My son Jamie and I were invited to go along on a scheduled tour of SpaceX, with the kind folks from New Deal Studios.
We left at 9am, again the philosophy was to keep it under 65 mph, no a/c, drove the 40 miles and arrived having used 40%.
After our visit we decided to head home and not overly mind the mph but keep it down with an occasional burst to 70 mph, run the a/c, etc for the 40 mile ride. We arrived home having used 40% of our battery charge! 20% left.
Space X is Space Exploration Technologies, founded by Elon Musk who is also responsible for the Tesla electric car.
We not only toured the entire manufacturing facility (800,000 lb thrust rocket motors, etc) but saw in the back of the building, in a little white tent, the first Tesla roadster along side two Model S prototype cars! A wonderful facility, where Boeing used to assemble 747's, is now Spacex where alongside rocket engines they are building the prototype Teslas completely in house!
All of this right here in Southern California, privately funded.
As we finished the tour, everyone wanted to see the Mini E. Soon the entire Tesla design team had spilled out of the building to surround our Mini E, inspect it and ask questions about range, performance, how we liked driving it etc, etc.
Talking with the youthful Tesla engineers and designers was truely a joy and I felt the passion they feel for what they are doing and the happiness they felt to see another electric car on the road, we all agreed that once you drive Electric, you don't want to go back to gas!
Super story Cooper E.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. My friend has a Tesla and we are both excited about each others cars.
He does make me buy the drinks because he says he can't afford to! :)
Cheers
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ReplyDeleteTry this again. :) Wow, what a great tour! Would love to have been there with you. If the Tesla S lives up to the hype, it might end up in our garage.
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