Comments on: Governator to Help Announce New Tesla Sedan Tomorrow

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Web Usability 101, Useful & Descriptive Link Text | #if debug — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:52:33 +0000

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By: Tesla Sedan Factory Coming to the Bay Area

Tesla Sedan Factory Coming to the Bay Area — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:33:31 +0000

[...] just minutes away from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s joint announcement with Tesla Motors, but we already hear that he will discuss how Tesla plans to build its electric [...]

By: Sarah R

Sarah R — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:31:46 +0000

Keep your eyes on Zenn Motors and their cityZENN planned for late 2009 (but who are we kidding? Probably 2010!) That’s the affordable electric car with highway capable specs that you’re looking for. I can’t wait until they come out. That will be our very first car and it’s the reason my husband and I are just now getting our drivers licenses in our 30s.

By: You SEO partner

You SEO partner — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:51:08 +0000

Lol the SEO kid, thats funny I forgot he drove a hummer, That $109,000 car better be sweet and fast, or come with $80,000 in the glove box.

By: The SEO Kid

The SEO Kid — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:52:50 +0000

The “Governator” drives a hummer folks. A big obnoxious yellow hummer. And hes making an apperance at a Tesla Green Car unveiling? Photo op anyone?

By: henry

henry — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:50:44 +0000

@PixelizeMeToo — I think the picture is funny and that it being pixelated says nothing about the intellegence of tc’s readership.

@Prashant — Your website is funny.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:32:32 +0000

To those complaining it’s too expensive – these early models are not intended for mass market. Tesla couldn’t build them fast enough even if they were $35k each. Their strategy is to price low enough so that what they manufacture will sell but high enough to recoup some of the costs.

This is early days, everything is being learned by Tesla from the technology to the dealerships to after sales service.

Please be patient.

By: Pascal Roy

Pascal Roy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:42:04 +0000

well the electric car is definitely the way to go, BUT, as everyone stated, the price will need to go down.. way down… before it becomes a viable solution for everyone.

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By: The Daily Five: Monday, 30 June, 2008 | EcoTech Daily

The Daily Five: Monday, 30 June, 2008 | EcoTech Daily — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:31:20 +0000

[...] Governator to Help Announce New Tesla Sedan Tomorrow: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to hold a press conference Monday announcing the production of a Tesla 4-door sedan. The new electric vehicle could become available in time for the 2010 model year. Tesla’s expensive, high-performance roadster brought calls from electric car proponents for a more popularly priced passenger vehicle. It’s expected that Monday’s announcement will detail some sort of project partnership between Tesla and the state of California. (Techcrunch) [...]

By: PixelizeMeToo

PixelizeMeToo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:27:48 +0000

Poor choice of pic.
can’t imagine you’d post a pic of an iPhone / Arrington / Washington Post logo in this quality / expression.

TechCrunch readers are not dumb, and don’t want to be hit by tabloid-style pics.

By: Batman

Batman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:59:47 +0000

Until the Tesla costs $35k, I don’t buy it. It’s still a depreciating asset.

Yeah Exactly.

By: Batman

Batman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:58:18 +0000

Green absolutely rubbish the guy drives a hummer in his private life has been in countless movies blowing every damn thing in sight up.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » シュワ知事、明日新しいTeslaセダン発表のお手伝い — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:41:17 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:51:11 +0000

@Tesla Zoomer

I dunno, I think if you want to take the world by storm and really create a revolution in converting people’s thinking on electric cars, the Tesla is not the way to do it. It’s the same as if Ferrari came out and said, we have night vision viewing in the windshield and you can open up a helicopter propeller on the roof for short flight distances. That would be cool as hell, but most people will never even come close to owning one, so who cares?

If the technology is prohibitively expensive, then there is not much you can do. I kind of think that Tesla sees an opportunity to cater to the very rich here in the beginning and is sacrificing bring it to the masses in order to bring in a bigger profit on each car for a few years first…

By: what

what — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:41:53 +0000

“I think most of us here would greatly prefer a Tesla to a Ferrari.”

Wrong.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:24:41 +0000

Will Kuato be there?

By: MrCashyCash

MrCashyCash — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:09:08 +0000

Governor Arnold flies his private jet from L.A. to Sacramento almost every day.

Why should anyone believe what he says about being “green”?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:56:30 +0000

3 questions:

1) Isn’t making cars very hard?

2) Are Tesla actually delivering cars right now?

3) Shouldn’t they be pumping out ~ couple hundred cars/month before they move onto the next one?

By: Tesla Motors to announce sedan tomorrow « blargKABOOM

Tesla Motors to announce sedan tomorrow « blargKABOOM — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:33:35 +0000

[...] $109,000 electric Roadster, will announce a sedan during a press conference tomorrow, according to TechCrunch. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at the press conference to represent a deal [...]

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:22:27 +0000

So my options are, buy a Tesla and live in apartments, or buy a home and drive my existing gas car.. I really want to go for it, but it doesn’t really seem economical unless you’re already “rich.”

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:15:39 +0000

$109,000 is a lot of money for a car, but the Tesla Roadster compares really favorably to *other* $109,000 cars. I think most of us here would greatly prefer a Tesla to a Ferrari.

By: Tesla Zoomer

Tesla Zoomer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:12:10 +0000

@Chris

When the first electric cars were made, the goal was to find a balance between performance and price. In order to make them affordable for the masses the resulting cars were ugly, slow and ugly again. Tesla’s unveiling of new cars from the most expensive to the more affordable is brilliant in my opinion.

All the profits that the Roadster generates will be plowed into the development of Whitestar and then those resulting profits pushed into the ultra affordable model down the ‘road’.

Changing the oil driven paradigm is a process which requires a critical formula. Tesla has it right, lets give them our support!

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:04:29 +0000

Well… they took to much time to make a real eletric cars… LA for example, is a huge city with more than 1 car per person that lives there… I hope this idea works fine and the people really buy the idea… and those cars.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:12 +0000

Although I do not think that Tesla has anything to do with web2.0, it is still a refreshing news/information.

Better than the countless posts about Yahoo and Facebook.