Tesla Motors is introducing a new, all-electric roadster. They claim a 250 mile-per-charge range, 0-60 in about 4 seconds, a top speed over 130 MPH and a recharge time of about 3.5 hours.
Is Tesla Motors a subsidiary of GM, Ford, Toyota or Honda? Oh, no. It's the brain child of Martin Eberhard (who, not surprisingly has a blog), a Silicon Valley electronics engineering entrepreneur and start-up veteran. He figured that Detroit didn't know jack about how to efficiently harness a battery. File this under "If you want something done right..." You know the rest.
Here's a search at AutoBlog.com for Telsa-related articles.
Wired.com has written an article.
If I had $80K floating around that I didn't need, I'd be all over this little baby.... except... it looks a bit cramped for the 6-foot-plus crowd...
Fwiw, a sedan is in the works for release in 2008. (yawn)
There are photo layouts at both Tesla Motors and at Wired. Check this out. Very cool.
Friday, July 21, 2006
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Mom's Going On-Line
Holy Cow! Stop the presses!
Me Mum is writing web pages!
Mom (AKA Nora) is a member of a group of women called Women Sharing Christ (WSC). Once a year the group hosts a one-day Christian conference for ladies. There's a well-known Christian speaker (so far, all have been women), a continental breakfast and lunch.
WSC decided they need a web site for this year (which she's gotten almost zero help on). Mom spent most of her professional life in technology: mainframe Cobol programmer, project management, special projects research and after semi-retiring, contract work writing bids for CSC for multi-billion dollar contracts. Because of her background, she's been honored (saddled?) with implementing this web site.
Back in the day, Mom used to sling Cobol untold years ago, she's never really gotten into the 'Net or any of its related technologies. She doesn't even like to surf (how can THAT be???). She just got broadband last month when she replaced her aging Windows 98 desktop box.
So, now Mom's learning HTML and CSS. She's bought some books and CoffeeCup for her HTML editor, and is charging forward with this web site thing.
Mom's doing web pages.
My Pop is probably spinning in his grave (why that is will be left for a future post).
Me Mum is writing web pages!
Mom (AKA Nora) is a member of a group of women called Women Sharing Christ (WSC). Once a year the group hosts a one-day Christian conference for ladies. There's a well-known Christian speaker (so far, all have been women), a continental breakfast and lunch.
WSC decided they need a web site for this year (which she's gotten almost zero help on). Mom spent most of her professional life in technology: mainframe Cobol programmer, project management, special projects research and after semi-retiring, contract work writing bids for CSC for multi-billion dollar contracts. Because of her background, she's been honored (saddled?) with implementing this web site.
Back in the day, Mom used to sling Cobol untold years ago, she's never really gotten into the 'Net or any of its related technologies. She doesn't even like to surf (how can THAT be???). She just got broadband last month when she replaced her aging Windows 98 desktop box.
So, now Mom's learning HTML and CSS. She's bought some books and CoffeeCup for her HTML editor, and is charging forward with this web site thing.
Mom's doing web pages.
My Pop is probably spinning in his grave (why that is will be left for a future post).
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