What did you park next to? (Or what makes the Roadster look tiny?)

[drewski]

Hotel parking lot, Half Moon Bay, CA

 

[AEdennis]

Finally got my wife's baby back from @petergrub... (thanks again!)

So, been driving her Roadster around since Friday...

Untitled by Dennis Pascual, on Flickr

Surrounded by SUVs in Redondo Beach at the park today...

 

[GJVR]

But my car needs more KW’s...

 

[Tex EV]

 

[stevejust]

 

[eHorses]

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I’ll take the roadster

 

[TEG]

How lovely... A BlueStarDarkStarEV1Bolt sandwich !

 

[TEG]

Or put another way:

Current Tesla EV & original Tesla EV + original GM EV & current GM EV...

 

[drewski]

Or put another way:

Current Tesla EV & original Tesla EV + original GM EV & current GM EV...

i think that goes with the theme of International Palindrome Day on Sunday!

C-O-O-C . . . or my pattern recognition genes are working too hard . . .

 

[drewski]

cousins, San Carlos, CA

 

[TEG]

cousins, San Carlos, CA

Sort of "birthplace of the Roadster"...
Original Tesla HQ was blocks from there...
Tesla Motors initial headquarters - Wikimapia

 

[drewski]

Sort of "birthplace of the Roadster"...
Original Tesla HQ was blocks from there...
Tesla Motors initial headquarters - Wikimapia

wow, i knew San Carlos, but didn't know it was that close to where I was!

brings me closer when I enter the diagnostic menu "secret" code

 

[slcasner]

Sort of "birthplace of the Roadster"...
Original Tesla HQ was blocks from there...
Tesla Motors initial headquarters - Wikimapia

How "initial" do you want to get? The first office of Tesla Motors was at 845 Oak Grove Ave, Suite 204, in downtown Menlo Park, CA. I visited there in April, 2004. At that point the company consisted of Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright plus a business plan.

 

[TEG]

^^^ Yes... I thought about that... But I was thinking of San Carlos as the place where the Roadster engineering started happening.

 

[TEG]

They also had an office at the "Circle Star (theater)" complex even closer to the mall you were visiting...
Tesla Motors Circle Star (Now Closed) - Tech Startup

 

[drewski]

They also had an office at the "Circle Star (theater)" complex even closer to the mall you were visiting...
Tesla Motors Circle Star (Now Closed) - Tech Startup

you guys are amazing with your esoteric facts of Tesla's infancy!!

and i'll confess that i wasn't really visiting the mall . . . i was buying some car parts in the parking lot . . . i'll post about it, if it ever get's installed

 

[slcasner]

They also had an office at the "Circle Star (theater)" complex even closer to the mall you were visiting...
Tesla Motors Circle Star (Now Closed) - Tech Startup

Yes, but before Bing Street there was a different industrial building in the same general area. I can't find the address in my email archive. I visited there in May, 2005. I remember that Martin was particularly proud of a motor test stand that JB and the team had built from surplus parts they had scrounged up. I also remember seeing an early battery sheet design that was much different from the eventual production version.

 

[slcasner]

My wife found the address in the Ashlee Vance book: it was 1050 Commercial Street, San Carlos, about 10 blocks north of Bing Street, depending upon how you count.

 

[drewski]

My wife found the address in the Ashlee Vance book: it was 1050 Commercial Street, San Carlos, about 10 blocks north of Bing Street, depending upon how you count.

Apparently they had a thing for 1050 street addresses. . .

 

[markwj]

Apparently they had a thing for 1050 street addresses. . .

And also a thing for 1050 in general.