Random Roadster Sightings

[doug]

Very Orange with hard top spotted in the UC Berkeley parking structure.

 

[doug]

Monterey last August

 

[doug]

Roadster with jet option.

 

[TEG]

Funny - I was just looking at those photos.

So that is the extreme range extender?

 

[SteveF]

I wonder what the pricing is on that option?

 

[doug]

Silver Roadster with hardtop (and unsightly front plate holder). Spotted in Golden, Colorado.


(photo by customsnow162)

 

[doug]

With more Roadsters being delivered, we're starting to see them in a greater variety of places (e.g. not just downtown Palo Alto).

Brilliant Yellow (in Pennsylvania, I think)


Tesla - a set on Flickr

 

[doug]

VP26 parked yesterday outside of CBS Interactive (formerly CNET) in San Francisco.

 

[vfx]

A search on the Piston Heads Gassing station finds many pages on Tesla.

Here is a very positive "spotted" page with pictures.

And yes, one of us can be seen there as well.

 

[dpeilow]

Technically, there are two of us there. Look in the passenger seat...

I like to go to that site and keep them in order every so often. I'm probably overdue a visit...

 

[doug]

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Roadsters
Anthony Kiedis and Michael "Flea" Balzary's Roadsters parked on Silver Lake Blvd, LA

 

[doug]

Arctic White
premium two-tone, saddle/beige, saddle head restraint



Arizona plates

 

[vfx]

Flea did a "handing over the keys" blog back in 11/07. Love to have him write about ownership.

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Best white has ever looked.

 

[graham]

Via the San Jose Mercury News:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/companies/ci_11846245

Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor, met with the SJMN editorial board on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Afterward, he showed us his new Tesla electric roadster sports car

Q The Tesla already uses some of your chips. Anything more you can offer electric cars?

A The Tesla is rated at 250 miles round trip on a charge. The problem with that is if you want to go to Los Angeles you've got to find some place to have a 15-hour lunch. So our goal is to have that Tesla be able to make a round trip to Los Angeles before you have to recharge. We think we're well on the way. That's just optimizing the batteries and the way they work together, the same way we do with panel cells.

 

[dpeilow]

That would be around 700 miles. That would be an... impressive improvement in efficiency. I'm assuming they mean starting at Santa Clara.

 

[dpeilow]

 

[doug]

Very Orange with hardtop in Sausalito, CA

 

[dpeilow]

^ Model S in the background? :tongue:

 

[doug]

Crosscreek mall in Malibu, CA


Some interesting cars in the background. (CLS & Magnum, besides the Ferrari)

 

[SteveF]

Front license plate holder attached but no license plate. Waiting for the plates to arrive, I guess? The car looks nice!