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Who in his right mind would finance an auto company start-up? Elon
Musk, the billionaire founder of PayPal, the guy with a NASA contract
for the next space more...shuttle, also expects to put a sold-out (to the likes of
George Clooney, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin) fleet of electric sports
cars on the road this summer. Kicking the tires of the $92,000 Tesla,
which goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds, the author learns the Silicon
Valley saga of big dreams, technical snags, and Aha! moments that
could spell the end of the internal-combustion engine. ...
When these first cars do reach the road, they'll be little more than toys
for green-minded California celebrities to drive down Sunset. But, for ...
Elon Musk and his partners, the plan is to ride the technology curve
down to a more affordable, $49,000 four-door sedan, then a $30,000
mass-market model. Musk, 35, wants nothing less than for Tesla
Motors to be the Ford Motor Company of the 21st century—liberating
the world, at last, from the internal-combustion engine that Henry Ford
foisted upon it at just about this time a century ago.
Tesla's success—so far—is testimony to what four years of war in Iraq
and $3-a-gallon gas have done to burnish, once again, the hundred-year-
old dream of a practical, mass-market electric car. The world is truly
desperate for it. This time—at last—what's under the hood may make
that dream come true.
Musk isn't the one who had the Eureka! moment. That was a slight,
gray-bearded, mild-mannered Silicon Valley entrepreneur named Martin
Eberhard. Like anyone else in 2003, the then 43-year-old Eberhard
knew that billion-dollar markets had grown almost overnight for laptop
computers and cell phones. Rivals were spending huge sums on R&D
to pack ever more energy into the lithium-ion batteries that powered
those devices. One day Eberhard had a simple thought: Why not put
lithium-ion cells into cars?
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I must admit I love the sound of a zoomy gas motor, but I'll take that
futuristic-sounding electric whirr over an exhaust note any day! less
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