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Better World, Design August 30, 2010

Tesla Adds Herman Miller to Its Electric Summer Roadster Tour

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When a premier designer and manufacturer of high performance electric cars offers to stop by for a visit, you know you’re doing something right. This was the case with Tesla Motors.

On its way to Saugatuck, Michigan, for a stop on its Electric Summer Roadster Tour, Tesla visited our Design Yard facility with its new Roadster.

Long-time admirers of our environmental goals and achievements, those at Tesla thought it would a neat experience to show us what they’re up to.

We’re so glad they did.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, several employees gathered in the parking lot to ogle, admire, and even test drive the Fusion Red beauty.


Some got a little carried away.


Even a local reporter joined the fun.

It’s unknown if anyone was able to validate the car’s ability to get from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds, but it looks like a few of them had fun trying.

Comments (4)

Do the ladies come with the car?

See? I told you Thelma and Louise survived the jump! ha ha Love you, Kris!

LOL! I’m afraid not.
Thanks for reading Discover!
Susan Huls
Blog editor

I was thinking the same thing about the photo of the lovely ladies in the scarves. If you’re driving a drop top you’ve got to have the whole Thelma and Louise look!

What’s even cooler than the car pictured above are the wacky stories about the electric car Nikola Tesla supposedly designed back in 1931. The accounts are (naturally) pretty sketchy on details, but Tesla is reported to have tapped into a virtually unlimited power source for the car. Quantum physicists might call this “mysterious radiation from the aether” the zero point energy field or vacuum energy these days. Who knows if Tesla actually accomplished this feat – he did plenty of stuff that people thought was impossible at the time.

Daisy McCarty
http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/

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