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    The Tesla Diaries
    The Tesla Diaries
    The Tesla Diaries
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    The Tesla Diaries

    By Pati Nagle

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    I feel like I’m sitting in the future...

    When she first became aware of Tesla Motors and its ground-breaking electric automobiles, fantasy & science fiction writer Pati Nagle thought owning a Tesla was no more than a dream. Reveling in the futuristic wonderfulness of the Tesla Model S, she followed the company’s progress, enjoying her fantasies of having her own Magical Space Car. She took a test drive. She played with Tesla’s Design Studio, designing her own electric dream car.

    And then Tesla brought out a new color: Deep Blue Metallic.

    Her life would never be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvennight Books
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781611387339
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      The Tesla Diaries - Pati Nagle

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      Dreaming

      When I first became aware of the existence of Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) and their goal of making electric cars that everyone could afford, I went out and bought some Tesla stock. I did that because I couldn’t afford to buy a Tesla car, but I was super-excited about the idea and wanted to support it.

      That was in June of 2013, about a month after Consumer Reports rated the Tesla Model S the best car ever tested. That’s probably what put the company on my radar.

      This story is about the car, though—not about the stock.

      That summer my spouse and I began to dream about owning an electric car. The Model S was beyond our reach; the price tag well outside our comfort zone. Who besides the incredibly wealthy could spend $100k on a car? I’d lived in houses that cost a lot less.

      Our dreams were pinned on the promise of a less expensive Tesla down the road. Elon Musk’s plan was to build a ridiculously expensive sports car (the Roadster), use the proceeds from that to create a slightly less expensive luxury sports car (the Model S), and use funds from that to eventually build a car that people who weren’t incredibly wealthy could at least aspire to own (the Model 3). It would take a few years to get there.

      From the time we first learned about Tesla, we were thrilled at the idea of owning an all-electric car. It would be a step toward cleaner energy. Even if the electricity it used was created by burning fossil fuels, the car would have less impact on the environment than a gas-powered car, and would be much safer. (As Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal points out in his wonderfully profane blog post about Tesla cars, the level of a driver’s happiness increases in direct proportion to the distance of explosions from the driver’s crotch.)

      In fact, that best-ever rating for the Model S included the fact that it was the safest car ever tested. That had huge appeal for us.

      The other thing about the Tesla Model S was that it offered over 200 miles of range. Living where we live, in rural New Mexico, that was essential. My spouse’s commute is a 70-mile round-trip. No electric car that we’d heard of had enough range for that, until the advent of the Model S.

      We had friends who owned hybrids. We looked into that less-expensive solution, but for us, it wasn’t worthwhile. Again, range was the issue. A hybrid car is designed to operate efficiently in city traffic. Most of our driving, including my spouse’s commute, involves a lot of highway miles. So we’d just be burning gas to haul around an electric motor most of the time. Not efficient.

      We watched the news about Tesla, while the company and Elon Musk accumulated a bunch of awards. We watched the stock price swing wildly (but we had been in an investment club and learned about long-term investing, so we weren’t freaked out). We watched, we waited, and we dreamed.

      On the Tesla website, there’s a page where you can configure your dream car: the Design Studio.* No obligation, no commitment. You don’t even have to cough up an email address.

      *Model X Design Studio here (Model 3 Design Studio coming soon)

      We spent a lot of time on that page, playing with our dream car, adding and subtracting options and seeing what that did to the bottom line. The price remained ridiculously high, but it was

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