On Wednesday, July 18, I was part of a small Autodesk group that took a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont. Unlike this San Francisco Chronicle reporter, we signed a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that we wouldn’t share any information that we learned while on the tour; however, we were able to take pictures while waiting for the tour.
Model S
Model 3 (see the test drive report in The Wall Street Journal)
Model X
It was fun to see that Tesla is offering models S, 3, X (Ford owns the rights the Model E name and 3 is a backward E). Already having the rights to the name, Model Y, Tesla’s original plan was to offer models S, E, X, Y.
While still honoring the NDA, I can tell you that Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Our Autodesk group was led by Autodesk VP of Corporate Strategy, Jon Pittman. This turned out to be fitting because Jon had recently written about how he works for Autodesk for its sense of purpose (“Career…