<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Tesla Whitestar]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Tesla Whitestar]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/tesla whitestar http://jalopnik.com/tag/tesla whitestar <![CDATA[Tesla Model S Electric Sedan Mostly Revealed]]> Tesla once again teased the Tesla Model S, an electric sports sedan with a 225-mile range and a $60,000 price, which we heard yesterday will debut March 26 and get built — maybe, eventually. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5152209&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Peek Inside The Soon-To-Be-Dead Tesla Motors Detroit Office]]> Given the situation with Tesla Motors lately, you know, Ze'ev Drori getting the boot and Elon Musk taking the reins as CEO, word of firings of "25-30% of their total staff of 300 employees and contractors" and the closing of the Detroit location (more accurately, the Metro Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, MI) via blog post, it's no wonder an anonymous reader decided to head out to their Rochester Hills office and take a look. The Rochester Hills facility was opened at the end of January 2007, and was to be the development facility for the Tesla Model S electric sedan, so the closing is a foreboding indicator of the future direction Tesla is heading on that project. Let's take a look inside this essentially doomed location... More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065982&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Automaker Lays Off Detroit Office With Blog Post]]> UPDATE: Tesla notifies Detroit workers already-in-the-know they were laid off two days ago...today! In a sign of what this new Financiapocalypse might bring, employees in the Metro Detroit branch of electric car maker Tesla Motors were laid off via a blog post. Yesterday, we reported that Tesla would be cutting back and reorganizing, which included shutting down the office in Rochester Hills, near Detroit. Unfortunately, no one told the employees in Rochester Hills. Some of them logged on to find that they were now, according to their own website, obsolete. But it gets worse. We're hearing that approximately 90 Tesla employees, or 90% of the Detroit office, was simply let go, and the remaining employees have to make their way to the San Carlos headquarters with no moving costs covered, no increase in salary and no help getting rid of their old homes. Fortunately, the real estate market in Detroit is red-hot, and the cost of living is about the same in San Carlos.... right? The relevant section from the Tesla pink slip blog-post-of-death below:
There will also be some headcount reduction due to consolidation of operations. In anticipation of moving vehicle engineering to our new HQ in San Carlos, we are ramping down and will close our Rochester Hills office near Detroit. Good communication, tightly knit engineering and a common company culture are of paramount importance as Tesla grows.
That's right folks, "good communication" is key. [Photo: James Nielsen/Getty Images] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5064700&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tesla Motors Plans To Slow Down Production Plans For Model S Sedan]]> Tesla has announced the company will be slowing down production plans for the Tesla Model S sedan project until the government forks over some dough. This is just part of the news coming out of Tesla Motors, which also announced that they've demoted their CEO (and replaced him with main benefactor Elon Musk) and will be making serious cutbacks to their staff. In a blog post Musk said: More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5064073&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2011 Tesla Model S Electric Sedan To Be Produced In Silicon Valley]]> Priced around $60,000, capable of 240 miles on a single charge and producing no emissions, the Tesla Model S sedan will begin rolling off its new assembly line in California in late 2010. That’s only shortly after Chevy Volt’s scheduled mid 2010 production start date. Unlike the plug in Volt, the Model S will be fully electric. Tesla’s new factory will be located in San Jose and employ approximately 1,000 workers. Construction is expected to begin next summer. The Tesla Roadster will continue to be produced in England by Lotus, making the Model S Tesla’s first American-made vehicle. Full details follow the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5051679&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tesla Whitestar Sedan Powertrain Mule Caught Lurking About, Wearing Dodge Magnum Skin]]> This seemingly normal-looking Dodge Magnum caught by the forum fan-boys at Tesla's future Menlo Park store hides something more electric under its skin. We're told it's a powertrain mule for the Tesla Whitestar (or Tesla Model S) sedan just announced this past week. The tell-tales are the different rear wheels and lack of any rear license plate, but look closely, and you'll see there's also no visible tailpipe. Also, Tesla PR claims it is, in fact, a Model S mule. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397967&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tesla Seeking Hot $250 Million Cash Injection For Whitestar Sedan]]> The boys (and gal) over at our sister site obsessed with Silicon Valley let us know earlier Tesla's looking for a hot cash injection via IPO to help the purportedly struggling Whitestar sedan. According to Valleywag: More »
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