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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate><language>en</language><item>
		<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>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<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>
	<category>On the road</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>
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		<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>CARB Must Reject Staff Recommendation to Weaken ZEV Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=58</link>
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		<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>
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		<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>Mythbusters Part 3: Recycling our Non-Toxic Battery Packs</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kelty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Battery</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I make presentations at various conferences regarding our battery pack, or Energy Storage System (ESS), I’m often asked the question ”Isn’t the battery pack toxic” and whether or not it can be disposed of safely.  To reach a wider audience, I thought it best to address these questions in our blog.

Energy Storage System
First, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=74#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darryl Siry</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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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>
		
	<category>Company</category>
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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>Driving P1</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=56</link>
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		<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>The Spin Stops Here</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Baglino</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I highlighted how Tesla moved from  waves to bits  in our motor and charge controller in the PEM. You might have left with the impression that as of June 2007, when the DMC replaced the analog controller, our work as DMC firmware engineers was complete. Fortunately for us (this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus Engineering Newsletter  Q&#038;A with Tesla&#8217;s Car Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=64</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=64#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blog Editor</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of January, Tesla Motors Vice President of Vehicle Integration, Mac Powell, sat down with Dave Leggett of just-auto for a Q&#38;A session which recently appeared in the 24th issue of the Lotus Engineering Newsletter, proActive. We wanted to share with you this excerpt from the Newsletter as well as include some comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Over the Keys VI: Dr. Rob Wilder</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rob Wilder</dc:creator>
		
	<category>On the Road</category>
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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>The Evolution of Motor Control: from Waves to Bits</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=63</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Baglino</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Power Electronics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we last discussed motor control on this blog, EP10 was drifting around on the frozen lake in Arvidsjaur, Sweden. At that time (January 2007), we were in the process of co-evaluating Conti-Teves’ ABS system in tandem with Tesla’s motor control. We left the lake thinking highly of the Conti system and moderately pleased with [...]]]></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>Smarter Charging</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Brooks</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
	<category>Battery</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago when I was driving an EV1, one of the best perks was free parking and charging at LAX.  I would pull into one of the EV parking places by Terminal One, plug in, and go on my trip.  The charger would turn on right away – typically this would be [...]]]></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>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
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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>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>
	<category>Company</category>
	<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>50 State Legal</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=61</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=61#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Powell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Safety</category>
	<category>Crash test</category>
	<category>British</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a while since I have put finger tip to key board and joined the Tesla blogosphere. This might have something to do with my being a little bit busy as we have been maturing the Roadster from an amazing prototype to a full-blown production car.



From Darryl: I am experimenting with a [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>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>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the Road</category>
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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>Battery Rumors Untrue</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=68</link>
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		<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>Handing Over the Keys III</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:58 +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[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>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>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>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the Road</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=55</guid>
		<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>Where the Rubber Meets the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Simpson</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Battery</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I last posted to this blog in May, the news was a mixed bag.  Martin (Founder Martin Eberhard) had just officially revised our range expectations down from 250 miles to greater than 200 miles, but we remained committed to holding the line on 4 second 0-60 mph acceleration and delivering the Tesla Roadster [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=54</guid>
		<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>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>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>
		
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=64</guid>
		<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>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>The Most Coddled Automotive Battery Ever?</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Toomre</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Safety</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Battery</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get some great questions and comments from the readers of our blogs, and this post takes its title from Brent, who on May 30 wrote:
“ The Roadster’s battery is arguably the most coddled automotive battery in history.  It has its own climate control system, several monitoring computers, and perhaps some other mojo &#8216;they&#8217; [...]]]></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>The Magic of Tesla Roadster Regenerative Braking</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=58</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Solberg</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
	<category>Power Electronics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a battery-powered electric vehicle, regenerative braking (also called regen) is the conversion of the vehicle’s kinetic energy into chemical energy stored in the battery, where it can be used later to drive the vehicle.  It is braking because it also serves to slow the vehicle.  It is regenerative because the energy is [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=61</guid>
		<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>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>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>
		
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<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>Miles of Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=57</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 19:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Simpson</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They call me “the range guy” at Tesla Motors, which is fitting since it’s my job to characterize and improve the driving range of the Tesla Roadster. This means I get to:

