Tesla Mule 1 - Where it all Began!

wiztecy · Jan 4, 2014

Article: http://www.iamknighted.com/articles/the-tesla-mule-1-where-it-all-began/

Vger · Jan 4, 2014

Great story and find!

djp · Jan 4, 2014

Here is Mule 2 at the factory - the first prototype that looks like a Roadster.

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tdelta1000 · Jan 4, 2014

Raffy.Roma said:
Cool! What about a new Tesla Roadster based on the Lotus Elise 2015?

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Of course I know that the new Tesla Roadster (Model R) will be completely built by Tesla with a Tesla chassis. I only meant to suggest a possible design for the Model R.

I think it would be a great baseline for the new Roadster.

brianstorms · Jan 4, 2014

The text in that article (indeed, the whole site) desperately needs copy-editing, yikes.

ecarfan · Jan 4, 2014

brianstorms said:
The text in that article (indeed, the whole site) desperately needs copy-editing, yikes.

Agreed. It reads like it was written by either a non-English speaker or a 4th grader.

Shumdit · Jan 4, 2014

brianstorms said:
The text in that article (indeed, the whole site) desperately needs copy-editing, yikes.

Whut you be talked aboot? Eye phelt it wuz veery well ridden.

Jurjen · Jan 5, 2014

brianstorms said:
The text in that article (indeed, the whole site) desperately needs copy-editing, yikes.

ecarfan said:
Agreed. It reads like it was written by either a non-English speaker or a 4th grader.

Shumdit said:
Whut you be talked aboot? Eye phelt it wuz veery well ridden.

Hi guys,

Thanks for reading the article, well my article, on the Mule1. These comments were completely justified, since we accidentally uploaded the draft of this piece and not the finished article. Our bad, we are fixing it. It was a correct assumption that I am indeed not a native English speaker (As a matter of fact I'm Dutch), but that doesn't mean that I can be held to a lower standard.

So thanks to everyone for their constructive comments and the compliment by Vger, much appreciated!

Jurjen

brianman · Jan 5, 2014

Jurjen said:
Hi guys,

Thanks for reading the article, well my article, on the Mule1. These comments were completely justified, since we accidentally uploaded the draft of this piece and not the finished article. Our bad, we are fixing it. It was a correct assumption that I am indeed not a native English speaker (As a matter of fact I'm Dutch), but that doesn't mean that I can be held to a lower standard.

So thanks to everyone for their constructive comments and the compliment by Vger, much appreciated!

Jurjen

Welcome to the forum! Your positive response to the ... less than kind ... critiques of your article is a breath of fresh air. Kudos!

ecarfan · Jan 5, 2014

Juries, welcome to the forum. I suspected the article was written by a non-native English speaker and I appreciate your efforts to correct the grammar and sentence construction. I freely admit I cannot write anything in Dutch without the assistance of Google Translate and even then the result would be terrible!

And I apologize if I inadvertently insulted you with my reference to 4th grade writing skills.

wiztecy · Jan 5, 2014

Thanks ecarfan for putting this article and pics together as well as for joining TMC! I'm more of a content person rather than a person critical of spelling and grammar myself, I've been around enough girls who were the same way and they enjoyed the sugar coating rather than the ingredients of my homemade deserts.

Looking forward in reading more Tesla articles coming from you!

vfx · Jan 11, 2014

This is early enough that Elon might not have been with Tesla yet. I remember Martin saying in a talk (TEG could find it) that he was the only one who was willing the cut up the new car they just bought.

TEG · Jan 12, 2014

Alignment knocked out of whack...

...As a treat... Rob said to walk over to the side of the garage..... we go into a separate bay of his garage and low and behold, its Tesla Roadster Mule 1!!! Mule 1 is the 1st Tesla Roadster built by the early Tesla Crew. It was their 1st concept car. Martin Eberhard had the fun took a sawzall to the Lotus Elise in order to make changes to the frame/structure to support the battery pack and mounted the electronics! So its really cool that Rob, the shop owner has it and owns it now :smile: Unfortunately the electronics and motor are pulled... Rob would like to build Mule 1 back up, so if anyone has connections let me/him know!...

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The drivable "mule" (modified Elise)

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http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/show...e-(modified-Elise)?p=6109&viewfull=1#post6109

Martin said:
The yellow Mule 1 started its life as a gasoline-powered Lotus Elise: an Italian-spec car with the Rover K-Series engine. Lotus imported the car to the US for show before they had any US-spec cars. When they were done with it, they could not sell it for road use in the US because it was not DOT-compliant, and it was not worthwhile to ship it back to Europe. Tesla bought it relatively cheaply from Lotus for conversion. The car was pretty much completely dismantled by the early Tesla crew, then re-assembled with early prototype drivetrain components.

I was the guy who got to take the sawzall to the Elise :biggrin:

Mark77a · Jan 13, 2014

brianman said:
Welcome to the forum! Your positive response to the ... less than kind ... critiques of your article is a breath of fresh air. Kudos!

+1 Well done Jurjen

Jurjen · Jan 13, 2014

Mark77a said:
+1 Well done Jurjen

Thanks Mark/Brian, critique enables improvement. It's true that Elon was not involved in this stage of the development.

There will be more Tesla stuff in the future. Thanks for the warm welcome at this forum, i'll be around!

jeffhre · Feb 12, 2015

ecarfan said:
Juries, welcome to the forum. I suspected the article was written by a non-native English speaker and I appreciate your efforts to correct the grammar and sentence construction. I freely admit I cannot write anything in Dutch without the assistance of Google Translate and even then the result would be terrible!

And I apologize if I inadvertently insulted you with my reference to 4th grade writing skills.

Inadvertent?

Thank you Jurjen for posting an amazing review of Tesla history. Really nice to be able to go back again without having look up a lot of references myself to check to see if my memory is accurate (which I am certain it would not be).

Chillout · Feb 13, 2015

Goed bezig Jurjen!
Good job

felixtb · Feb 14, 2015

ecarfan said:
Juries, welcome to the forum. I suspected the article was written by a non-native English speaker and I appreciate your efforts to correct the grammar and sentence construction. I freely admit I cannot write anything in Dutch without the assistance of Google Translate and even then the result would be terrible!

And I apologize if I inadvertently insulted you with my reference to 4th grade writing skills.

you should maybe also try to copy paste the posters name correctly.

ecarfan · Feb 14, 2015

Darn auto correct!

felixtb · Feb 15, 2015

ecarfan said:
Darn auto correct!

:biggrin:

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