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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tesla Store München</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=92</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of preparation, Tesla Store München is now open and ready for business. We officially opened doors on  10 September. The all-electric Roadster is available for sale in continental Europe! Located at Blumenstrasse 17, the store serves as  a hub for sales, deliveries, and service, and will further develop the sales  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to your neighborhood: Tesla Mobile Service Rangers make house calls</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=91</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=91#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Zanghi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are  happy to announce that the Tesla Ranger mobile service team is taking the auto  service experience to a new level. Our Rangers now make “house calls” anywhere  in the United States or Canada, and we will soon roll out the program in all  markets where we sell cars. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaugural Tesla Roadster Rally</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=90</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Snyder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea was simple:  Celebrate the one-year anniversary of Tesla’s first showroom with a “Roadster  Rally” and say thank you to customers in Southern   California, our largest regional market.
We didn’t realize  we’d get such an overwhelming response!


The first owners arrived last Saturday from San Diego around 8:30 a.m. They charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President&#8217;s Day with a President</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=89</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Snyder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to an invitation from one of our early investors, I found myself spending Presidents Day at a round-table luncheon with former President Bill Clinton with a Sterling Silver Tesla Roadster Parked directly behind us. The round-table luncheon took place in Burbank, Calif., at the only LEED platinum-certified airplane hangar in the world.


The moderator was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feel the Heat: Tesla Roadshow hits Miami during Art Basel</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=88</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=88#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Powers</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After departing the frozen tundra of New York City, the Tesla Roadshow migrated south to Miami, Fla. We have more than 60 customers in Florida, including many people who had purchased a Roadster sight unseen, and it was high time they became intimately familiar with the car and Powertrain 1.5.

We timed our Dec. 4-7 trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown meets the Roadster</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=87</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While U.S. Republicans and Democrats were fighting it out across the pond in late October, VP19 was busy creating its own political agenda in the United Kingdom.

Everyone agrees electric vehicles are the future &#8212; but Tesla is simultaneously proving they are also the right car right now. To show other people what we at Tesla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Roadshow Storms Pacific Northwest</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=86</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak Edson</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine Tesla employees stormed Seattle last weekend on a four-day sales and marketing blitz. The trip was a great success – not only for 80 customers and media who got to drive the car but for those of us at Tesla scouting the perfect location for a Seattle-area store, which we are planning to open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Une Campagne Anglaise : An English Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=84</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rochefort</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ce mois de Juillet nous avons rendu hommage au Royaume d’Elizabeth en sillonnant l’Angleterre afin de présenter le Roadster dans ce pays dans lequel il est aujourd’hui assemblé. Notre campagne a commencé à Londres, au très sélect club Hurlingham, un manoir et un parc privé de plusieurs hectares au cœur de la ville, dédié à [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Roadster Tesla aux 24 Heures du Mans: French and English Double Feature</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=83</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rochefort</dc:creator>
		
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pour faire connaître notre Roadster en Europe un de nos angles est donc de le présenter à l’occasion des plus grands évènements de sport automobile en Europe. On insiste ainsi sur le fait 
que cette voiture n’est pas une punition, c’est une voiture raison et surtout une voiture passion qui va convaincre les plus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Impresses in Scandinavia</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=81</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esben Pedersen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hectic week in June was all it took for the Tesla Roadster to make a lasting impression in northern Europe.
First stop was Norway where the environmental organization Bellona had invited Tesla Motors to show the roadster to European VIP’s at the C8 Climate Summit. The interest was overwhelming and VIPs like the former Norwegian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Roadster Tesla sous les sunlights de la Côte d’Azur</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=79</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=79#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Rochefort</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suite à l’annonce de la commission de Bruxelles de faciliter l’homologation pour l’Union Européenne des voitures produites en petite série en 2009, nous avons donc décidé d’accélérer la commercialisation de notre Roadster sur le Vieux Continent.  
Pour se faire et vu la concordance de temps, nous avons donc choisi comme terrain de présentation de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Store Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom OLeary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we opened our first ever Tesla Store in Los Angeles on Santa Monica Blvd.
The Tesla Roadster is a revolutionary car and our Tesla Stores will be no less revolutionary as an automotive retail experience.

