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Matt Damon To Save World Again, This Time With Tesla Roadster
Everyone's favorite Film Actors Guild member, Matt Damon, was spotted yesterday driving a baby blue Tesla Roadster. Just like the common people, Damon's been unable to purchase a Tesla yet, the company is still sorting out nagging quality issues and ramping up for full production. Tellingly, Damon's tester was only capable of operating in high gear, leaving the actor a bit nonplussed with its off-the-line performance, but says, "the 30-60 acceleration is like nothing else."[via Autofiends]
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Tesla Spotted In Palo Alto, Price Of Electrons Climbs
A few months before I started writing for El Jalop, one of the few Mercedes-Benz F-Cell fuel cell cars parked on my block for while, and I'm still kicking myself for not photographing it. The anonymous tipster who sent in the shots of a Tesla Roadster he found parked in Palo Alto, on the other hand, had his camera primed and ready when the moment of truth arrived. Good work, anonymous tipster!
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PopMech Analyzes The Tesla Lawsuit Shenanigans
This week we heard about a couple of lawsuits mythical electric sports car almost-manufacturer Tesla has managed to get tied up in. The first one saw Magna suing Tesla for breach of contract over its transmission design, the other was Tesla going medieval on Fisker for allegedly stealing designs associated with the Tesla Whitestar Hybrid for its Fisker Karma Hybrid. Well Popular Mechanics has gone out and consulted a lawyer-type about the guts of these lawsuits and what the likely outcomes of the twin tussles might be. We just want the slap fights to be over. [Popular Mechanics]
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Tesla Roadster To Get Federal Air Bag Exemption, Drive Slowly
As part of the ongoing Tesla Roadster safety certification, the NHSTA is giving the company an important air bag exemption. The waiver was given because the company was losing money and would "have to cancel its pending development of an electric-powered sedan, and would ultimately have to terminate its operations." Of course, the government would like to encourage the development of alternative fuel/electric vehicles and looking the other way on this is something they've deemed reasonable.More »
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A little birdie (who may or may not be the VP of Sales and Marketing at Tesla) just sent in this photo of the construction wrap that's currently shrouding the future home of a Tesla store. It's located on Santa Monica Blvd., just east of the 405, home to some of the world's most wretched traffic and close to lots of celebs and environmental types. A Tesla dealership seems to balance out the news we reported last week that storms clouds are gathering for the world's first electric production sports car. [Yeah, or not so much balance out the news from last week at all. — Ed.] The truth? You couldn't handle the truth! Er, I mean, we'll tell you more when we know. Bigger pic below.
Tesla Store Being Built in Los Angeles
A little birdie (who may or may not be the VP of Sales and Marketing at Tesla) just sent in this photo of the construction wrap that's currently shrouding the future home of a Tesla store. It's located on Santa Monica Blvd., just east of the 405, home to some of the world's most wretched traffic and close to lots of celebs and environmental types. A Tesla dealership seems to balance out the news we reported last week that storms clouds are gathering for the world's first electric production sports car. [Yeah, or not so much balance out the news from last week at all. — Ed.] The truth? You couldn't handle the truth! Er, I mean, we'll tell you more when we know. Bigger pic below.