The Tesla Model X pre-alpha model shown at the Santana Row store

; Date: Mar 18, 2012

This showing, for people who've already ordered the Model X, was an early prototype. The staff when I visited later were clearly fishing for input on design choices on various details.

David Herron

David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.