Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store

Tesla Motors has opened their first retail store front to allow the masses access to their new cars. Of course, this is assuming you can afford the $109,000 price tag. "The company told the Associated Press that it is impressed with demand: it has taken 600 orders for the Roadster and has a waiting list of another 400. CEO Elon Musk owns the first one produced. The fancy showroom near Beverly Hills takes its inspiration from Apple stores, Musk said. [...] The company plans to make a luxury sedan next year called the Whitestar that will come in two versions: an all-electric model that will run entirely on its lithium ion battery pack, and a range-extended vehicle that will also use liquid fuel to extend its range. The Roadster will have a range of 220 miles per charge and the mileage equivalent of 135 miles per gallon."

hehe

[mdaitc]

Tesla Roaster?

new battery powered kind of way to cook Turkey?

That's cheap!

[randyest]

Tesla Motors has opened their first retail store front to allow the masses access to their new cars. Of course, this is assuming you can afford the $109,00 price tag.

Only $109? That's amazing. But why is slashdot suddenly using the European decimal punctuation?

Bad omen?

[Itninja]

plans to make a luxury sedan next year called the Whitestar

I seem to remember another European company called White Star. I think they were in the news a few years back about some unpleasantness surrounding a shipwreck or some such. Said the Tesla CEO, "Even God himself couldn't wreck this car!".

Re:hehe

[Harold Halloway]

There's no air-con...

Hot product!

[Reality Master 101]

The Roaster will have a range of 220 miles per charge and the mileage equivalent of 135 miles per gallon.

The Roaster? I didn't realize they were using Sony batteries! Or are they also taking inspiration from Apple laptops as well as their stores?

Re:If there was only a cost friendly version

[sm62704]

If you can't afford a $100,000 car you can't afford solar panels and wind turbines.

Rods per hogshead

[cocotoni]

Before anyone asks, 135 miles per gallon is 2 721 600 rods per hogshead.

And that's the way I likes it!

Re:Public transportation

[toddhisattva]

Or horses, which are as green as transportation is going to get.

That is a load of horseshit.

Re:Air Bags

[EatHam]

Well, the solution to that problem doesn't revolve around air bags, it revolves around not dating 11 year olds.

Re:Public transportation

[strack]

Bloody hippy paradise. Intangible benefits to public transportation? How bout the highly tangible drawback that public transport could never be as convenient as a car. Oh, and good luck carrying anything large. Also, people aren't gonna hug their neighbors more cause there on a bus.

In other news....

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

Dragonweezel opens up a donation site @ paypal to try and garner enough captial to start his new company "AdvertiseOnMyTeslaRoadster.com"

Donate now!

Re:Air Bags

[q-the-impaler]

Tami's under five feet tall, which makes air bags dangerous and even deadly for her.

wtf is a Tami?

Oddly enough Tami is a blow-up doll. Go figure.

Hawt!

[Spacepup]

I'm a girl. I'm not into cars. I drive a low end toyota because it was cheap and gets great gas mileage. But. that. car. is. HAWT! I just need to convince 110,000 suckers to give me 1 dollar each.

Re:Air Bags

[Anonymous Coward]

So is she an alien too? I see the army has run out of (human) soldiers so needs to get them from other planets...

Re:Hawt!

[Bucc5062]

You're a girl on /. ... that should not be hard.

Re:Tame racing driver

[427_ci_505]

Some say he reads Slashdot every day,

and others say that despite this, he still can pick up chicks.

All we know is, he's called The Stig.

Re:Hawt!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you overestimate the average slashdotter's cardiological capacity to withstand the shock of a girl actually speaking to him.

Further, I think you underestimate the cynicism of any slashdotter surviving such an encounter. (i.e. Cue the 'it's a trap' meme.)

Re:That's cheap!

[Oktober Sunset]

haha, butt slammed by offtopic.
Just goes to show that contrary to popular belief that mods just just sheepishly give you whatever moderation you suggest at the end of your post, funny.

Re:Where does the electricity come from?

[drinkypoo]

Electric cars are a great idea but unless the electricity to recharge their batteries is coming from a renewable resource I don't quite see how this really helps.

Due to the inefficient way in which power plants work they have excess power at night. The system will sustain a lot of people getting full-EVs if they just charge during off-peak hours and meanwhile they'll be using power that is currently literally wasted.

Re:That's cheap!

[Mr. Beatdown]

I think it's in Verizon notation.

Re:Hawt!

[OMNIpotusCOM]

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

Re:That's cheap!

[justinlee37]

If I had mod points, I would mod you informative, and that would be funny.