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	<title>Leadership</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Clearing the Air on our DOE Loan</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid OConnell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tesla Motors was among the first automakers to apply for a low-interest loan under the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. The program, created as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and appropriated in the fall of 2008, is unrelated to the current stimulus or &#8220;bailout&#8221; package of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Model S: A Perfectionist Defines Tesla&#8217;s Design Language</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=72</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=72#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franz von Holzhausen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few hours now, I have been sitting in a darkened photography studio, staring at a beautifully lit Model S. I am beginning to realize why it sucks to be a perfectionist.
Even after hours and hours poring over and deliberating every millimeter of surface and detail leading to this prototype glowing in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Update- Buying a Tesla Roadster just got easier</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=71</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Sande</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Tesla customers and enthusiasts,
As you have probably heard or read, there’s a lot happening at Tesla:

Roadster production is now at a steady 80 cars per month, and will increase to over 100 cars per month  this spring. We have delivered approximately 300 customers with another almost 1000 waiting for their Roadster, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Motors Update</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tesla to be Profitable by Mid Year
Although extraordinarily difficult to close, the $40M financing round completed in December was twice the amount Tesla needed to reach profitability.  Moving forward two months later, we remain on track with our cost reductions and production ramp, so it appears highly likely that Tesla will meet the goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax incentives: Why the Roadster costs less than its sticker price</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=69</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Sande</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 150 lucky customers took ownership of their Tesla Roadsters in 2008, but 2009 could be the best year yet for new owners, thanks to a wide range of tax incentives in the United States that in some cases shave 10 percent or more off the cost of the car.

Many states are rolling out additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Course: Preserving the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=68</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=68#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid OConnell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House granted General Motors and Chrysler a reprieve Friday when it authorized $17.4 billion in emergency loans. President Bush said the alternative – the collapse of two American icons – was “not a responsible course of action.”
It’s impossible to say whether loans from the Treasury Department’s $700 billion financial stabilization fund will revive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick introduction from the newest member of Tesla&#8217;s executive staff</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=67</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Sande</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very proud to be joining Tesla at this exciting time in the company’s growth curve. We are preparing for the delivery of our 100th customer car in the next week  or two, and 2009 promises to be a fantastic year for the company.
Having been a “car nut” all my life, I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to Washington: Don&#8217;t turn a good government program into a bailout</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid OConnell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Congress passed the landmark Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) in December 2007, the media and Capitol Hill focused heavily on the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standard. Congress increased the standard from 27.5 mpg to 35 mpg by 2020, marking the first time the CAFE average had been raised since the 1970s.
Almost entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary times require focus</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

These are extraordinary times. The global financial system has gone through the worst crisis since the Great Depression, and the effects are only beginning to wind their way through every facet of the economy. It’s not an understatement to say that nearly every business will be impacted by what has unfolded in the past weeks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CARB Must Maintain Pressure to Deliver Pure ZEV&#8217;s in California</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=63</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle Program (also commonly known as the “ZEV Mandate”). If you’ve seen Who Killed the Electric Car? you have an idea of what the ZEV Mandate is and how its implementation has been challenged and impeded by traditional auto manufacturers for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Production and Delivery of Cars to Customers</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=62</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following update was sent by Ze’ev Drori to Tesla customers yesterday.
You know of course the saying “Good things are worth waiting for” &#8230; undoubtedly we were trying the truism of this adage longer than warranted, but we have broken the logjam. We are delivering the Roadster to our customers. Already 9 production Roadsters have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Appointments</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know a company is a living, breathing organism that constantly evolves in anticipation or in response to changing conditions. We are now moving ever so faster toward the establishment of full in-house manufacturing facilities initially for the Model S and in the process make Tesla a complete car maker. Of course not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Selection</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have focused over the last 6 months on the final stages of the Roadster launch, we have intentionally dialed back the public discussion on our sedan program. However, I can assure you that during that time, we have continued to make significant progress on several fronts. Our vehicle design and program development teams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program Update</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tesla Motors</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter that was sent to Tesla Roadster customers today to review key developments in the Roadster program.

