Didn't get a chance to post about the opening till now.
It was a nice event. I can't say that there were any real celebrities there (like we saw in the coverage of the LA event), but many familiar Tesla faces where there. I managed to chat with Darryl, Elon, JB, and some other Tesla folk. Ze'ev Drori was there as well as other Tesla executives and board members. Spoke with
Steve Casner and his wife and recognized some other "hear" bloggers. Even briefly saw Marc Tarpenning there.
The cars:
In the front show room were EP9 (electric blue) VP17 (radiant red), the aerodynamic buck and the fiberglass car (as seen in WKTEC and Ironman). In the large back service area were VP16 (glacier blue), VP1 (signature green), VP11 (thunder gray), and EP5 (yellow). Back in the super secret garage (where the drivetrains will be installed) were the familiar EP1 (black) and EP2 (red) in various states of disassembly as well as two customer cars. Oh and VP13 (very orange), which Elon had pulled up in, stayed parked outside till the end of the evening.
The place is pretty huge. A band played for a bit, but the whole thing was pretty low key by my standards. A bar tender told me that the event the previous night was a bit more active. Turns out it was the employee party, apparently a hipper younger crowd. :wink:
Met several TMC forum members that were there but certainly not all of them. We should have gotten that secret handshake/gang sign thing worked out. I did talk to a Tesla guy in marketing about having a forum meet at the Menlo Park store is he was quite supportive. So I'll probably start
another thread to gauge interest for that.
