Tesla is considering building their own amphibian submarine

Posted on 09-06-2014 at 11:53 by sir_smokalot – 13 Comments”

Do you remember the underwater Lotus Esprit from James Bond yet? Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk bought him, and now he is considering a modern version of make, in very limited edition.

The past few days was in the Uk the first right-hand drive copy of the Model S is delivered, a marktdebuut where the big boss should not be neglected. The British press seized the opportunity to take with Musk to talk about the future: the Model X comes out next year, and keeps the gull-wing doors, and in 2017 will there be a smaller model of the format 3 Series, that half of the cost of a Model S.

The above is mainly a repetition of old news, but when prompted, gave Musk to also playing with the idea of a private amphibian, based on the reading of the aforementioned Esprit:

It’s a low priority project but we can create a transformation amphibious vehicle using Model S electrics. It will look like the Esprit too but 10 per cent bigger and we’ll make it in single digit numbers, but it can be done.

The man tries to conquer the earth with electric cars, the space with his SpaceX project, then why not the seas, with a frickin’ submarine? The following project? “I have that in the head, but this shows I still got nothing loose,‘ said Musk from his base inside an inactive volcano. ‘In any case it is certainly NOT a huge robot-onderwaterspin from which I see the world go conquer *cough*. More coffee?‘

Image: a professional impression of our expensive photoshopper how the Tesla-submarine there, according to him, comes to see