Conduct official range testing according to EPA/CARB procedures,
Work with our development teams to extract the most miles out of the car,
&#8230;and best of all&#8230;
Spend [...]]]></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>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>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>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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=48</guid>
		<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>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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=57</guid>
		<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>Richard Feynman: A Curious Character</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wally Rippel</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Feynman is an icon for many employees at Tesla Motors. In 1959 the Nobel-Prize winning physicist delivered an inspiring lecture, Plenty of Room at the Bottom, that encouraged research into what would come to be known as nanotechnology.
The nano world plays a key role for many EV elements. It is what makes today’s state-of-the-art [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=56</guid>
		<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>Slip-Sliding Away</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=55</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Morrison</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Safety</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To ensure that the Tesla Roadster is as safe as possible in extreme conditions, we have just finished putting one of our Engineering Prototypes through an extensive test schedule at the Continental Proving Ground in Arvidsjaur, Sweden. The proving ground is in a beautiful location on and around a frozen lake about 60 miles from [...]]]></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 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>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=52</guid>
		<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>Tesla Roadster Progress - From EP to VP</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=54</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=54#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Powell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>British</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just achieved a significant milestone on our road to Tesla Roadster production. Our first Validation Prototype was assembled at the Hethel facility in the U.K. and was recently airlifted to our San Carlos, Calif., workshop to commence system testing.

VP1 at the Hethel, U.K., facility. The car is riding
a little high because the battery pack [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=53</guid>
		<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>Site Selection</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=52</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=52#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Lloyd</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Tesla Motors announced the selection of a site in west Albuquerque where we will build a 150,000 square foot assembly facility for our planned four door sports sedan, code-named WhiteStar. Response to the news has been tremendous, and we’ve received numerous requests for more information about the decision. Ron Lloyd, who headed up [...]]]></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>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>Solar</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=51</guid>
		<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>Cut From A Different Cloth</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=50</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=50#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrie Dickinson</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>British</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the earliest days of our work developing the Tesla Roadster’s body, we realized we had several major challenges on our hands. We had to achieve a low level of aerodynamic drag to increase efficiency, and we had to keep our mass down in order to maintain a high power-to-weight ratio and achieve maximum acceleration. [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=49</guid>
		<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>Powering the Tesla Roadster with &#8216;Green&#8217; Electrons</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rob Wilder</dc:creator>
		
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Photovoltaic</category>
	<category>Solar</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=48</guid>
		<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>Vintage Oil and Other Hare-Brained Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=47</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=47#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=47</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=46#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=46</guid>
		<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>Induction Versus DC Brushless Motors</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=45</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=45#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wally Rippel</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wally Rippel is a long-time proponent of electric vehicles. Prior to joining Tesla Motors, he was an engineer at AeroVironment, where he helped develop the EV1 for General Motors and was featured in the documentary movie, Who Killed the Electric Car? Wally has also worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on electric vehicle battery research, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Car, Enemy of the Good Car</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=44</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=44#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Faiz Kayyem, PhD</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Solar</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=44</guid>
		<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>Blowing Hot and Cold</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=43</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=43#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Randall</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: Our last blog, Good Vibrations, chronicled some of the safety and durability tests we&#8217;ve been running on the Tesla Roadster. It prompted a number of questions, particularly related to climate control. So we convinced Brian, who is fully booked during regular business hours overseeing the tests, to postpone his holiday shopping a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Vibrations</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=42</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=42#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Pavey Senior Director of Engineering &#38;</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>On the road</category>
	<category>Safety</category>
	<category>British</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine yourself strapped into a Tesla Roadster speeding down a rough cobblestone path intended to cause so much agitation that the ride stops being fun and starts becoming more like work. It&#8217;s just a typical day at the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), an engineering and testing facility where we are punishing two of our [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=40</guid>
		<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>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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=39</guid>
		<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>Never a Dull Moment</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=38</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=38#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Pavey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Company</category>
	<category>British</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
	<category>Power Electronics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At its heart, Tesla Motors is an engineering company. We get invited to a variety of events because of our technical expertise as well as a general interest in what we are doing and how we are doing it. I often get asked what it is like to work at Tesla Motors and to describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Fell in Love with the Tesla Roadster</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=37</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Cox</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
	<category>Motor</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=37</guid>
		<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>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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=36</guid>
		<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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		<title>Battery Powered Cars – They’re Not Just for Kids Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=32</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Bressler</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Energy Efficiency</category>
	<category>Batteries</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=32</guid>
		<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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		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=31</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=30</guid>
		<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>Safety first - ouch!</title>
		<link>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=28</link>
		<comments>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog4/?p=28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Powell</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>First Post</category>
	<category>Safety</category>
	<category>Crash test</category>
	<category>Vehicle Engineering</category>
	<category>British</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog continues to attract some fascinating questions and perceptions regarding the philosophies of energy consumption, alternative fuels, well-to-wheel efficiency and other significant issues that affect us all. Then there’s the technology of the car itself with its lithium ion battery pack, onboard charging system, power electronics to handle the immense energy available and that [...]]]></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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=25</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=24</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=22</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=12</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=9</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=8</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=7</guid>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stargate.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=3</guid>
		<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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