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Can an SUV be green? Tesla sure thinks so

By | February 13, 2012, 7:58am PST

Summary: Tesla hopes to appeal to eco-friendly families for whom small electric vehicles aren’t really a practical option.

This post is for all my friends and followers and readers who legitimately need a large vehicle because, well, they have large families. Tesla has been showing off a preview model of its Tesla Model X (you can see scads of photos in this ZDNet photo gallery).

I’ll let the specs in the photo gallery do the talking, but approximately 60 percent of the innards of the Model X mirror those of the other Tesla vehicles, notably the Model S. The lithium-ion battery pack is the foundation of the SUV. Because of its weight, the Model X will probably get between 10 percent and 12 percent less range per charge than the Model S. It will come in an all-wheel-drive option, for those of you who live in snow- and ice-prone areas of the world where this really matters.

Production on the vehicle is supposed to start in late 2013, with “significant” deliveries starting in 2014, according to the Tesla Motors Web site.

You can watch the complete unveiling by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in the video below:

Model X Reveal from Tesla Motors on Vimeo.

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues.

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Writing publicly about what the high-tech industry is actually doing to help itself and the world get greener or more sustainable is one way I figure I can contribute more meaningfully to said effort. I am also a big OMG-kind-of-fan of smart leadership, which is why the goodly folks who publish this blog let me go on about this topic and why I am always on the hunt for forward-looking business management ideas.

My daily writing is focused on looking for topics for my blogs, GreenTech Pastures and Business Brains. I also write often about emerging technology trends such as mobile computing, unified communications and cloud computing. Occasionally, I will pop up at an industry conference in some sort of speaking capacity. In cases where a speaking engagement involves a sponsor that may be covered in this blog, that fact will be disclosed in coverage as appropriate.

My corporate writing work usually consists of crafting research white papers about some aspect of technology. In the event that my commentary (in written, audio or video form) mentions a company for which I have provided consulting advice, I will disclose that fact. However, there is no connection between these projects and the topics that I am covering in my blog.

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Heather Clancy

Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.

Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.

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RE: Can an SUV be green? Tesla sure thinks so
IT_Fella 13th Feb
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No...it is an SUV (Simply Useless Vehicle). wink
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itpro_z 13th Feb
But that is NOT an SUV. What does it have, 3" of ground clearance? Out here in the West where I live we actually get measurable snow and have thousands of miles of unimproved roads. That little toy would not even make it out of my driveway in the winter. Just call it what it is: A stationwagon.
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No...it is an SUV (Simply Useless Vehicle). wink

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