Tesla Model S launched! Finally we see what the future of electric cars can be.

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OK.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk seems to have it all… The one thing he doesn’t have, by his own admission, is money.


“About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” he wrote in a court filing dated Feb. 23.

That’s a problem not just for him but for Tesla, where he is the lead investor and chief product architect, as well as CEO.

Musk’s willingness to funnel his own cash into Tesla has for years sustained the faith of fellow investors and reassured would-be car buyers in 2008 when the company’s finances were in perilous shape.

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The company has a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy, but it’s been heavily dependent on Musk, as well.

However, it’s recently started kicking more compensation his way, reimbursing his private jet flights and issuing him 6.7 million stock options as compensation.

Musk is in the middle of an ugly divorce, too, with his wife charging him with “breach of fiduciary duty” (golddiggers take note, you can marry a risky venture capitalist and still act surprised if at some point he can’t scrape enough cash together for a McDonald’s Value Meal) as grounds for tearing up the pre-nup and going after his assets.



http://lolfed.com/2010/06/03/tesla-electric-cars-scandal-and-bailouts-oh-my/
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Your point being?
 
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You seem excited. Maybe your emotional state caused you to forget basic grammar.

Care to comment on Tesla's documented issues?
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I am sitting and typing on a forum here, and talking with other people online. Excited? It is an online discussion.

I have seen enough outside review to like what Tesla is doing. I never claimed it was perfect. I simply posted an exciting bit of news of a new car manufacturing company with a radically new product. If I were in the market for a sedan in that price range, I would have no problem buyingthe Tesla.
 
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I quoted you using an excerpt.

Buying a Tesla?
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And what I actually said was: "If I were in the market for a sedan in that price range, I would have no problem buyingthe Tesla."

So the question is not whether or not I am buying a Tesla, but whether or not I am in the market for a sedan in that price range. And the answer to that is no.

Also, you did not actually quote it properly. You cherry-picked the portion of the sentence you wanted. If you are going to ridicule the grammar of others, you should practice proper grammar in your own posts. Do you know the proper way to use only a portion of a sentence in a quote?
 
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In my opinion, the reverse is true.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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Sure you linked to the correct article?
The one I read tells of the inventer of Paypal, the origninator of a private space shuttle service, the principal shareholder of the largest supplier of solar panels in the US, and the creater of the first electric car in the modern era, priciply funded by his own money.

What is your problem with this tremendously successful and obviously enviromentally dirven entrepreneur?
 
Rune said:
Sure you linked to the correct article? The one I read tells of the inventer of Paypal, the origninator of a private space shuttle service, the principal shareholder of the largest supplier of solar panels in the US, and the creater of the first electric car in the modern era, priciply funded by his own money. What is your problem with this tremendously successful and obviously enviromentally dirven entrepreneur?
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You don't have a problem with Musk?

Last week was something of a problem for Tesla Motors.

After self-appointed CEO Elon Musk announced cutbacks (i.e. fired a bunch of people and closed their Detroit office), Valleywag (amongst others) reported that the Silicon Valley EV maker was down to its last $9m.

For a carmaker, that’s like driving on fumes.

Well, it turns out that Tesla had a mole in their midst, who fed the Valleywag website inside info.

Which is fair enough.

God knows TTAC has its spies/friends throughout the industry.

And the fact that this grass, Principal Thermal Engineer Peng Zhou was outed within the company, is also no big surprise.

But the fact that Elon Musk chose to forward Peng’s mea culpa to everyone in the company, knowing full well someone would leak THAT, is more than slightly worrying.

Then again, discretion is not the better part of fanaticism, egomania and old-fashioned cruelty. Or TTAC’s remit, come to think of it.

But then we’re in the muckraking business, not EV manufacture. [thanks to you-know-who-you-are]



http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2008/11/tesla-death-watch-35-employee-commits-hara-kiri/
 
\\()// said:
You don't have a problem with Musk?

Last week was something of a problem for Tesla Motors.

After self-appointed CEO Elon Musk announced cutbacks (i.e. fired a bunch of people and closed their Detroit office), Valleywag (amongst others) reported that the Silicon Valley EV maker was down to its last $9m.

For a carmaker, that’s like driving on fumes.

Well, it turns out that Tesla had a mole in their midst, who fed the Valleywag website inside info.

Which is fair enough.

God knows TTAC has its spies/friends throughout the industry.

And the fact that this grass, Principal Thermal Engineer Peng Zhou was outed within the company, is also no big surprise.

But the fact that Elon Musk chose to forward Peng’s mea culpa to everyone in the company, knowing full well someone would leak THAT, is more than slightly worrying.

Then again, discretion is not the better part of fanaticism, egomania and old-fashioned cruelty. Or TTAC’s remit, come to think of it.

But then we’re in the muckraking business, not EV manufacture. [thanks to you-know-who-you-are]



http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2008/11/tesla-death-watch-35-employee-commits-hara-kiri/
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Still not seeing it. This guy developed long range electic car propulsion, which is now being supplied to both German and Japanese companies, enabling even more wide spread distribution of this wonderful climate saving technology. He, like any human is not perfect. As Jesus said, let he who has NO sins, cast the first stone.

The incredibly compelling thing about electric cars, when combined with photo-voltaic solar panels is that they can truly be driven carbon free. The only other such combination is the sail powered vessal, one limitted totaly to just a few destinations of weather cooperative days.

This, like his Paypal, and his other companies is world changing technology. Even if the company flops, the acomplishments have been made, and the technology will endure and serve mankind for decades, if not eons.
 
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