On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 03:14:16PM -0500, Christian wrote: > John Francis wrote: > > >> Ah yes, the Tesla http://www.teslamotors.com/ > >> > >> Now, if Detroit would just embrace this kind of technology, we could > >> have a fully electric car that costs less than US$100k... Too bad they > >> are in so deep with Big Oil > > > > Well, Detroit might not be interested, but Lotus are - they seem > > to be planning to market the Tesla. > > > > > > I believe Lotus is actually building the thing.
That would make sense - they certainly have the production facilities. I believe the original underpinnings were from a Lotus, so it makes sense for Lotus to be involved (although when I saw the car the makers were stressing the point that the drivetrain could be designed into other chassis - they just picked a Lotus for the development model). I'm not sure how much of the car is being supplied from San Carlos, and how much from Hethel - there's also some manufacturing in Taiwan. Of course it also depends on whose press releases you read :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