Store Front
What’s so different?  Well, pretty much everything, but here’s the main idea.  We want to create welcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Vacation (Not)</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=77</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I fly back from Brussels and think about the last 9 days in Europe I am very encouraged by what we learned. One of the advantages of a startup operation is the ability to change direction and make decisions very quickly to adjust to the opportunities and risks that present themselves. The flip side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla in Monaco</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=76</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=76#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our European sales launch, Tesla Motors participated as an exhibitor at Top Marques Monaco April 24th - 27th  where we met many of our first EU customers and many potential future customers.  We have a blog in the works, but meanwhile we wanted to give you a glimpse of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Launches European Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=75</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=75#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday the Financial Times ran a piece indicating that Tesla was now formally setting its sights on Europe. This is the first of what will be an increasing effort on our part to build the Tesla brand on the European continent with the anticipation of delivering cars to customers starting in the middle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mythbusters Part 2: The Tesla Roadster is not a Converted Lotus Elise</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more common misconceptions about the Tesla Roadster is that it is an electrified Lotus Elise. This has been an interesting problem to deal with because the Tesla is vastly different from an Elise and it is important that people are aware of this. In fact, we recently counted how many parts the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mythbusters Part 1: Airbags? We got ‘em!</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=73</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me cut to the chase and then rewind for the plot: contrary to some erroneous reports, the Tesla Roadster does indeed have driver and passenger airbags. 
Rewind: a while back I was talking with the web team about a desire to have a special blog created alongside these that would be reserved for us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: P1 Arriving Now! :)</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=72</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=72#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak Edson</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:56 P.M., an email was sent to all San Carlos based employees of Tesla Motors: “P1 Arriving Now!  .”
This simple email signified the moment we had been working toward for the last few years.  You see, “P1” is the internal designation for the first production unit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 vs. Dead Trees</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=71</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
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	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in December we finally had the opportunity to have all of the top car magazines put the Tesla through its paces on the roads of northern California. This was a major milestone for Tesla in that, for the first time, we were handing over the keys to third parties who were not customers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road with Motor Trend</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=70</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motor Trend Technical Editor Kim Reynolds joined us for a day of driving Validation Prototypes 9 and 10 on Monday (December 3). Kim is an understated guy, but very knowledgeable about EVs. Kim knew Alec Brooks, Tesla&#8217;s Director of Vehicle Technologies, from way back and told me stories about “back in the day” when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Drives</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=69</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years as a child I read every car magazine I could get a hold of, reading them cover to cover and dreaming of the day that I could buy a car. That’s one of the strange things about growing up in an apartment in Flushing, Queens (New York City). You don’t really need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battery Rumors Untrue</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=68</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=68#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in an article about Shai Agassi’s new startup, the New York Times incorrectly reported that the production delay we announced was caused by “battery related issues.” I spoke with John Markoff, the author of the article, and he said he was apologetic for the error and will issue a correction and change the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolving Landscape of EVs</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=67</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:  From todays Wall Street Journal

Hybrid or All-Electric? Car Makers Take Sides
 Debates in Tokyo
 Highlight Tensions Within Industry
 By JOSEPH B. WHITE in Tokyo and NORIHIKO SHIROUZU in Utsunomiya, Japan
 October 24, 2007; Page A13
 &#8220;Big auto makers revving up efforts to electrify automobiles are taking shots at each others&#8217; strategies, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pixels and Polygons</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=66</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vespremi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there it was. With a strange sense of accomplishment, I took it all in. The silver Roadster’s windshield was smashed, spider web cracks fanning out in all directions from under the mono-wiper. Along the driver’s side of the car, from nose to tail, the paint had been scraped away by what only could only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road with Hyatt</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=64</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=64#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid O'Connell</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m always excited to be setting out from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe. But it’s usually because I’ve packed the ski equipment into the car and I’m looking forward to getting away from work. On Wednesday morning, August 29, I was excited as I’ve ever been to head to Tahoe, but on this occasion, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concours d’Elegance – Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=63</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colette Niazmand</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can tell a full year has passed since we announced the Tesla Roadster because we’re starting to repeat annual events.  Last weekend we participated in the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for the second time. This is a terrific event held on the grounds of the Pebble Beach golf course each year.

