Behind the Design of Tesla's Sexy New Sedan

It looks like my first car a 1965 Rambler Marlin. It was also my rolling bedroom :-) Like the Marlin once all the seats are let down back to the trunk you have a full size bed! Booyah! hee hee hee

Seats seven, Model S......... I guess 'S' stands for seven or on the Seventh day they created the best design and they rested. Like my 65 Marlin that looked like a big fish this car is like a Porshe and a mini van. Nice concept. I only wish I could afford one. But my untimate car would be this car with a ElCamino back end like a car pick up truck for around $30,000. This after all is said and done a Five out of Five Star rated car. ........nice

je demande une somme vint millions

Why are you talking about Obama and religion, nitwit? Hopefully now that big oil is out of the Whiteshouse, the US can lead the way in developing these new technologies. By the way, there is no Santa Claus either.

Yea put the money back into American buisness not weapons to destroy other civilazations. Also .....Need a link to see a 360 view of the cars interior after the leather is in.

Wow!!! Amazing design. I would love to have one.

Move over Roadster, make way for my new dream car! Innovative companies like Tesla Motors deserve government support, not sick car companies wedded to Big Oil that have lacked vision for decades. Too bad there is no Tesla Motors dealer in Hawaii. It would be a perfect marriage all around.

Move over Roadster, make way for my new dream car! Innovative companies like Tesla Motors deserve government support, not sick car companies wedded to Big Oil that have lacked vision for decades. Too bad there is no Tesla Motors dealer in Hawaii. It would be a perfect marriage all around.

Tesla , The Man was a very smart man now very few people even know who he was and what he has done and what or goverment has done to hide his findings look him up and read about this very smart man he gave us so much now lets use it! N Tesla

As long as they keep the UAW out of the company, they stand a chance. Hershey in overtaxed NY

I understand folks fears about this evolution to the electirc vehicle, but as soon as one of these Tesla's is available, I will purchase. I encourage other petrolum-addicts like myself to keep an open mind and not be intimidated by this new techonology. I've driven a colleague's hybrid and was completely impressed. I'm holding on to my gas-guzzler until the plug-in vehicles are available...if it takes too long, I'll settle for the best hybrid available.

would be nice to see one of these in everyone's driveway, or an air car. anyway something other then a suv. as to the terrorists folk, have any of you looked at the history of the usoa and england in the middle east? have any of you heard of timothy mcvay and the oklahoma massacre. or maybe you're right, let's use hate as a vehicle for deciding on right and wrong and we can all drive hummers.

Well why worrie about the ecology by burning fossil fuel in our American Gas Guzzlers. By the time all the new cars come out everyone might be able to purchase a bicycle for under $600. But I will be damed if some geek is going to get $50,000 out of me for a car. I am very pro union but this is what unions and money hungry people are all about. To heck with the population lets charge more money than people can afford and laugh all the way to the bank while the general public goes broke.

I agree Tesla originator was brilliant but so was Delorean. But I highly dought that this comapny will suffer the same fate. So that is two cars I would'nt mine owning this Tesla S and a Delorean with a factory 351 Cleveland engine. One more thing I would like to mention. Back in the 70's there was a cartoonist that drew monstorus caricters shifting gears with his head, harry elbow and his hand shifting a Hurst olds shifter. Come on one cartoon with the guy shifting a Tesla S. I know it can out run a Porsche I saw it on a YouTube video last year. Yea! But can it out run a BattleStar?

I'll belive it when the production of coche de batería is outsourced to Mexico.

Dale H... In another interview the founder said Tesla is already working on a sedan in the price range of a Taurus.

Just curious how these all electric cars will work in North Dakota in the winter when 95% of the electric power goes to the heater. Or in Arizona in the summer time when a lot of energy goes to the air conditioner. Just where does the power come to charge these batteries. Try an oil, gas, coal, or nuke plant. Hershey in overtaxed NY

How much fossil fuel is needed to generate the electrical energy to charge the batteries that power this car?

How long does it take to recharge the thing? I worry about the weight of the battery and all the nasty acid in case of a crash. Sure looks great. This is the level of styling I would like to see from Detroit instead of the ill proportioned barges with poorly executed designs they now have. This new sedan will put the rest of the world including the Asians back on the trailer at least in styling.

@sanjuan2441 Within reasonable limits (for the Roadster down to -20°C (-4F°) ) the car still functions since it's liquid cooled and heated. For even lower temperatures you can plug it in after a storing it in the cold & the thermal system will heat the batteries back up to operating temperature (after that the insulation and discharging will keep the battery warm). It's a similar idea in hot weather. It will use more energy but it's expected, especially when you are using the air con. The car uses a resistive heater (which is very efficient) and also has heated seats. The cooling seems to be a standard aircon. So in general it shouldn't be too much of a drain on range. Even in the natural gas, coal or nuke plant (oil plants are insignificant in the share of energy generation) b/c the car is so efficient the pollution is still going to be lower than a normal car. In the natural gas and nuke case, much lower.