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09-17-2008, 05:25 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 634 | I heard people from near that area say it smells pretty bad because of the water treatment plant. Anyone know if this is true?
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09-18-2008, 07:39 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,240 | Quote:
Originally Posted by stopcrazypp  I heard people from near that area say it smells pretty bad because of the water treatment plant. Anyone know if this is true? | Oh No!
Is that why there's an "S" in Model S? 
Let's see the design, already!
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09-18-2008, 08:08 AM
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#34 | | Tesla Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,980 | Quote:
Originally Posted by malcolm Is that why there's an "S" in Model S? | S Car Go Joke | |
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09-18-2008, 09:18 AM
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#35 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,606 | Quote:
Originally Posted by vfx Guy under the hood is Bob Sexton. | Yes, I met him at the Menlo Park store a couple weeks ago. Nice guy. | |
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09-18-2008, 09:30 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 586 | Quote:
Originally Posted by malcolm Oh No!
Is that why there's an "S" in Model S?
Let's see the design, already! |
I have a hunch Tesla is further along in their design than they are revealing. I think they're taking a hint from GM's playbook not to reveal too much because it leads to expectations and demands they can't quite perform. GM has learned to reveal a little bit more with the Volt's design probably from Tesla. Somewhere in there is likely a happy balance to promote a product but also not build unreasonable expectations. Just my opinion with nothing to substantiate the claim.
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09-18-2008, 10:03 AM
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#37 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aptos, California Posts: 1,551 | Quote:
Originally Posted by stopcrazypp I heard people from near that area say it smells pretty bad because of the water treatment plant. Anyone know if this is true? | It can smell in that area - but I always attributed the smell from being so close to the bay, and smelling the decomposition in the marshlands there. I suppose it may have been coming from the treatment plant instead. | |
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09-18-2008, 10:44 AM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,240 | When the Roadster came out, there really was nothing else like it. Teething problems were all too public. Tesla Motors - think
But then Model S will have to sit alongside a lot of copycat products with brash claims in 2010/11, so it could be argued that Tesla should be shouting even louder. If GM are going to try to market the Volt as just an EV (and play down the Extended Range bit) is their playbook something Tesla should be following?
Anyway, I thought they were going to re-write the rulebook.
I felt that Marty Taft's knowledge and experience were somewhat wasted in the latest Engineering Blog. Apparently he bakes. There's a great story right there.
So NOT GM: Tesla Motors - hear
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09-18-2008, 12:05 PM
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#39 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,606 | San Carlos sad to see Tesla go. Redwood City Daily News Quote:
... some San Carlos officials were wistful at the prospect of losing one of their city's most famed local businesses.
"I'm very glad they're staying in California," said Sheryl Pomerenk, of the San Carlos Chamber of Commerce. "But of course I wish it were San Carlos."
Council Member Matt Grocott described the move as "regrettable" but acknowledged that San Carlos doesn't have the land area to accommodate a factory.
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"One of the big appeals of the San Jose site was that it was so large that we could make a consolidated campus and stay in Silicon Valley," said Tesla spokeswoman Rachel Konrad. "The Bay Area is pretty densely packed - There's not a lot of places where you can get 89 acres."
The fate of the company's San Carlos offices remained less clear Wednesday.
Konrad said all R&D and corporate functions would eventually move to San Jose, assuming the deal goes through. But "it's impossible to say for certain what will remain in San Carlos," she added.
However, if the proposed San Jose development fails an upcoming environment inspection, Tesla would consider building an assembly plant in Vacaville and keeping its headquarters in San Carlos - the company's home since its 2003 launch, Konrad said.
Assistant City Manager Brian Moura speculated that the company might hold on to the San Carlos office space even if it moves most of its operations to San Jose.
"They've been expanding pretty rapidly and they keep expanding, so who knows, they may need the space here in addition to what they're doing in San Jose," Moura said.
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09-19-2008, 05:36 AM
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#40 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aptos, California Posts: 1,551 | Apparently Richmond had also been considered for the new assembly plant: San Francisco Sentinel Blog Archives RICHMOND ‘MEASURE T’ WILL HURT SMALL BUSINESS Quote: |
And the tax measure may have already cost the City of Richmond the chance to land the electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors. It is being whispered that the prospect of Measure T in Richmond turned them off and so they went to San Jose instead.
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