I had sent an email to the writer advising him of the error. Manteca is in California's central valley where two major north-south highways flow (5 & 99). It is south of Stockton, north of Modesto, and east of Tracy. Except for the surrounding Ag areas, the city caters to that trucking and other light industries. Its location is good if you want some lower cost land for a plant, and not too far from the SF bay area or those major highways.
Having said that, ... yea, I would not expect their media outlet to be too up to date on EVs, even really big deal ones like Tesla. If you look at that writer's other news items https://www.google.com/#q=%22jcampbell%40mantecabulletin.com%22 EVs are a top priority with them (right now). So, I usually cut these writers some slack on errors. Not everyone knows or wants to know about plugins in California. Tesla did not renew their license with Lotus, so they can no longer produce the Roadster model. But Tesla does have a Roadster page on their web site (link found on the bottom of the main page): http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster And Tesla still sells the pre-owned Roadster models they have. After the Pre-Owned Roadster is a View Inventory link. {brucedp.150m.com} - On Wed, Apr 23, 2014, at 05:00 AM, EVDL Administrator wrote: > On 23 Apr 2014 at 3:52, brucedp5 wrote: > > > Tesla Motors currently produces two vehicles " the Tesla Roadster sports car > > and the Tesla Model luxury sedan. > > I thought I read years ago that Tesla had retired the Roadster. Hmm, > sure > enough, I don't see it on their website. > > They're taking reservations for the Model X, but that's not a roadster. > And > they have a few >used< Roadsters to offer. But producing Roadsters? Not > that I can tell. > > If the reporter Mr Campbell didn't even get that detail right, can we > trust > his reporting on anything else in this piece? > > I guess Campbell must have been too busy tracking down the latest > corporate > crime or political malfeasance. He just didn't have any time free to > start > his web browser and check Tesla's website. Poor guy. </snark> - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
