Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars

An anonymous reader writes "Toyota just announced that it will invest $50 million in Tesla Motors and the two companies will partner to manufacture electric vehicles to meet California's growing demand for greener cars. Bay Area residents should be especially excited, as this venture is expected to create thousands of new jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, and is sure to be a boon to California's flagging economy. Tesla fans as well should rejoice as the new partnership will allow the EV startup to bring its highly coveted, iconic design to more affordable electric vehicles like the Model S sedan, which will sell for $49,900 and gets 300 miles on a 3- to 5-hour charge."

Comments

All bugs are now electric...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't blame that ICE now!

I can't wait.

[Cornwallis]

As one of the last eleven people in the country with a job I look forward to buying one!

Re:I can't wait.

[flyingfsck]

You are out of luck, they will only build ten.

Re:I can't wait.

[sdpuppy]

There is an amazing - yet untapped source of energy that could be used. Portable too!

http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Animal615.jpg

http://deguhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Chris_and_Aarron.jpg

Or for somewhat less portable and still untapped energy source:

http://www.healthstylesexercise.com/catalog/images/Landice_L7_Treadmill.jpg

In other news ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Tesla in an effort to save time and improve efficiency has announced it's first recall before the plant has opened.

There will be no stopping this

[brokeninside]

It'll keep going forward even if they try to put the brakes on.

Match made in Heven!

[DarthVain]

Combining Toyota's "Can't Stop!" technology, to solve Tesla's limited range problems is pure genius!

Re:Honda Clarity?

[flyingfsck]

It is easy to store hydrogen. You just have to combine it with carbon so that you get a room temperature liquid, which can be distributed and utilized by existing infrastructure...