Car Throttle

You know it's the auto industry we're talking about when, after only a little time a market, a replacement for the Tesla Roadster is already being discussed. Like politics, it's never to early to start speculating, right?  Jonny Lieberman of the WebRidesTV blog gives us fodder to do just that, with his chance to sit down with Tesla's CEO Elon Musk for an interview. Surprisingly, he did not pick the company's all-important upcoming Model S as a topic of conversation. No, he asked about the next-generation Roadster. Some quite interesting information ensued that gives us a glimpse into Musk's thinking for the future. Tesla and Musk has always seemed to hold in high regard the German auto companies and German engineering, and that has proved true in reality with recent investment by

A little over a month after unveiling the Model S sedan, Tesla Motors has announced today that the company has received over 1,000 orders. That is no doubt an impressive figure! Consider this; the company has no factory yet to produce the model and the purchase price is at around $50,000, in luxury territory. 1,000 orders is a number to be excited about. I can see why the car reached so many orders too. The car offers an incredible value proposition and Elon Musk has guaranteed to personally refund deposits should an "Armageddon scenario" happen to the company. This is the guy that founded PayPal and SpaceX; I think people have a lot of confidence that he will be able to deliver on the Model S's promises. Like

Like Autoblog pointed out, GM's Bob Lutz was often the most quotable auto executive out there, proving over and over again his propensity to say - interesting - things and get headlines because of it. Apparently Elon Musk thinks so as well. Free publicity! It all started with an original editorial in the New York Times, back in November of 2008. In the article columnist Randle Stross ripped Tesla. Witness: “It's all-electric technology remains woefully immature and don’t-even-ask expensive....The Roadster is not much more than a functioning concept car that sells for $109,000.” Needless to say, it was scathing. After a dustup with Tesla buyer and Silicon Valley tech guy John Calcanis, apparently NYT did a retraction and the article was rewritten. Why this is still relevant right now, I