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First deliveries of Model S 
Tesla Fremont Factory 
Fremont, CA
June 2012

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I test drove a model S in 2012 and the experience blew me away. But what got me to put a deposit down was when we were back in the store and they opened the hood of the car and where an engine would normally be was just open space.  No engine. No fuel tank. No exhaust pipes. I marveled at the engineering. I typically don’t like buying first gen tech bc I’d rather wait for kinks to be ironed out, but this was different. Electric cars wouldn’t be the future if people didn’t buy them, even when it felt risky to.