Tesla Motors' new electric car, the Model X SUV, has room for 7 adults with front-facing third row seats -and falcon wing doors. Sweet!

CNNMoney
Tesla unveils its Model X SUV with 'falcon wings'
By Peter Valdes-Dapena @PeterDrives 
February 10, 2012: 8:41 AM ET, http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/07/autos/tesla_model_x_crossover/index.htm


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See another video of the launch at:
http://www.latimes.com/videogallery/67993418/Technology/Tech-Report--Tesla-Model-X


Los Angeles Times

Tesla announces Model X SUV for 2014, starts taking deposits
The electric SUV will share a platform, components and technology with Tesla's electric Model S sedan, which is slated to go into production this year.
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times
February 10, 2012, 9:59 p.m.

Tesla Motors Inc. has yet to deliver the much-touted Model S — the electric sedan it is making at its auto factory in Fremont, Calif. — but that didn't stop the automaker from taking reservations for a sport utility vehicle it doesn't expect to begin selling until 2014. 

Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-autos-tesla-suv-20120211,0,4608265.story


I last wrote about Tesla Motors' electric cars back on November 19, 2009 in a post about the introduction of their Roadster, titled, Get me a Tesla Roadster, stat! The sexy electric car that turns heads
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/get-me-tesla-roadster-stat-sexy.html

Unless you have a long extension cord... Electric Cars could be nothing but paperweights in So. Fla. as govt. bureaucracy stalls re-charging stations

CBS4/WFOR-TV video: CBS4's Al Sunshine investigates how "Electric Cars" could be largely useless without high-voltage re-charging stations that even its supporters acknowledge are years away in South Florida.

Article at:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/11/23/cbs4-investigates-electric-cars-could-be-stalled-by-paperwork/

Unless you have a long extension cord... how Electric Cars could be nothing but large paperweights in South Florida as govt. bureaucracy stalls high-voltage re-charging stations. And should the U.S. government even be in the business of giving grants or loans to some syndicates given how poorly the selection process is in this sort of crony capitalism, given the recent experience with Solyndra?

I'm still waiting for the hard-hitting multi-part investigation by local Miami-area TV stations into how it came to be that in the year 2011, South Florida doesn't have a single successful solar power, wind power or thermal power company down here that employs a reasonable amount of people paying good upper-middle class salaries and that AREN'T dependent on government handouts for its very existence.

Certainly more than even I would have guessed while living up in Washington all those years, the Miami Herald has gone out of its way since I returned to the area in late 2003 -esp. its business reporters!- to avoid publicly asking such basic yet troubling questions of the local business community and its so-called leadership, since if the newspaper was, the answers to those simple questions would be known by the majority of the well-informed populace here.

For those of you reading this who live far from Area Code 305 & 954, the fact that many American states much farther north in latitude are MUCH farther along in developing solar power capabilities than its natural capital, South Florida, should tell you plenty about the inadequate government/venture capital vision, planning and leadership in this part of the Sunshine State.

No, in this area, people with more money than sense still prefer to sink money into real estate and take advantage of out-of-state and foreign buyers.

You know, since they can't sell you swamp land any more.

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EPA worksheet: Clean Alternative Fuels: Electric Vehicles

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/fuels/altfuels/420f00034.htm

South Florida Regional Planning Council: http://www.sfrpc.com/

Map of Broward County electric vehicle charging facilities; 14 as of 2011.

http://www.sfrpc.com/fgcccc/ev_stns.jpg

EV Ready Broward: http://www.sfrpc.com/evready.htm

Get me a Tesla Roadster, stat! The sexy electric car that turns heads

Pull quote from below:
"And, man, talk about a babe magnet."



See also: http://www.teslamotors.com/
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Advertising Age

Tesla Motors: an America's Hottest Brands Case Study

By Jean Halliday
November 16, 2009

Unusual in the car business, Tesla Motors does no advertising and has no agency of record. Instead, the private, plug-in electric car outfit in Silicon Valley's San Carlos, has relied on the internet, word-of-mouth and CEO-co-founder Elon Musk. The South African-born entrepreneur is the reluctant face of Tesla. He described himself as "basically an engineer" whose "intrinsic nature is to be introverted."

Mr. Musk is regularly out stumping for his electric cars at conferences, with reporters and at the handful of company-owned dealerships in the U.S. and abroad. He made an appearance this year on David Letterman, who invited him after buying a Tesla Roadster. Tesla's Roadster has gotten visibility from appearing for free in 2008's "Iron Man" movie, BlackBerry ads and a coming California Tourism blitz.

Read the rest of the story at:
http://adage.com/article?article_id=140487







Here's an excerpt of the Churchill Club
interview in April where Musk explains
why fully EV trumps plug-in Hybrids
http://gas2.org/2009/05/10/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-explains-why-fully-electric-cars-trump-plug-in-hybrids-video/
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Per the article below, Ener1, Inc., which
owns 31% of Th!nk is also based in the
land of the Hoosiers.

http://www.ener1.com/ http://www.think.no/
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http://www.reuters.com/article/reuterscomService5/idUSTRE5AG5FE20091117

Norway electric carmaker Th!nk picks Indiana for U.S. factory

By Poornima Gupta

November 17, 2009