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How the Tesla Model S is Made - Behind the Scenes
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Soooo many Teslas round my way. I see 4 or 5 every day.
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San Francisco Bay Area?
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Yes, San Jose to be more exact.
HQ is in Palo Alto and the factory is in Fremont, so they're both fairly close to me.
The Tesla S is really beautiful, I absolutely love the front.
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They make more money selling carbon credits
Then cars......just sayin..
Then cars......just sayin..
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Also live in the bay and I see at least a dozen a day. Gorgeous cars
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"Co-worker" just bought one, traded in his RS6 for it. Calls the Tesla Model S a game changer
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Best car I've ever driven, all that torque you get is crazy :x and now with all the new superchargers coming out around the country and a new more affordable Model S coming out in 3 years 
Tesla is gonna change the game the sound system they implemented is crazy too, you can literally put all of the sound in specific seats just by tapping the center console screen
Tesla is gonna change the game the sound system they implemented is crazy too, you can literally put all of the sound in specific seats just by tapping the center console screen
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can't wait till my stack so high i can cop one of these, spent a half hour playin with the model s the other night
Man I should have bought stock a couple years ago
You'll get your chance. Just be patient.
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[h1]Tesla's secret to success? Selling emissions credits[/h1]
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images
The Tesla Model S is introduced at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan on January 15, 2013.
by David Weinberg
Marketplace Morning Report for Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tesla vs. Fisker: Why some electric carmakers break down and others don't
Today the electric car company Tesla Motors is expected to announce it has turned a profit for the first time. That’s in part because of the success of its Model S luxury sedan, which costs anywhere from $70,000 to $100,000. But what has also led to those profits is money that Tesla made from selling California Zero Emission Vehicle Credits to other car companies.
To understand the complicated world of California’s credit system I thought I would start by visiting a Tesla store in Santa Monica, just a few blocks from the Pacific.
In the spare, white-tiled showroom at the Third Street Promenade, an upscale outdoor mall, I met Tesla's manager for the Southwest region Jeremy Snyder.
“The Tesla store experience is unique because we own all of our distribution and unlike dealer franchises, we control the entire experience,” Snyder said.
This is the first point in a very long list of ways that Tesla different is from every other car company Snyder explained. Another: Tesla keeps only a single car in its showroom -- the Model S.
Snyder led me to an alley behind the store where he keeps the test drive models.
“Why don’t I drive first. It will be easier to blow your mind,” Snyder said. He then touched a chrome panel below the driver side window and the door handle emerged from the side of the car.
We drove up the Pacific Coast Highway and it was kind of a mind blowing experience. The car accelerates with G-force speed. According to Snyder, Blue Angel fighter pilots have described it as the closest thing to an F-18 fighter jet on four wheels. He pressed down on the accelerator and we descended the on ramp toward the beach.
“That’s what we call the Tesla grin,” he said.
But perhaps its greatest engineering feat is its range of 300 miles on a single electric charge. And now the Model S can turn a profit thanks in part to California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Credits.
“The Zero Emission Vehicle regulation is a requirement that’s placed on the large auto makers to make and sell zero emission vehicles,” said Ana Lisa Bevan, with the California Air Resources Board. The board requires auto makers to turn in a certain number of credits per year.
Companies earn those credits by making and selling zero emission vehicles.
“So if a manufacturer has sales in California of, let’s say, 100,000 vehicles, and the obligation is credits equal to one percent of their sales, they have to come up with 1,000 credits,” Bevan said.
If a company comes up short, it has to pay a penalty of up to $5,000 per credit. Or it can buy credits from a company like Tesla, which happens to earn a lot of credits on every car it makes.Tesla has sold enough credits to post its first profit.
Correction: The original article misstated the title of Jeremy Snyder. He is Tesla Motors’ manager for the Southwest region. The text has been corrected.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/teslas-secret-success-selling-emissions-credits
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images
The Tesla Model S is introduced at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan on January 15, 2013.
by David Weinberg
Marketplace Morning Report for Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tesla vs. Fisker: Why some electric carmakers break down and others don't
Today the electric car company Tesla Motors is expected to announce it has turned a profit for the first time. That’s in part because of the success of its Model S luxury sedan, which costs anywhere from $70,000 to $100,000. But what has also led to those profits is money that Tesla made from selling California Zero Emission Vehicle Credits to other car companies.
To understand the complicated world of California’s credit system I thought I would start by visiting a Tesla store in Santa Monica, just a few blocks from the Pacific.
In the spare, white-tiled showroom at the Third Street Promenade, an upscale outdoor mall, I met Tesla's manager for the Southwest region Jeremy Snyder.
“The Tesla store experience is unique because we own all of our distribution and unlike dealer franchises, we control the entire experience,” Snyder said.
This is the first point in a very long list of ways that Tesla different is from every other car company Snyder explained. Another: Tesla keeps only a single car in its showroom -- the Model S.
Snyder led me to an alley behind the store where he keeps the test drive models.
“Why don’t I drive first. It will be easier to blow your mind,” Snyder said. He then touched a chrome panel below the driver side window and the door handle emerged from the side of the car.
We drove up the Pacific Coast Highway and it was kind of a mind blowing experience. The car accelerates with G-force speed. According to Snyder, Blue Angel fighter pilots have described it as the closest thing to an F-18 fighter jet on four wheels. He pressed down on the accelerator and we descended the on ramp toward the beach.
“That’s what we call the Tesla grin,” he said.
But perhaps its greatest engineering feat is its range of 300 miles on a single electric charge. And now the Model S can turn a profit thanks in part to California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Credits.
“The Zero Emission Vehicle regulation is a requirement that’s placed on the large auto makers to make and sell zero emission vehicles,” said Ana Lisa Bevan, with the California Air Resources Board. The board requires auto makers to turn in a certain number of credits per year.
Companies earn those credits by making and selling zero emission vehicles.
“So if a manufacturer has sales in California of, let’s say, 100,000 vehicles, and the obligation is credits equal to one percent of their sales, they have to come up with 1,000 credits,” Bevan said.
If a company comes up short, it has to pay a penalty of up to $5,000 per credit. Or it can buy credits from a company like Tesla, which happens to earn a lot of credits on every car it makes.Tesla has sold enough credits to post its first profit.
Correction: The original article misstated the title of Jeremy Snyder. He is Tesla Motors’ manager for the Southwest region. The text has been corrected.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/teslas-secret-success-selling-emissions-credits
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Technology is crazy. Not only designing a car, but designing the machines that make them.
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I love working there. Easy $.
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This car is nice and would live one but I think they still need to improve some things. Mainly having a car that cost over 100k fully loaded and not having that type of feel. That's the biggest problem for me. The design is cool but It looks like all these cars that are floating around nowadays esp the A7. Personally I wish it looked like the fisker with this system since fisker hit the skids lol. The fisker looks like a 100k + car the Tesla on the other hand not so much IMO.
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You don't have to be exotic looking to "look" like a $100,000 car.
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It should be a Ferrari Enzo that's electric. 
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You must be tired man get some sleep and come back tomorrow. I think that's the only way you don't understand what I'm saying or your stupid but I don't want to think negatively of you.
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Sure is.
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