12/16/2023 0 Comments Tesla note studio“2014 Tesla Model S: Killing 3 Versions, 2 Colors, Some Options” It may seem like common knowledge today, but it’s worth remembering that this was an earth-shattering dichotomy back in 2014, let alone in 2003!ģ. The story is like something you’d find on CleanTechnica. The graph highlights that an electric car could have insane performance as well as tremendous efficiency. ![]() This is a short article centered around one graph from Tesla’s original master plan, obtained from a court case - Martin Eberhard v. “This One Chart Shows Tesla’s Plan To Disrupt The Auto Industry” ![]() Side note: We recently discussed that same Autopilot/Tesla D event in a Tesla Smart Summon & Tesla Inside Out video:Ģ. Okay, I’ll actually link to this one since you may want to read it. Describing the car as a roller coaster is still one of my top two descriptions for the car. You can call that being a showman, but just about any Tesla Model S P85D driver would be happy to tell you the same thing. It’s like having your own personal roller coaster.” “It’s like taking off from a carrier deck. “This car is nuts,” he said during the reveal. The lines just after that quote above, by the way: Did it also shape future Business Insider content? Who knows, but it seems plausible for various reasons. I think you can see from these lines alone, almost at the close of the article, that the writer had been biased toward a certain view of Elon (presumably, by somewhat disgruntled former co-workers) that shaped the article and its messages to some extent. Meanwhile, Musk had become quite the showman. He thinks he read about the launch online with his coffee the following morning. “I don’t pay attention to Elon’s superlatives,” he said.Įberhard can’t say what exactly he was doing that day. Though Eberhard got the invite and still holds stock in the company, he skipped the festivities. “We also met with a curious lack of cooperation from the usually press-friendly Tesla Motors.”) Towards the very end of the piece, you have this: (Tesla Motors, surprisingly to the writers, wouldn’t comment for the story. So, no doubt, there’s a bit of a bias there. It appears that the main sources for the article were indeed founders and other people no longer at Tesla, rather than the early Tesla people still at the company. In fact, the enormously long article only mentions Straubel 4 times! I also found it interesting/odd that the article spent so much time on them before mentioning Elon Musk and JB Straubel, and didn’t include mention of the lunch where Musk and Straubel met and decided to work on an electric car company together rather than an electric airplane company. I had never read so much about their history, even though I’ve watched an hour-long presentation from Tarpenning about Tesla’s origins a few times (great presentation, but keeps getting removed from YouTube). I didn’t read the whole piece, but it spends many, many, many paragraphs writing about Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning before even mentioning Elon Musk. It’s the most detailed deep history of Tesla I’ve seen in article format. And the article is looooooooooong - really long. This seems to have been a rather fair-handed article about Tesla for which “Business Insider conducted several in-depth interviews with most of the key players and pored over little-noticed documents made public in a lawsuit.” In other words, the outlet did some real legwork. The next line clarifies in a way that matches with what Sir Elon has told us himself: “The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. Opening line doesn’t inspire confidence: “Tesla Motors probably shouldn’t exist.” “The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster” Instead, I will attempt to clearly and concisely summarize them for you. One final note before getting to this week’s results: I’m not linking to the articles I dig up because I consider the sites most frequently covering Tesla to be somewhat shit sites that have been pushing a Tesla smear campaign (most likely, fooled into doing so rather than doing so on purpose with evil intent). In addition to looking at overall top-ranked stories, I’m also going to pull up the top Tesla stories on CleanTechnica in these weeks. Here’s the first edition of “ Tesla Google flashbacks.” Curious about previous Tesla coverage compared to coverage today, I’ve returned to “ Tesla flashbacks” with the goal of publishing a weekly report on the top Tesla stories (in Google) years ago versus today. Google is certainly not the only way to evaluate top media trends, but it’s hard to beat. ![]() What was the media writing about Tesla 5 years ago? What was CleanTechnica writing about Tesla 5 years ago? How does all of this compare to Tesla headlines today?
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