Tesla Model S Completes Coast to Coast Winter Trip...

Calling it a "rally" is a bit much but this two car team did just complete a crosscountry trip in a pair of Model S Teslas using only the Tesla Supercharger network for power/recharging.  No ancient decayed dinosaurs were used to fuel this process (well...not directly anyway!!)

They set at least one "record" in the process including " fastest trip across the US in an electric vehicle".  The vehicles reported no mechanical or electrical issues and drove through the snow, sleet and ice without a hiccup...

The final checkin for the team was in NYC and included a photo op with Mr. Elon Musk.

Tesla S team completes cross-country trip in winter...

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This story always intersted me for a number of reasons.  One being that Shawn Fanning had a number of local ties to me with him growing up on the Cape and going to school at Northeastern.  A second being that my key formative years were the 1990's which is when Napster was created and was really the forebearer of the social networks and media distribution methods we see today.  Lastly, I just thought it was damn cool.  A couple teenage kids more or less creating a method by which the entire entrentched music industry would need to re-write its rules.  Napster's impact on the music industry is still being felt today--for good and bad and not only in the music arena but in every content medium you can name.

This should make for an interesting disection of an industry and draw a number of parallels to emerging technology firms you can find out there today.


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