TESLA FINANCE

Tesla: The Green Machine

While you are thinking about purchasing a Tesla, you can reflect on some quite astonishing facts. For a start, there’s the fact that Tesla Motors has only been in existence for a dozen or so years, and has already utterly revolutionised the motor industry. Their electric-power
ed vehicles, initially scorned by many of the established manufacturers, have proven highly successful and have seen an unseemly scrabble by many marques to catch up. However, this has kickstarted a very welcome technological revolution – many of the most exciting vehicles of the near future will be direct results of this acceleration of research and development, and in some cases will use Tesla technology themselves.

Another fascinating fact is that the patents on which most car makers’ businesses rely have been open-sourced by the company; they’re free for anybody to use in good faith. Then there’s the Tesla version of dealerships – they don’t have any, instead ‘galleries’ where staff can answer questions on the car, the point prospective purchasers to the company’s website. And of course there’s their foray into the domestic power market with a home battery pack to optimise alternative energy usage, their ‘Supercharger’ charging stations, their innovative buy-back programme, their moves to implement a self-driving mode…

But what else would you expect from a company whose CEO’s other business is building spaceships?

As for the cars, it all started with the pretty Lotus Elise-based Roadster, which introduced the marque to customers; its light weight and svelte aerodynamics aided battery life and range, making 200-mile electrically-powered trips a possibility for the first time.

After that came the more grown-up Model S, a good-looking saloon with very decent performance indeed, and one which has gathered a very large number of awards for its technical innovation and green credentials. This has proved a highly successful car, with more than 100,000 of them now on the world’s roads. Much of its platform technology is also shared with the sports-utility Model X, which has just reached the market.

Next along is due to be the compact Model 3, which introduces the brand to a far wider market thanks to its low price – however, it is not due to arrive with customers until late 2017 at the earliest, and the inevitable delays incurred in pushing technological and production boundaries may mean that it finally arrives even later than that. But after that? Who knows. Trucks, minivans, cabriolets and more sporty variants have all been discussed. But whatever they come up with next, you can rest assured that it will be both startling and successful.

Tesla have come a long way very quickly – and all without using so much as a teaspoonful of fossil fuel. If that appeals to you, do please contact us to discuss how we can help you finance the purchase of one of these futuristic, environmentally-friendly vehicles.

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