To say that it’s been a good week for Tesla would be quite an understatement. First, the Tesla Model S earned Consumer Reports’ highest-ever rating with a score of 99 out of 100. Then, after 10 years in business, the electric car maker announced its first quarterly profit in Q1 of 2013 with a net income of $11.2 million. In the wake of the news, Tesla stock prices surged 24 percent, as shares of the company’s stock reached $69.40 when markets closed in New York on Thursday.
Yesterday, on my way to San Francisco’s airtport…
My hate of cars could not resist its beauty. Was it the design? Or was it the fact that it was not like the other cars on the road, not a dinosaur, not a dying death machine? I asked my driver to catch up with it—I wanted to see the side and front of it. He applied the necessary pressure on the pedal and overpowered the space between us. We both looked at and admired its form and the smoothness of its movement. Indeed, we stared so hard at all of its refined features that it took us more than a moment to realize that a woman with fancy blond hair was driving it. We wondered what she thought of the big-eyed cave men in the dinosaur.
