{"id":796,"date":"2008-02-04T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/02\/04\/tesla-delivered\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:12:55","slug":"tesla-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/02\/04\/tesla-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla delivered its first car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/tesladelivery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" alt=\"Tesladelivery\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/tesladelivery.jpg\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><br \/> Tesla delivered its first production car on Friday to the company\u2019s chairman, Elon Musk. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the encountered difficulties, the start up finally succeeded in reaching the production stage which remains a bit complicated. The car was flown from England where the car is built at the Lotus manufacturing plant in Hethel while the batteries were imported from Tesla\u2019s plant located in Thailand. Both parts were assembled at the company\u2019s headquarters before being delivered to Elon Musk. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla chairman called the moment \u201cthe beginning of the beginning\u201d. In the meantime, he confirmed the first deliveries will start in mid-March. The first cars will be delivered with a temporary transmission before getting letter the final version of the single-speed transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The second car will be delivered to Martin Eberhard who left the company at the end of November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla delivered its first production car on Friday to the company\u2019s chairman, Elon Musk. Despite the encountered difficulties, the start up finally succeeded in reaching the production stage which remains a bit complicated. 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