Craig's blog

Two months ago I had the pleasure of visiting Tesla Motors in San Carlos. A friend of mine hooked me up with Marc Tarpenning, a co-founder of the company. Marc was willing to walk me around and show me what they were doing and then had the patience to answer my 100's of questions about what they were doing. For me it was a total blast. At the time, they were still pretty hush, hush about what they were building, but now they've gone public with their first car that is due to be available early next year.

They're building a two-seat roadster (those of you who know me, know that by itself would interest me). It goes 0-60 in about 4 seconds. The exciting part is that is doesn't have an internal combustion engine. It's an all-electric car. Plug it in over night and drive up to 250 miles. With the solar panels on our roof, that means absolutely no emissions from a very high-performance sports car.

I could write more, but it's much more interesting to read about it at their website: www.teslamotors.com.

Building a new car company is a huge challenge. I wish them all the luck in the world. These are the kind of changes we absolutely have to make, and we'll probably die waiting for Detroit to make them.