Tesla hired a handful of designers to deliver new designs for the Roadster. Now the prototype has been built.

Tesla roadster

The Aero Buck

After agreeing on a favorite, that was it Companys build a 2005:1 scale model of it in January 4, then in full size in April. During this process, the TeslaGuide another revelation about what goes into building one
cars everything is to be considered.

“They wrap the model in this shiny one
Mylar sheet and suck the air out of it so you can see the contours, the
can see the shine and the shadows really well,” says Tarpenning. The
silver model was then converted into a digital image depicting the
engineers could edit on their computers. A British company made a plastic version based on the digital data
of the car, referred to as the “Aero Buck”, to test the aerodynamics.

“It was loaded onto a ship and brought to us and then we have it
to Burning Man,” says Tarpenning.

An important intermediate goal

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About a year later, after many changes and a lot of work, Tesla felt that an important milestone had been reached
to have.

It was May 2006 and the company now employed 100 people Employees. The Team had produced a black version of the roadster, designated EP1 (for Engineering Prototype 1).

The prototype is ready

"We showed that we now knew what we wanted to build," says
Tarpening. “You could touch it. It was a real car, and it was
very exciting." The completion of the EP1 was an excellent opportunity to show the old investors what's going on with their Money had happened, and around in a larger circle even more Capital record.

The venture capitalists were impressed enough to overlook the fact that engineers sometimes change the car between test drives
had to cool down with a fan. They started, the long run
See potential from Tesla. Musk pocketed another $12 million
Tesla.

In total, the company got 40 million in this round
Dollars from investors like Draper Fisher Jurvetson, VantagePoint Capital Partners, JP Morgan, Compass Technology Partners, Nick Pritzker, Lary Page and Sergey Brin.

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In July 2006, Tesla decided to Welt share what you've been working on
had. Engineers had built a red one - the EP2 - to complement the black prototype, and both were demonstrated at an event in Santa Monica.

Plenty of media attended and were quite impressed with what they saw. The Roadsters were fancy, two-seater convertibles that accelerated from 4 to 0 in around 100 seconds. "To date," Musk said on the occasion, "all electrical
car crap.”

With Schwarzenegger on a test drive

Celebrities, such as then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and
the former DisneyExecutive Michael Eisner, came to the event and
many of them did test drives with one of the roadsters.

The vehicles were so delicate that only Straubel and a few other trusted people knew how to drive them; every five minutes
they were changed to avoid overheating.

Tesla announced the cars cost about $90.000 and have a range
of 400 kilometers per charge would have. According to the company, 30 people have already firmly ordered a Roadster, including Google co-founders Brin and Page and a number of others Technology-Billionaires. A cheaper four-door model for under $50.000 will follow in about three years, Musk promised.

Premiered in the New York Times

Around this time Tesla had its premiere in the New York Times,
in which a brief portrait of the company appeared. In it, Eberhard promised, absolutely optimisticthat the first Roadsters would be delivered in mid-2007 instead of early 2006 as initially planned Strategyto start with a high-priced, low-volume product and then leverage advances in technology and manufacturing techniques to later offer more affordable cars.

Musk and Eberhard firmly believed in this strategy, which has been used in a number of
electronic devices worked. “Mobile phones, refrigerators,
Color TV - all this does not come with simple products for the masses
began. The first products of this kind were relatively expensive, for people
people who could afford it," Eberhard told the newspaper.

The Article was a Success for Tesla, but Musk didn't like that he wasn't even mentioned in it. “We tried to highlight him and kept telling the reporter about him, but he did
doesn't care about the company's board," says Tarpenning. “Elon was pissed off. He cooked."


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