Tesla one sweet company car

[Doug_G]

Tesla one sweet company car

This article appeared in this morning's Ottawa Citizen.

Hear the words "company car" and you think, standard office issue. Six cylinders. Four doors. Paint colour dictated by resale value. Maybe - if you're a manager - a sunroof.

Unless you work for the Dymon Group of companies. At this Ottawa concern, the employee rides are Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrids and full-electric Chevrolet Volts, all brightly wrapped in the corporate colours.

And for the executive suite ... sweet! An exotic Tesla Motors electric roadster and now a high-powered Tesla Model S luxury sedan. At Dymon, operator of a rapidly expanding chain of high-end self-storage centres - a concept it pretty much invented - the alternate-fuel vehicles are a public proclamation of a corporation-wide emphasis on the environment.

Thus the roadster bears the logo of Dymon Power, the division that sells electricity from solar panels atop company buildings to the Ontario grid. (Dymon says it will stick with solar even if the province's feed-in tariff program ends.)

 

[eMileage]

Nice article. Thanks Doug.

 

[Yggdrasill]

"full-electric Chevrolet Volts"

Full-electric? Really?


Other than that - good article.

 

[blakegallagher]

to be fair for many people they are fully electric as silly as it seems. Many people never or rarely use the gas ... so even though they are carrying around a big unused gas engine they are only using the electric portion of their car most of the time.

 

[AlanA]

thanks for sharing!
also got something for ya, hope you don't mind, that it's an german article, it's very though.
Genf 2013: Tesla: Model X kommt
just have a look at the picture, because tesla is going to have a europe-premier in genf, showing its new model x. can't wait to see more pictures in march. how about you?
yours
Alan

 

[KenEE]

to be fair for many people they are fully electric as silly as it seems. Many people never or rarely use the gas ... so even though they are carrying around a big unused gas engine they are only using the electric portion of their car most of the time.

I wonder how the weight of the Volt's engine compares to say the 85kW battery in the S?

Owning both, I can say I appreciate the range extender in the Volt. As an engineer I would love the challenge of creating a range extender + battery that was competitive with a huge battery but eliminated the range issue.

 

[Doug_G]

When did this turn into (yet another) EV terminology thread?

 

[Doug_G]

Okay no one took my hint, so the hybrid terminology went to Pure BEV Dogma