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All Tesla Wants for Christmas is an Electric Supersonic Airplane

May 7, 2009 at 9:32 AM | by | Comments (0)

Picture this: you're flying along at 35,000 feet, somewhere above Greenland on a direct to Europe, when your airplane short circuits and everything goes dark. What happens then? We have no idea, since an electric commercial airplane has not yet been invented, but electric car company Tesla is thinking about changing that.

Elon Musk, the founder of both SpaceX and of the revolutionary Tesla company, which made owning a sports car you plug into your wall acceptable if not stylish, sat down with TechCrunch to muse on the future of sustainable travel options, which for him includes the extremely awesome idea of an "electric super sonic airplane." He even states that if someone could get around to whittling out the details, since he's already got too much on his mind, this electrojet could be charging up soon:

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Get A Free Car In France (With Purchase Of House)

Where: Paris, France
May 6, 2009 at 4:12 PM | by | Comments (2)

Now here's a way to really dig it in that you are a have and not a have-not in today's shaky economy: Show off your brand-new house and your brand-new car! Then hope no one decides to egg either when you head home to your new domain in France.

An eco-friendly home builder has started to offer a free electric Tesla Roadster with purchase of a green home in a luxury development outside Paris. The name of the "Welcome to France" company suggests this offer will be attractive to foreigners who want to get the whole expat package in one go, complete with resentment among the French people who live near you or see you zipping around, and it is. They even threw in a golf course and helipad!

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