Since we last provided a program update we have achieved an extraordinary milestone - on March 17th, the Tesla Roadster entered regular production. In this program update we will focus on a wide variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CARB Must Reject Staff Recommendation to Weaken ZEV Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=58</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle Program (also commonly known as the “ZEV Mandate”) on March 27th at its Board meeting in Sacramento. If you’ve seen Who Killed the Electric Car? you have an idea of what the ZEV Mandate is and how its implementation has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We have begun regular production of the Tesla Roadster</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=57</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last posting on this blog I emphasized that my primary goal as the new CEO of Tesla Motors was to get the car on the road. The potential of this company is vast but it is dependent on meeting our commitments and that starts with delivering the 2008 Tesla Roadster to our customers.
Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving P1</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 1, 2008 Tesla Motors handed over the keys of the first production Roadster (P1) to Elon Musk, Chairman and now a proud Roadster owner.  What has life been like behind the wheel of P1? Find out from Elon himself.
It has been a blast driving my Tesla Roadster every day for the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Customers from Ze&#8217;ev Drori</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=55</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ze'ev Drori</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter that was sent to Tesla Roadster customers on December 21 to review key developments in the Roadster program. These updates were first revealed a week prior in a customer town hall meeting, which was hosted by Chairman Elon Musk and President and CEO Ze&#8217;ev Drori at Tesla&#8217;s corporate office. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Song Remains the Same</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the recent management changes, some reassurances are in order regarding Tesla Motors&#8217; future plans. The near term message is simple and unequivocal - we are going to deliver a great sports car next year that customers will love driving.
To give you some sense of our level of confidence, a few weeks ago we allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electrical Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=53</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay everybody, I need a little help from you.
What is the biggest EV charging circuit that could be installed in your house? This sounds like an easy question, but it turns out not to be. The answer depends on a lot of factors, all spelled out in the National Electrical Code (NEC).
Now those of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Leg of the Race</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=52</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=52#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a few days now since news of the new Tesla Motors CEO hit the streets. There’s been a lot of coverage of this change – some good, some bad; some sympathetic, some not. A minute before midnight this Saturday, San Jose Mercury News writer Matt Nauman posted a blog with the earliest leak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High CARB Diet</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=51</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 01:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday I participated in a panel at the Future in Review (FiRE) conference in San Diego, Calif. Very cool – I got to meet one of my heroes: iRobot founder Helen Greiner. (My own Master’s thesis at the University of Illinois was in robotics.) Helen took a ride in the Tesla Roadster and came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Tesla Energy Group</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=50</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=50#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 07:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the rumors have been flying and the press releases are coming, so it’s about time for me to talk about Tesla Energy Group. Tesla Energy Group is a group within Tesla Motors, Inc. created to allow us to design and sell Energy Storage Systems (ESSes) to other companies. (By ESSes, I mean large lithium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Tesla Goes to Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=49</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 20:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my first experience testifying before a Senate subcommittee – this one was called the Hearing on Advanced Technology Vehicles: The Road Ahead, before the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure.
Unfortunately, many of the usual members of this subcommittee were not present, due to Jack Valenti&#8217;s funeral. In attendance were: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Range Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have read in previous blogs, we recently built our first couple of Validation Prototypes (VPs). These cars represent a significant step forward toward production as they implement numerous corrections to issues discovered during safety and durability testing of the Evaluation Prototypes (EPs), are built from hard-tooled components for all body panels, include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage Oil and Other Hare-Brained Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start off by apologizing to Dr. Robert Wilder, one of our customers who was slated to post here this week. You will hear from him next week, but today I want to comment on President Bush’s State of the Union speech.
Our spies in Washington gave me a heads-up that President Bush would address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Show Happenings</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been away from the blog for a while. I’ve been a bit busy lately, but I knew you would enjoy reading other perspectives from the Tesla Motors staff.
Tesla Motors is definitely a cast of characters – passionate about our mission, strong opinions, interesting backgrounds. I have never before worked with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit About Batteries</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=39</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard CEO &#38;</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Batteries</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now most people know that the Tesla Roadster is powered by Lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries. But here are a few things about our batteries you might not have heard. Our battery system – or Energy Storage System, as we like to call it –  is comprised of 6,831 individual Li-ion cells. It&#8217;s roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikola Tesla Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=31</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m taking a break from answering questions to tell you things about Nikola Tesla that piled on me this week. But before I start, here are a few quick answers:

