Tesla and Edison were very much at odds with each other

If Edison had prevailed with his power system, we would have DC (direct current) power,
with a power station required every 4-5 miles on the grid! Teslas' AC (alternating current)
that we know today unleashed the electrical power and electronics "miracles" of the 20th
century. Edison hated Tesla viscerally and did everything he could to destroy him. He staged expositions which included electrocuting horses, elephants, and other animals,
to demonstrate the danger of the Westinghouse AC electricity (Tesla licensed his AC to Westinghouse).
Tesla should be much more celebrated today than Edison, but his legacy lives on mostly in obscurity. Such a brilliant man!!

Ummm… because they export terrorists perhaps?

I'm sorry I posted this in the 911 forum. I'll try to get the mods to move it to the off-topic area.

Good luck with the job search.

I see Tesla often here in Houston, mostly the bigger cars rather than the small sporty ones.

As stated, most electricity these days is coal, natural gas, or hydro. There are also some geo thermal, nuclear and solar. Oil burning is going away, and, I think, mostly used for peaker plants which are only run occasionally when the load it's especially high.

I think the Model S is ugly and am not convinced Tesla will remain in business. Not a fan of that name, either (no disrespect to Nikola Tesla), or even their logo. I suspect when a big car company decides to make serious electric cars, Tesla will have a tough time. I think they're a future DeLorean or Bricklin, but what do I know.

My Nephew is working in Sales/Post Market service in San Jose. He's a student at San Jose State. He's a handsome, great kid. His job mostly to help customers understand and use their cars. The test cars are governed to 85 MPH - but he has a lot of fun in the allowed band. He has gotten to show customers the envelope in their non-governed cars which initially frightened him. Now he just scares the clients. The turning speed and acceleration gets the most comments. Perhaps it is telling that he recently rolled his SUV on a freeway offramp (there were stopped vehicles to avoid....).

Good luck getting the job - it is obviously not impossible to get a job there.

Patrick3000, I stand corrected.

As for the cars not looking any different than a modern car, that was their point. Some of the hesitation for people to buy a different type of vehicle, like an electric car is that it looks like an electric car. Companies make the mistake like BMW is doing, in trying to shout out that their electric car is different. Has anyone seen the electric car BMW is about to come out with.......fugly!!!!

Mercedes next year will be introducing their B-Class in the U.S. and it will be electric powered by Tesla. Fortunately the B-Class doesn't look out of place like BMW's car.

I am not one of those "save the world while hugging a tree" types. I just believe that we ought to be as self sufficient as a country as we can. The technology is here in our own country, running on our own resources.

Terrorists..... has anyone given thought as to why they want the "West" dead... we keep medaling in their part of the world. Let them kill themselves off fighting over land and such. I am certainly not defending them, but if we left the Middle East figuratively and literally, than perhaps we would be less of a target.
Us going into Iraq in 1990 was not about terrorist, nor was the second time. So what do you think it was about....invading Kuwait? We don't send troops to Africa to stop one group from invading another.......
We (military) mothballed a lot of "assets" ,in our Middle East allies' countries in the mid to late 80's with the express purpose and I am quoting, "to protect the oil fields in event the Soviet Union or other unfriendly nation tries to take the fields". How do you think we got so many people and equipment in place so fast....half the stuff was there already.

I heard that Tesla is hiring firemen for the field tech support, minor tech issues with putting out a battery fire that most departments are not trained on.

My brother is a smoke eater and says they're gearing up for the training around the areas.

Thank you, can't believe in this day and age people still think we get our oil from the middle east.

I really like the new tesla sedan... see a lot of them around here... honestly didn't know they were made here.

i talked to an elderly gentleman that was spending a 1000.00 dollars a month on fuel. The Tesla pencils out to 800.00 a month. He loved his new car!