industry listen? The link between the “discovery” at MIT and the car industry is worth looking into, in my opinion, because doing so tends to brighten the future outlook.

Imagine, for example, a future choice offered to Americans as Americans look for their next car, their next car purchase, and the idea occurs to us, us Americans, as we consider the possibility of making our own automobile fuel at home – cheaply. We then have a choice to bypass any connection with the Oil Companies, completely severe that link, or at least the link between transportation, the power to make the car go, and sending our hard earned power, our income, our pay, to the Oil Companies, just so that we can drive from point A to point B, which is more often than not: a drive from home to work and back again.

So many choices, so little time, especially as the work hours grow longer and the pay rate declines.

What do you think will be my next link?

http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html

When Americans regain their power over money, something that will happen if America is to survive the attack by legal criminals, the fraudulent criminal extortion racket called The Federal Reserve, when we win the battle over our money, we will have a choice to adopt a higher quality money – at a lower cost.

That last link should be read thoroughly by the reader of this post – if the idea is to employ good news in competition with all the bad news.

Please do some homework on this subject matter; you may reap the rewards of that investment instead of engorging yourself on a steady diet of doom and gloom. The power to know the truth is in your hands.

Joe

 

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