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		<title>Electrifying the Gaming Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Burt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many owners I have met (in person, or via the web) I had multiple motives for buying a Tesla Roadster.   As a confirmed “car guy” who competes in Sports Car Club of America road racing and has owned many sports cars, I was intrigued by the performance characteristics and styling of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Didn&#8217;t Want a Roadster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Brechner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I didn’t want a Tesla Roadster, but we bought one and now intend to keep it. This is a story about how and why that happened.
My wife, Karen, and I weren’t interested in a sports car. We live in the Pacific Northwest. We care about the environment, but we also enjoy driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ride Free&#8221; - That&#8217;s My Motto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Edwards</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a Realtor from Greenwich, CT and I’ve been passionately following the development of electric vehicles for over ten years. I voted with my wallet in November of 2007 with a $5,000 deposit on a Tesla Roadster since it was by far the best alternative for me then, and it still is today. My Roadster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting National Security Has Never Been So Much Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McEwan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After serving as a U.S. naval  officer, including an assignment with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, John A. McEwan  founded Technology Advancement Group in 1984. TAG began in John’s garage but is  now a leading developer of information technology for the U.S. military.  (The U.S.  Navy is the company’s largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long, Porsche: The Roadster is my daily driver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Marks</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Marks was interim CEO of Tesla from August 2007 to November 2007. Before that he was  CEO of electronics manufacturing services company Flextronics. He sits on the  board of directors at several public and private technology companies, and he  has been managing partner of Riverwood Capital since March 2007. He took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PV+EV: We’re getting 72 miles per day of sunlight, or 72 MPS!</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rob Wilder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Rob Wilder is Manager of Encinitas, Calif.-based WilderHill  Clean Energy Index (ECO), the first Index on Wall Street for renewable energy,  better energy efficiency and zero-carbon solutions. He was previously on  faculty at U.C. Santa Barbara, and University of Massachusetts; he has been AAAS/EPA  Fellow in Environmental Science &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadster Road Trip: Silicon Valley to Yosemite</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Arnett</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bill Arnett is a software engineer who envies Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers – people who tried to understand a large fraction of all human knowledge. During an attempt to retire and spend more time on hobbies such as photography and astronomy, Bill decided to learn HTML by creating an astronomy site. It became so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Favorite Car</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Painter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Painter is a serial entrepreneur and car fanatic-in-chief at Zag.com, a technology company that helps buyers get up-front discounted pricing and no-hassle delivery from pre-qualified dealers nationwide. Zag.com aims to “remove the fear factor from the buying process.”

Scott is a maverick in the auto industry for pushing transparent online pricing nearly a decade ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Walter Mitty: Living a Dream as the 100th Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Perry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Perry is president of Silicon Valley startup consultancy Ascendance Ventures and a member of E2 – Environmental Entrepreneurs, the national independent business voice for the environment.
Sam gained fame last month after an intimate encounter with Oprah Winfrey was broadcast around the globe. Sam was caught in cameras standing next to the talk show icon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Glider to Roadster: Watching My Car Get Built</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Arnett</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Arnett is a software engineer who envies Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers – people who tried to understand a large fraction of all human knowledge. During an attempt to retire and spend more time on hobbies such as photography and astronomy, Bill decided to learn HTML by creating an astronomy site. It became so popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First week with the Tesla Roadster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Paine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Paine directed &#8220;Who Killed the Electric Car?” His new project is “Revenge of the Electric Car,” a documentary film and multimedia blog now in production. The film is slated for theaters in 2010.
When “Who Killed the Electric Car” premiered at Sundance in 2006, it surprised viewers with an exposé of what happened to California’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Factory to Our Garage</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Casner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Stephen Casner spent 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving the Tesla Roadster</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Rosen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Rosen, venture capitalist and former chairman of Compaq, is one of the most influential personalities in the technology industry. Under his leadership, Compaq Computer became one of the first companies to clone IBM&#8217;s PC design, enabling Compaq to become the world&#8217;s largest PC maker in the 1990s.
Less well known is Ben’s history as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying the Glider: Roadster Owner Ken Jacobs Tours Assembly Plant and Test Track</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Jacobs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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.



My wife and I, returning home to the US from a week in Morocco, spent a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys VI: Dr. Rob Wilder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rob Wilder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Rob Wilder is Manager of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, the first Index on Wall Street for renewable energy, better energy efficiency, and zero-carbon solutions. He was previously on faculty at U.C. Santa  Barbara, and University of Massachusetts; he has been a AAAS/EPA Fellow in Environmental Science &#038; Technology, Fulbright Fellow, and National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys V: Aaron &#8216;p-nut&#8217; Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron &#8216;p-nut&#8217; Wills is the bassist and youngest member of the band 311.  Known for his “funk-slap” bass style p-nut has brought his own sound and entertaining style to the stage.  Aaron had a recent opportunity to drive a Tesla Roadster around Santa Monica and through the hills of Malibu.  Following are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys IV: Michael &#8216;Flea&#8217; Balzary</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=57</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael 'Flea' Balzary</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael &#8220;Flea&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys III</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys II</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=55</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the Road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=54</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=54#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the Road</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Pink Bunny Slippers</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=53</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 19:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Solberg</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Senior Director of Engineering at work never specifically said that she would cause me bodily harm if I did not write a blog entry about my bunny slippers. So I wrote, “They are size 7-½ fluffy pinks with big ears and little, white puffy tails, and I really like them.”  She said that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The EV Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=52</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=52#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Casner</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Casner spent 25 years working on protocols and systems for transmission of audio and video over packet networks, starting before the Internet existed and continuing through the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE). He was recruited to the Silicon Valley to work with startup Precept Software and its IP/TV product, which was later acquired by Cisco. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=51</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Mittelhauser</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powering the Tesla Roadster with &#8216;Green&#8217; Electrons</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rob Wilder</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Photovoltaic</category>
	<category>Solar</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Rob Wilder is CEO of WilderShares LLC and manager of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, the first Index/Fund on Wall Street for renewable energy, better energy efficiency, and zero-carbon solutions. He is also a Lecturer at University of California, San Diego, and was previously on faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara, and University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Car, Enemy of the Good Car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Faiz Kayyem, PhD</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Faiz Kayyem, PhD, is a Managing Partner of Efficacy Capital, which manages a biotech public equities fund. He previously founded Clinical Micro Sensors, now an operating subsidiary of U.K.-based Osmetech. The firm uses advanced electronics and biochemistry to create electronic detectors of specific DNA sequences. Since 1997, Dr. Kayyem has been awarded 31 U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Fell in Love with the Tesla Roadster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Cox</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Cox is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Harald Trap Friis distinguished chair at Stanford University. He spent 25 years at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore developing revolutionary technology for what is now referred to as &#8220;cellular phones.&#8221; He has served on the board or as an officer of several Silicon Valley public companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battery Powered Cars – They’re Not Just for Kids Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Bressler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Bressler is a customer of Tesla Motors and owner of Bressler Vineyards, a small producer of super-premium Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. An expert in the Internet and networking technologies, Bob’s career prior to becoming a full-time vintner spanned executive positions at Sun Microsystems, 3Com and BBN. We asked Bob to share his perspective on [...]]]></description>
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