First delivery scheduled ! (TeslaMotors blog)

[Hache]

June 22nd, and there will be live webcasting
New blog or video every tuesday from now on.
Some Model S updates:
- Adjustable regen(erative) braking
- Adjustable Resistance Steering Wheel
- Personalize your Suspension
- Range Testing

The countdown is on... It's time to deliver Model S! | Blog | Tesla Motors

Man I can't wait ! But this time, with all the news they gonna give, patience will not be bitter.

 

[efusco]

One month until somebody gets one...then the even more painful next 3 months knowing that people are getting them while I continue to wait!

 

[onlinespending]

I honestly don't mind the wait from the first deliveries until I get mine. We're talking a matter of 4 months. I can't wait to hear people's take on the car with actual hands-on experience. And I also can't wait to read the first several reviews of the car.

 

[doug]

So who will get the first car? Will it be Jurvi or Elon? Will they be delivering Signature cars or will it be a rumored Founders' series?

 

[AnOutsider]

I'm guessing Founders on that day, then more over the next week. Exciting times (and time to update the countdown)

 

[mwu]

The blog post notes that they will be posting info and video on the manufacturing process every tuesday from now until the first S deliveries. That should prove to be pretty interesting material.

 

[ckessel]

So who will get the first car? Will it be Jurvi or Elon? Will they be delivering Signature cars or will it be a rumored Founders' series?

I'm guessing Jurvi (don't know who that is though) since I know Elon has said before he wasn't #1. Effectively though, other than lowest VIN, the first few are all getting it at once since the press release says:

"Several customers will receive their cars that day at an invitation-only event at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California."

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

I'm guessing Jurvi (don't know who that is though) since I know Elon has said before he wasn't #1.

Steve Jurvetson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (on the board of both Tesla and SpaceX)

 

[doug]

I'm guessing Jurvi (don't know who that is though) since I know Elon has said before he wasn't #1.

Yes, sorry. Steve Jurvetson.

Video I took a couple years back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_VNCBzv97U#t=387s

His Flickr page on the same event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/3391941539/

 

[digitaltim]

Elon could be #0.

 

[tdelta1000]

Exciting news on my birthday!!! Tesla Motor is on the move.

 

[dsm363]

Exciting news on my birthday!!! Tesla Motor is on the move.

Yes. Happy Birthday too!

Very exciting news.

 

[tdelta1000]

Yes. Happy Birthday too!

Very exciting news.

Thanks!!! Happy Birthday and enjoy the day.

 

[dsm363]

Thanks!!! Happy Birthday and enjoy the day.

Just your TMC birthday today as far as I know. You get all the Tesla blog/birthday glory to yourself:smile: Have a good one.

 

[tdelta1000]

So who will get the first car? Will it be Jurvi or Elon? Will they be delivering Signature cars or will it be a rumored Founders' series?

It will be me when I rip open that Matchbox packaging right in Toys-r-Us...LOL. On a serious note I'm curious as well.

 

[Trnsl8r]

So who will get the first car? Will it be Jurvi or Elon? Will they be delivering Signature cars or will it be a rumored Founders' series?

From Crazy for Teslas | The Columbus Dispatch

"The policy was that only after the car was officially on sale and the price had been set could anybody reserve a Model S," Jurvetson said this week, recalling that board meeting in early 2009. "They were about to open the meeting, so without saying a word I whip out my wallet, where I always keep one check, fill it out for the full price of the car, and then toss it across the table. Everyone was stunned."

Especially Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the guy across the table.

"Elon looked surprised," Jurvetson said. "Then he said, 'Well, I guess you get the first car.'"

 

[Grendal]

Elon could be #0.

It wouldn't be much of an event if Elon turns around and hands the keys to himself. It's a much more "event" feel if Elon hands the first Model S key to someone else (Jurvetson) and that person drives away. Though I wouldn't doubt that Elon gets his in the first couple days. Or then again he might already have a Beta model that he's "testing."

 

[AnOutsider]

Although I assume it will be Founders, would be cool if Founders already got theirs and this will be an event for the first REAL customers (likely SSL people).

 

[onlinespending]

Although I assume it will be Founders, would be cool if Founders already got theirs and this will be an event for the first REAL customers (likely SSL people).

I don't know. I'm on the other side. It wouldn't exactly be very ceremonious if they simply let the founders get theirs on that event. I feel as if they wouldn't have used the word "customer" if they simply meant founders. Perhaps they've contacted the first dozen or so SSL reservation holders and will have a few of them at the event to receive their Model S. We already know some actual customers will get their Model S in June, so why hold an event if you're not going to include actual customers? Care to place a wager?

 

[digitaltim]

I am hearing (or maybe wishing that all Sig reservation holders will get the invite with the Top 10 (in CA and not Tesla employees or family members) receiving their vehicles on the spot.