Electric Sports Car Manufacturers: Tesla Motors, Fisker Automotive, Venturi Automobiles, Coda Automotive, Lightning Car Company (Paperback)

Electric Sports Car Manufacturers: Tesla Motors, Fisker Automotive, Venturi Automobiles, Coda Automotive, Lightning Car Company Book Description

Chapters: Tesla Motors, Fisker Automotive, Venturi Automobiles, Coda Automotive, Lightning Car Company. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: JB Straubel (Co-founder, Chief Technical Officer)Deepak Ahuja (Chief Financial Officer)Franz von Holzhausen (Chief Designer) (Vice President of North American SalesCristiano Carlutti (Vice President of European Sales and OperationsGilbert Passin (Vice President of ManufacturingDiarmuid O'Connell (Vice President of Business Development)Peter Rawlinson (Vice President of Engineering)br / Ricardo Reyes (Vice President of Communications)Martin Eberhard (co-founder)Marc Tarpenning(co-founder) Ian Wright (co-founder)Tesla Motors Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle power train components. It is currently the only automaker building and selling highway-capable EVs in serial production (as opposed to prototype or evaluation fleet production) in North America or Europe. According to recent paperwork filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla produces at least 15 cars per weekmostly of custom-ordered vehicles manufactured to owners' specifications. The Tesla Roadster, the company's first vehicle, is the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production EV with a range greater than 200 miles (320 km) per charge. The base model accelerates 060 mph (97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds and, according to Tesla Motor's environmental analysis, is twice as energy-efficient as the Toyota Prius. The company had produced its 1,000th Roadster as of January 2010. The company has delivered Roadsters in 43 states and 21 countries as of February 2010. Tesla began producing right-hand-drive Roadste...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5533631

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