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Electric Tesla marks dawn of another generation from Toronto Star Wheels

Any updates on the Toronto store, actual location, time frames?

Tesla CEO following in Henry Ford's tracks At 38, Elon Musk has already shown his Midas touch. Now he is intent on proving Tesla Motors is plugged into the future of the automobile By Tyler Hamilton Energy and Technology Columnist Published On Mon Oct 12 Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO...

Albern, Thanks for posting the link and video :wink:

Totally cool Jalopnik just picked up the story and photo gallery. FYI: Yesterday I had some business on Bloor, and also did the photo shoot of the Tesla, put it up last night, at 9PM Auto North gets in touch with me to use the photos and a link, and today Jalopnik features the photos...

Avia2, Welcome! We spoke on the phone, I thought you would be there yesterday. The photo gallery is generating immense interest and being viewed a lot of people since it went up last night.

Albern, That is going est towards Bayview, folks are entitled to to whatever they want when driving. No did not go on Yorkville,its quite hectic in that area with all the TIFF activities.

More photos and slide show of the Tesla Roadster on Bloor Street...Click This is Rosedale Valley Road...Click the speed limit is 50 KPH

There is a Tesla Roadster displayed in Toronto at the Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor West, in front of the William Ashley store.

Its sad news, and perhaps a step backwards for the entire electric car mouvement especially that Tesla had become the "poster child" of electric cars. When a manufacturer spends millions opening dealerships with hardly any cars to sell or service, spends more money creating a presence in the...

From Automotive News Who knew? Electric cars are fun to drive Tesla test drive shows the appeal and some glitches GUIDO REINKING AUTOMOTIVE NEWS SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 - 12:01 AM ET A future in which we'll all be driving electric cars does not appeal to me very much. I don't have...

As anyone heard of, or seen prototypes of the car anywhere?

In the automotive industry at large Sept is the month where the model year changes over, model year 2008 is over and model year 2009 is commencing. Whatever most manufacturers have been assembling for the past few months for Sept release are model year 2009 vehicles. The model year designator...

It would seem that Tesla is anticipating pent up demand for the Roadster at a volume of 600 units per model year. Or that Tesla is balacing availability with demand at 600 units for each model year, and uphold the ability to raise prices substantially by automotive industry standards.

Cool photos!!! It would make sense that the fault light is on, the car was backed down to 105mph and 12,000 RPM from running flat out. Not much battery left...did it go into limp home mode?

When the manufacturer of electric car touts his car as being comparable to established supercars. Its only normal that the European press will put an electric car in a top speed sitiation, as well as high speed acceleration. The Roadster is a good 0 to 60 street fighter and starts to shut...

Valmet must be capable of operating a flexible assembly operation where they can assemble different vehicles for different customers from the same facilities.

A Tesla Roadster takes a dive under an older C Class and gets extensive coverage on the blogosphere which is "buzz" for Tesla. What probably "tees off" folks at Tesla is the speculations, comments, that emanate from such an incident from folks looking for their "millisecond" of fame. So a...

In most cases it would be the manufacturer that invites a club and its members to their facilities, not the other way around. In most instances when members meet its rarely done on the premises of the manufacturer, its usually easy to have 10-12 people sitting together in a restaurant and have...

Would love to attend, unfortunately I am nowhere near the Bay area.

TEG, Exceptional write up of your experience with the Roadster...with all the contributions that you have made you deserved a ride.

Excellent idea....for those in the area.

Since the Roadster is constantly compared to "exotics" and "super cars" which are usually toys not used for commuting the battery pack will last or should last several years. If the Roadster is used as a commuter car doing 12 to 18,000 miles per year...the customer would not want to own the...

So why is having 80 percent a problem? The article suggests the cars are not paid for but the are. Manufacturers pay for parts/components that are delivered just in time in a 90 to 120 day window to suppliers. It generates exceptional cash flow for them...in most cases as soon as the vehicles...

Tesla's wild ride is an informative read which mentions interesting details that were going on the background and sheds additional light.

Lets hope Martin gets his car sooner than later, and lets hope that he enjoys his car, he surely deserves to drive a Roadster. Especially that the folks at Tesla have had their moments of fame and glory with the first production Roadster. Hopefully once Martin gets his car he will give his...

What has put TTAC in a tizzy over Tesla is the fact that Siry committed to have TTAC road test the Roadster which has not materialised.

