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Breaking: Franz von Holzhausen to Tesla Motors as design director! {Autoblog Green}
Aug 15th 2008 11:17AM Tesla needs to get their mid-level passenger car program going. The fact is that most people consider Tesla a company that makes playthings for the rich. In my opinion, starting with the extreme upper end of the market means they blew a lot of money on a program that could've been better spent simply developing more pedestrian cars for the masses. Their timing is wrong at this point because the US economy is in the toilet and nobody is going to spend more than 30k for a car if they can help it. If they have a mid-entry level car, they need to get that car out ASAP rather than focus any more efforts on 100k sports cars.
Out-living a small town in Appalachia {Gadling}
Mar 27th 2008 6:33PM KInd of interesting. I too grew up in a very small town called Hieskell in east TN. The town has never been much, and there are only two businesses and a church,which used to be housed in a beautiful 120 year old church that was in such bad condition, it was torn down while the church moved into what was at one time the local elementary school, which itself had suffered a fire in the 70's which destroyed half of the building. The church now resides in what was once one wing of the building and the cafeteria.
What's said about it is that the area is getting swallowed up by encroaching development. The closest city is Knoxville. Due to the housing boom, many people in Florida and other places cashed out and moved to the area. They tend to like enormous, "Macmansion" type houses built in large Mcmansion developments. Every time I visit, it seems like one more of these developments have been built. They are utterly devoid of character. Only 2-3 miles separate Hieskell and the ensuing sprawl.
In fact, the whole area is rapidly changing. It makes me sad to see this happening because I know that someday, nobody is really even going to know that there was once a town there.