Vintage Cadillac at
the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Energy Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=62</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid O'Connell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Public Policy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been listening to the news or reading the headlines from Washington D.C. of late, you’ve no doubt heard a lot about the recent energy debate on Capitol Hill. We’ve been right in the middle of it, and I thought it would be useful to get you folks up to speed on events from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving Dynamics - Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=61</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=61#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vespremi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last installment of the driving dynamics blog, we explored the interplay between static mass distribution and power delivery in the Tesla Roadster. That’s a complicated way of saying that we looked at how the Tesla Roadster drives based on two key parameters: its chassis architecture (mid-“engine,” rear wheel drive) and power delivery characteristics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheeling and Dealing</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it is a milestone to have a letter to the editor of Automotive News essentially addressed to me personally. Since we are big proponents of transparency and dialogue at Tesla Motors, I see it as a good thing to hear from other perspectives and be able to respond. Since there isn’t really a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Tour Part Two - Inside the Beltway</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 20:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid O'Connell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not be aware, but for the past six months Tesla Motors has been very busy in Washington, D.C. As with our consumer marketing efforts, we’ve been trying to get the word out to key influencers in the nation’s capital that there is a company in California that’s applying good-old-American ingenuity to address the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Tesla Store</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=58</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elon Musk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you asked people to rate whether they thought their car dealership was a good or bad place to visit, the response would be overwhelmingly bad.  In the typical dealership you will find:

Little or no comfortable place to sit, unless you&#8217;re ready to sign a sales contract.
Aggressive salespeople who want you either to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Tour with the Tesla Roadster</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=57</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vespremi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tesla Motors Team is on the road to the Midwest and East Coast for our 2007 Spring Tour. While we will not have an official Tesla Tour T-Shirt (as good as that sounds, it has probably been done before by some folks that don’t look much like us), we can offer something a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving Dynamics</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vespremi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn’t matter where we were going, on which freeway on-ramp we were merging, or even how fast the car was actually traveling. All that matters is that I was driving, I had a journalist riding shotgun, and I was just passing the imaginary apex of a decreasing radius turn with speed to spare. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogs Are Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=54</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=54#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we introduce a new evolution of the Tesla Motors corporate blog. As you can see, we have now gone from one blog to four &#8220;channels.&#8221; In addition, we will move away from posting predictably every Wednesday (well, almost) to a more fluid schedule. You might also see some more variation between blogs that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Need to Toughen Up on the Subject of EVs</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=53</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Michael Schnayerson&#8217;s book, The Car That Could, about the inside story on the development of General Motor&#8217;s EV1. It&#8217;s a fascinating read and I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of modern electric vehicle development. I had the good fortune of meeting the author during my first week at Tesla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Greenwashing&#8217; and Other Marketing Follies</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=49</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week before I joined Tesla Motors as the new Vice President of Marketing, I went to the San Francisco Auto Show to check out the Tesla Motors display and do some research on my new industry. I had to pinch myself, thinking that attending an auto show could be related to my day job. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Show Mania</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=40</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Harrigan</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tesla Motors wasn&#8217;t planning to attend an auto show this year. We had a simple marketing plan: viral marketing, public relations, and a great website. But a sequence of extraordinary events changed everything.
It started with an exclusive article in Wired Magazine&#8217;s August issue. And it continued with our launch event at Barker Hangar in Santa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tesla Roadster Experience:  Quick and Considerate</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=36</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Vieth</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How fast is it? That’s a common question we get at events where the Tesla Roadster is on display. To ensure that the Tesla Roadster is the right car for the prospective customer, we prefer to answer the “how fast” question with two additional questions:

What kind of fast are you looking for?
How skilled are you [...]]]></description>
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