Cost-effectiveness of owning a Tesla Roadster: No doubt about it, a Tesla Roadster never will pay for itself in dollars compared to (for example) a Ford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motor City</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=30</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=30#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Motor</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit about motors, magnets, AC and DC, and weird little widgets called IGBTs, all the while trying to answer some more of your questions. (And yes, we are opening a Detroit office, but that’s another story.)
Nikola Tesla was a strong believer in AC (alternating current) as a means of distributing electricity because it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Cars and Photovoltaic Solar Cells</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=29</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=29#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Solar Power</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elon and Martin both recognize the synergy between solar panels and electric cars. As Martin pointed out to Gov. Schwarzenegger, a million solar rooftops in California will not reduce California’s oil dependency by one drop unless we have electric cars also.
You have asked us quite a few questions about photovoltaic cells.  Elon and Martin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrids, Plug-in or Otherwise</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=27</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=27#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have asked me about hybrid technologies, forcing me to gather my thoughts on the subject. Let me start off by drawing a clean distinction between today’s hybrids (like the Prius), and “Plug-in Hybrids” as proposed by James Woolsey and others.
Today’s hybrids are purely gasoline-powered cars. Forget the hype from Toyota – the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Comparison</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=25</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Solar Power</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Post: Martin has been here, there, and everywhere this week, presenting to a variety of audiences to spread the word about the new Tesla Roadster. Sadly for us, this means that he has not had time to write a blog article this week. However, all is not lost. I have taken a section from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balance</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=24</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Solar Power</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have asked me about several alternative technologies and why they are not used in the Tesla Roadster. These technologies range from other existing battery technologies (e.g. lithium iron phosphate) to technologies that are on the horizon (e.g. ultracapacitors) to impossible technologies that ultimately boil down to perpetual motion. I will try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethanol, Ethanol Everywhere, Time to Stop and Think</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=22</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=22#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: As our Blog has taken off in popularity, we&#8217;ve come to realize the informal style of a blog isn&#8217;t the most responsible place to convey something as important as our most up-to-date information on battery safety. Thanks in part to our conversations with you in the blog, we have released several updates to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glimpse of the Future at a Celebration of the Past</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=21</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. There are at least a dozen good topics from all your responses for this week’s blog. But I can’t help it – we had such a great time at the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach this weekend that I have to tell you about it. 

Ferrari
We were originally invited to participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Cars is Electric</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=12</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long from now, most cars will be electric. Why? Two reasons: because electric cars are far more efficient than any other kind of car, and because they are the ultimate multi-fuel cars. Sound bold, maybe crazy? Read on.
The May 2006 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine got it right in its typical easy-to-understand way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Brick at a Time</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=9</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be blown away by the number and breadth of responses to our blog. Thank you and keep them coming! Once again, I can’t possibly answer every question, but I will try to answer a few more today.
I notice that some of your questions are already answered on our website someplace or another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=8</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backgrounder:  My day job is running a space transportation company called SpaceX, but on the side I am the chairman of Tesla Motors and help formulate the business and product strategy with Martin and the rest of the team.  I have also been Tesla Motor&#8217;s primary funding source from when the company was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus Position</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=7</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy smokes! There is no way I can respond to all your comments, but thank you everyone for writing. This time I will discuss one common thread that many of you raised: what exactly is Tesla’s relationship with Lotus? Along the way, I will address a few other threads from your feedback. Once again, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attitude</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=3</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Eberhard</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tesla Motors blog. This is my space to comment without marketing filters. I have quite a few subjects I want to talk about over the next several months, but I will also look to you, my readers, for suggestions and ideas for future topics. I expect this to [...]]]></description>
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