Tesla Help
 

Total shot in the dark...here goes:

I'd love to get my foot in the door at Telsa. I've already done the online app for a few positions. If anyone knows someone there or has some advice please post or PM me.

Thanks so much!

~Kurt

beam me up scotty.

wonder if Porsche will do a pure electric...

My Son is a huge Tesla fan also (16), he wants to do a vacation in California so he can visit the factory. He has Tesla Jackets shirts hats and posters everywhere. Reminds me of myself with Porsche at his age .

Sign of the times i guess

Certainly wasn't expecting to see anything about Tesla on here, but I am certainly not complaining. This past Sat. I had the great opportunity to drive one of the 85 Kwh models. The word is unbelievable. I took turns that had a speed limit of 45, doing 72 mph. This car has over 400 ft lbs of torque at 0 rpms all the way to 16,000 rpms. There is no transmission, so there is absolutely no pause in the acceleration. The sensation is akin to that push in the seat feeling you get in an airplane just as it starts it's rollout down the runway. Motor Trend drag raced a BMW M5 against a Model S to 100 mph, and the M5 lost. The car weights 4800 lbs.

Not to start a political debate, but the one and only reason we as a country give two sh!*s about the middle east, is oil. We have thousands of military that either didn't come back, or came back missing limbs, over oil. The Tesla is 100% electric and all of our electricity derived from our own resources. Ok, I am off my soap box.

I just wish Tesla had a store here in CT, because I would be interested in applying for a position as well.

Good luck to you Edgemar

S2gart,

Where does the electricity come from to power these things again? We have more oil and natural resources than we could ever use in North America.

As far as the Tesla goes. Not fond of the name of the company. He was a great man who gets almost no credit for his role in the shaping of the modern world. However, it's nice to see an alternative being thought up. There is always more than one way to skin a cat.

OP good luck with your job application process. I hope it goes well for you.

Uh, there are a couple Pelicans who work for Tesla... (I'm not one of them.) For what positions are you applying?

dude, what do you have to offer Tesla?

Most likely sales or marketing. Most of my experience (12 years) is in the technical side of post production, so I'm just looking for a way to get my foot in the door with a company and area i'm very passionate about.

I've applied as a service advisor and a product specialist at a store.

Hopefully one of the Tesla Pelican's will chime in :)

A friend of my son got in by answering a Craigslist add.

My buddy in LA drove a new one and he said it was one of the fastest cars he has ever driven. He was amazed! Pure power!

Good to know...i will check that site.

There are a TON of them on the Westside of LA.

It's really neat to see a clean sheet design car doing well!

Joe Bob sent me some of those marathon horsie skeleton decals. I tried to convince my pal that owns a Tesla S to stick them on the front fenders. No dice.

Also recommended he should get "Edison" vanity plates. No dice.

That sucker hauls.

Would be an interesting company to work for.

merlinfe, our electricity is derived from primarily coal, nuclear, hydro, and natural gas. All of which is from here. I agree we have a lot of our own oil, yet when someone sneezes in the middle east the cost of oil and gas immediately goes up.
I retired from the Air Force and have gone to the sand box a number of times, it was all over oil. We still get a majority of our oil from the Middle East, hence our interest. Why else do we care about that part of the world? We originally went into Iraq simply because the Saudis essentially hired us to do it. They were concerned that Hussein would attack them next and get control over what....? Oil.
That is the real reason Hussein went into Kuwait. If we would greatly reduce our dependency on oil in general, we would reduce are interest in the Middle East and we wouldn't be bringing guys and gals back with parts missing, if they come back at all.

Drove one a few months ago. Basically like using a corded phone your whole life and then being handed an iPhone... I want one! Not because of the "save the earth with electricity", but simply because it is such an amazing car!

I see that the Model S looks more or less like Grandma's grocery getter - the Roadster is pretty sharp, save for the dorky top.

Your Grandma must've been a LOT cooler and a LOT richer than mine!

Ha! Nope, neither cool nor rich (still alive though, and driving :o, at 98 years old), but the Model S looks like any other modern sedan-type car on the road today, and in fact, could be confused with the ibuprofen caplets I just took. :p

Thank you for your service to our country, however you are grossly misinformed. Forty percent of our oil consumption is imported and a large part of that is from the Western Hemisphere.

EIA's Energy in Brief: How dependent are we on foreign oil?

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!