Dr. Rob Wilder is Manager of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, the first Index on Wall Street for renewable energy, better energy efficiency, and zero-carbon solutions. He was previously on faculty at U.C. Santa Barbara, and University of Massachusetts; he has been a AAAS/EPA Fellow in Environmental Science & Technology, Fulbright Fellow, and National […]

When we last discussed motor control on this blog, EP10 was drifting around on the frozen lake in Arvidsjaur, Sweden. At that time (January 2007), we were in the process of co-evaluating Conti-Teves’ ABS system in tandem with Tesla’s motor control. We left the lake thinking highly of the Conti system and moderately pleased with […]

On Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:56 P.M., an email was sent to all San Carlos based employees of Tesla Motors: “P1 Arriving Now! .”
This simple email signified the moment we had been working toward for the last few years. You see, “P1” is the internal designation for the first production unit to […]

Ten years ago when I was driving an EV1, one of the best perks was free parking and charging at LAX. I would pull into one of the EV parking places by Terminal One, plug in, and go on my trip. The charger would turn on right away – typically this would be […]

Aaron ‘p-nut’ Wills is the bassist and youngest member of the band 311. Known for his “funk-slap” bass style p-nut has brought his own sound and entertaining style to the stage. Aaron had a recent opportunity to drive a Tesla Roadster around Santa Monica and through the hills of Malibu. Following are […]

Early in December we finally had the opportunity to have all of the top car magazines put the Tesla through its paces on the roads of northern California. This was a major milestone for Tesla in that, for the first time, we were handing over the keys to third parties who were not customers and […]

It has been quite a while since I have put finger tip to key board and joined the Tesla blogosphere. This might have something to do with my being a little bit busy as we have been maturing the Roadster from an amazing prototype to a full-blown production car.
From Darryl: I am experimenting with a […]

The following is a letter that was sent to Tesla Roadster customers on December 21 to review key developments in the Roadster program. These updates were first revealed a week prior in a customer town hall meeting, which was hosted by Chairman Elon Musk and President and CEO Ze’ev Drori at Tesla’s corporate office. More […]

Given the recent management changes, some reassurances are in order regarding Tesla Motors’ future plans. The near term message is simple and unequivocal – we are going to deliver a great sports car next year that customers will love driving.
To give you some sense of our level of confidence, a few weeks ago we allowed […]

Motor Trend Technical Editor Kim Reynolds joined us for a day of driving Validation Prototypes 9 and 10 on Monday (December 3). Kim is an understated guy, but very knowledgeable about EVs. Kim knew Alec Brooks, Tesla’s Director of Vehicle Technologies, from way back and told me stories about “back in the day” when he […]