In October, Stephen Casner and his wife Karen toured the Lotus factory in England as their Roadster rolled off the assembly line. They took delivery at the Menlo Park store three weeks later. Stephen, who has written several other blogs about Tesla, describes the tour and his first impressions with the car. Read more…
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From the Factory to Our Garage
Published on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 in Company, On the Road.
Flying the Glider: Roadster Owner Ken Jacobs Tours Assembly Plant and Test Track
Published on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in Performance, Company, On the Road.
Ken Jacobs was one of the first employees at the relational database pioneer Oracle Corporation. He and his wife Margaret are thrilled to be early adopters and advocates for the pioneering Tesla, the car and the company.
Handing Over the Keys IV: Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary
Published on Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 in Company, On the Road.
Michael “Flea” Balzary likes to break new ground. With band mates Red Hot Chili Peppers, he pioneered funk metal, a sound that marries aspects of funk and hip-hop with traditional rock. He applied the same innovative spirit to his ride and now holds a reservation for a 2008 model year Tesla Roadster. In October, as part of our ongoing customer drive program, Michael got behind the wheel of our prototype Tesla Roadster. What follows is his feedback from the driving experience. As always, customer drive opinions are unedited by Tesla Motors. Read more…
Handing Over the Keys III
Published on Monday, October 15th, 2007 in Performance, Company, On the Road.
A critical part of the sales, marketing, and service function at Tesla Motors is to help inform product development and engineering decisions based on a customer perspective, a part of what we call “product marketing.” When validation prototype 10 (VP10) was built, one of the things we planned to use it for was to put a lot of miles on the car and provide marketing feedback to engineering teams for final refinements or validation. We recently scheduled rides with some of our customers to expand the feedback loop and asked them to share their driving experiences publicly on this blog. Customer opinions are unedited, save for my commentary in [brackets]. This week we present three perspectives from our latest testers. Find previous customer posts here.
Energy
Published on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 in Performance, First Post, Energy Efficiency, Company, Solar, Vehicle Engineering, Motor.
Jon Mittelhauser is one of the early developers of the World Wide Web. As a Master’s student at the University of Illinois, he co-wrote the first widely used web browser, NCSA Mosaic, and helped to define many of the earliest web protocols. Upon earning his Master’s degree for the work on Mosaic, he left the university and became one of the founders of Netscape Communications. Since Netscape he has worked for various startups (some successful and some not!). He currently spends his time as a dad, angel investor, and consultant for early stage companies. He also admits to spending a fair amount of time daydreaming about the Tesla Roadster, which he already has on order… Read more… |
