Loan news on a youtube clip?

TEG · 05-10-2009, 10:04 PM

Check out the cellphone conversation on this one !?!?:

YouTube Video

AnOutsider · 05-10-2009, 10:23 PM

Cool info indeed... I guess we'll see Monday if it's true.

doug · 05-10-2009, 10:47 PM

Wow... that guy probably didn't realize he was on the record.

I the "big announcement" is likely the one I expected them to make in New York and is separate from the loans. The Chicago Tribune article he refers to is the reprint of Dan Neil's LA Times story about driving the Model S mule/styling prototype. (In my opinion it was really premature to let any press drive that version of the car, by the way.)

Another interesting thing to notice is that there is actually a plate in that spot between the seats. All the Founders' and Sig100 cars (including some VPs like 12 and 16) have this spot which was to have special metal plate. This is the first time I've actually seen one there. The plate was supposed to have the signatures of everyone in the company or something like that.

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TEG · 05-10-2009, 10:51 PM

I think I can guess who "that guy" is and who he is talking to on the phone.
(But no point in speculating or trying to say anyways).

He had to know the passenger was filming him. Everything seems to end up on youtube these days.

dpeilow · 05-10-2009, 11:06 PM

That's almost too good to be true.

Notice he says the official loan announcement is coming at the end of the month, so the Monday thing has to be something else (factory?).

BTW I presume driving and talking on the phone is illegal across the US?

TEG · 05-10-2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dpeilow

BTW I presume driving and talking on the phone is illegal across the US?

Many such laws are either state or regional.
For instance, Illinois seems to leave it up to local municipalities to decide.

TEG · 05-10-2009, 11:22 PM

Cell phone ban goes into effect today :: News :: PIONEER PRESS :: Winnetka Talk

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...last October {2006}, Highland Park added a distracted driver clause -- enabling police to cite drivers for "inattentive actions" like using a hand-held cell phone, eating, drinking or reading -- to its negligent driving ordinance...

TEG · 05-10-2009, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dpeilow

...so the Monday thing has to be something else (factory?)

I thought I heard investment... Maybe GE or some big car company came through after all. Hopefully we know in the next couple of days!

James · 05-10-2009, 11:34 PM

That is an incredible coincidence for this guy to get a test ride in a Roadster with an owner of a Founders Series, and the driver gets a phone call while filming and the conversation is about news coming out on Monday.

Plus they expect the gov't loan to be announced by the end of the month.

Incredible if it actually happens that way.

The owner of the car is clearly an investor in Tesla Motors with that Founders Series plate. So he would likely be in the know.

dpeilow · 05-10-2009, 11:44 PM

Yes it is an incredible coincidence...

Yeah listening to it again, he says strategic investment before the video cuts.