Tesla to sell Roadster in the Great White North
For those of you with $120,000 to spare and a desire to drive the coolest looking emission-free vehicle on the market, Tesla Motors announced today that it has started taking orders from Canadian consumers interested in coughing up the $60,000 deposit. Personally, I hope somebody I know buys one so I can go for a spin. Open invitation to my rich Toronto readers, assuming there are any out there – if you buy a Roadster you must tell me and offer a ride!
Read the story here in the Toronto Star. I love the symbolism of the Roadster and profile it has given to electric cars, and I love the name Telsa Motors. Nikola Tesla, in my mind, is one of the world’s greatest yet underappreciated inventors. An appropriate name for a 21st-century electric car company.
Tags: Elon Musk, Jeff Skoll, Roadster, Tesla Motors
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Tyler — no need to go begging strangers for a ride! Go to New York or California anytime and I can set you up with a test drive so you can tell readers what you think of the Roadster. You wouldn’t be the first Canadian journalist to drive one but I can guarantee you’ll have fun.
Rachel Konrad
Senior Communications Manager
Tesla Motors Inc.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:19 am
That is a great looking car but the price is slightly steep. I think this is what they need though to make the energy revolution “cool.” There are so many electric and energy efficient vehicles out there who aren’t exactly the best looking and don’t have much power. The hybrids make it cool but electric cars are the ones that are really efficient.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
hahah great looking car. hopefully it can tap into the specialty market for high end autos.