Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm Place: Tesla Motors, 1050 Bing Street, San Carlos, CA 94070 Dinner: After the tour, 7:30-8:30 pm, Thai Time Restaurant, 1240 El Camino Real, San Carlos CA 94070, (650) 596 8400, http://www.thaitime.com RSVP: Hooman Hafezi, hhafezi@proteusbiomed.com, (408) 499 9334, by 5PM Tuesday October 3, 2006.
Please indicate if you will attend both the tour and the dinner or only the tour. Space is limited to 12 people, so please RSVP in advance. All participants must sign an NDA form in order to go on the tour. The form will be sent out to the attendees before the event.
Membership in ECS is not a requirement for attendance.
Tesla Motors is the manufacturer of the Tesla Roadster, a lithium-ion battery powered sports car, built in collaboration with Lotus Motors and due for release in mid-2007. We will tour the Tesla facility in San Carlos and see the latest prototypes. Our host, Doug Bourn, Sr. Electrical Engineer at Tesla, will provide an overview of the automobile's key features and answer questions. For more information, please visit http://www.teslamotors.com/.
Directions to Tesla Motors: From Highway 101, take the exit to Whipple Ave/Redwood City and go west on Whipple Ave. Turn right onto Industrial Way and continue on Industrial Rd, turning left at Bing St - go 0.2 mi, arrive at 1050 Bing St.