The way I see it this is a very new company and they need to be proving themselves every day. I need to make my decision about my wait list status in the next couple on weeks. I had hoped this trip would seal the deal. No one even approached me to have the opportunity for this to happen At...

By now the camo look is accepted industry practice to show prototypes, and generate buzz. When will we start reading headlines about the Silicon Valley electric sedan wars? Or are we, with the exception that its not 0 to 60 times, but has a working prototype.

TEG, Thank You for posting...the coolest thing about the video is the travel along the course of the upcming F1 race, under the tunnel, the distance markers for the S after the tunnel, the grandstands going up, and getting a view of the course under normal conditions. The Tesla...by now its...

Fisker unveiled the Karma at the Detroit Auto Show in January, and it probably took 3-4 months "to do" the car...the design was probably finalised in mid 2007 for the Karma...Fisker subsequently shopped for someone to turn the design into a car that could be shown. If Fisker did work for...

Lotus is not in the sedan business. There are enough "enterprises" in southern California that can design and build cars that it could be overwhelming in making a choice. Designing and building a prototype is relatively easy crossing the chasm to actually building a car on an assembly line...

One faction of Silicon Valley venture capital is backing one manufacturer, the other faction another manufacturer. One faction wants to upper hand on the other faction. Both cars are "on paper" with estimated production dates with the exception that one has been shown at a major auto show a...

Is there an actual paying customer that has taken delivery of a Tesla yet?

This car plans on competing with Whitestar while emitting wine from the exhaust...Click

Could we agree that a bona fide paying customer should be at arms lenght from Tesla?

TEG, Thanks for posting the photos.

The reality of any mass production electric car will be the affordability of the car, accompanied by how much additional money the avarage consumer is willing to spend. That anyone announces whatever at whatever time there are the folks in the EV camp that create a lot of PR noise with limited...

Tesla has the very best electric car that is available, its the reason the Tesla Roadster has been capturing peoples hearts and imagination. Back to the same story, the sooner Tesla starts to deliver Roadsters, the sooner Tesla gets in the car business the better it will be. The more...

These are the folks that modify a Z06 into a C6RS Pratt&Miller

Tesla seems to be in hyperbole mode again...they have more sold cars in the US than they know how to build, they have shown the car in Canada (probably got free space at the Montreal Auto Show) and now with the weak dollar they are going to sell cars in Europe. If I'd have a deposit on one of...

TEG, A car guy exudes and oozes passion its there 110% of the time, its automatic, its innate, its part of the person, especially when presenting your pride and joy...there is excitment, there is electricity. Having the funds to buy an F1 or invest in a EV company does not make an...

Most of Jay's interviews are in the same fashion, he lets the guest presenter do the presentation first, Jay is always down to earth, very realistic, and pragmatic when he reviews any of his cars. Any car guy as an innate understanding that EV's are a future oriented direction for commuter...

From the video the car is shipped as a glider from England with the electric motor, battery pack installed by Tesla in San Carlos.

Thanks for the link! Interesting that most of the Tesla Hyperbole quickly evaporated with the car at Jay Leno's...it was refreshing not the hear the 0 to 60, and supercar hyperbole from most of the other presentations that Tesla has made or expected reviewers to mention. Finally a realistic...

When cars had a 3 speed or 4 speed manual transmission with direct in the top gear the 30 to 70 accleration test in top gear had some relevance. Especially for larger sedans with relatively big engines that could have ideally used an automatic transmission at that time. One of the strong...

The "powertrain" motor / transmission are intalled by Lotus with the battery pack installed in San Carlos.

The cost effective way to ship vehicles across the Atlantic is "RoRo" with specialised vessels that carry only vehicles, that stop at specialised ports that handle vehicles. These VPC (Vehicle Preparation Centre) are extensively equipped to perform a variety of work on any vehicle once it...

I remember seeing photos of the car Elon is driving sitting very high until the powertrain and battery was installed in the car. If they ship by boat in the future the cars would require a powertrain since its RORO on the boats, with the real possibility of having dead batteries on several...

Once they actually deliver cars to customers, actually have dealerships, actually make an attempt to actually sell a car from the showroom, take another car in trade, and close a deal. The comments will become more pragmatic. Being transparent and giving everyone an opportunity to voice...