You are perfectly entitled to find that the Tesla Model S has a soft design and not very aggressive. Certainly the initial design is very successful, but inject a little more testosterone in the lines would not have been refused by many. The Russians with the comapny Larte Design have what you need with the "Elizabeta".It
is in the Top Marques show in Monaco that Larte Design presented for
the first time its aesthetic modification program called the Model S
Elizabeta. The shapely style of the sedan is very attractive originally but it has
nothing really vindictive, which may be surprising compared to incredible
performance it offers.
For the Elizabeta, we can find different appendages in carbon fiber or basalt fiber, just to gain a fewpounds, are declinedonthe sedan0emission.TeslaModel SElizabetaleavingdiscover itsshields,air intakes,reworkedgrille andside skirtsorevendiffuser andspoiler.
LarteDesignalso promiseswheelsbut alsomadesome adjustmentsto the cockpit.Finally the companyalso announcedthat the interior was also redesigned and equipped with a unique audio system but photos were not unfortunately shown.
This story is excerpted and adapted from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, due out May 19 from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins.
On May 8, 2013, Tesla Motors shocked just about everyone by posting its first-ever quarterly profit,
reporting higher-than-expected demand for its Model S electric sedan.
That moment marked the beginning of a turnaround for Elon Musk’s
tumultuous automaker. The next year would see the Model S win most of
the automotive industry’s major awards and Tesla’s share price rise
roughly fivefold, to more than $200. The 2013 profit announcement was
fortuitous. Just weeks before, Tesla had been on the verge of
bankruptcy.
Earlier in 2013 the company was struggling to turn preorders of its
vehicles into actual sales. As Musk put his staff on crisis footing to
save Tesla, he also began negotiating a deal to sell the company to
Google through his friend Larry Page, the search giant’s co-founder and
chief executive officer, according to two people with direct knowledge
of the deal.
Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes and Google spokeswoman Rachel
Whetstone declined to comment. “I don’t want to speculate on rumors,”
Page said when I asked him if Google had considered buying Tesla, adding
that a “car company is pretty far from what Google knows.” Although Tesla spent several years designing and building its
flagship Model S, the car was still missing some features when it went
on sale in June 2012. Its safety elements,
software, and interior room were better than those of most luxury cars,
but it didn’t offer the parking sensors and radar-assisted cruise
control of rivals like BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Glitches with the 2012
Model S door handle irked early buyers, as did some aesthetic choices
such as the car’s sun visors, which had unsightly seams.
A big part of the problem was a lack of resources, says former Tesla
engineer Ali Javidan. “It was either hire a team of 50 people right away
to make one of these things happen, or implement things as best and as
fast as you could.” Musk chose the latter, Javidan says. Tesla also
struggled to get top-rate suppliers to take it seriously, says chief
designer Franz von Holzhausen. With the sun visors, he says, “We ended
up having to go to a third-rate supplier and then work on fixing the
situation after the car had already started shipping.” Tesla’s first customers were proto-typical early adopters who wanted a
computer on wheels. By the end of 2012, many were grumbling about the
bugs still to be worked out, and sales slowed to a trickle. “The word of
mouth on the car sucked,” Musk says. By Valentine’s Day 2013, Tesla was
heading toward a death spiral of missed sales targets and falling
shares. The company’s executives had also hidden the severity of the
problem from the intensely demanding Musk. When he found out, he pulled
staff from every department — engineering, design, finance, HR — into a
meeting and ordered them to call people who’d reserved Teslas and close
those sales. “If we don’t deliver these cars, we are f---ed,” Musk told
the employees, according to a person at the meeting. “So I don’t care
what job you were doing. Your new job is delivering cars.”
