On this day in 2008: production starts for Tesla’s first vehicle, the Roadster.

@JonErlichman Still waiting on the sequel seventeen years later

@JonErlichman Risk takers are of importance to this life I salute the risk takers without them we learn nothing …I wrote a paper about them

@JonErlichman I should get a tesla @grok What do you think?

@JonErlichman So clear-sighted, and confident, while so young. Kudos to his mother, for recognizing his intelligence, and believing in him.

@JonErlichman Great interview! Love that red roadster.

@JonErlichman Oh my, look how young you are in this. You have come a long way. Congratulations on all your success.

@JonErlichman Crazy how early that was. Market didn’t even care about EVs back then. If this launched today, does it even get funded?

@JonErlichman I was there, watching hoping. The roadster hasn’t really evolved fully. Kinda stuck in process. Sad - 620 range and mind-numbing speed. It would be a blast!!

@JonErlichman It’s crazy how the Tesla Roadster (first generation) went from a niche experiment to sparking a global EV movement.

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@JonErlichman Elon do a limited run hypercar to show people the superior performance of electric over the legacy ICE at a fraction of the price. You are a disrupter of traditional business models

@JonErlichman I am a Roadster kind of chick...Lol oh yeah

@JonErlichman Are any of these models still in the road today? If not, thats a problem

@JonErlichman This also equates to the labor market, how we can now see small startups and labor companies 🏢 actually breaching the hiring gap and connecting the right set of skill or labor to international hires, unlike big hiring companies.

@JonErlichman He single handily made the world’s 2. Biggest Car country Germany, from making 0 electric to all brands making EV as their main focus

@JonErlichman “From the Tesla Roadster (first generation) to millions of EVs on the road. Crazy how it all started with one bold experiment. ⚡”

@JonErlichman “This is where the revolution started 🔥”

@JonErlichman Wow😮 That’s 18 years of Tesla’s journey of growth from the Roadster cars to space!

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@JonErlichman Battery → software → manufacturing → now autonomy + energy The biggest winners don’t start with scale — they start by proving something everyone else thinks is impossible. Roadster wasn’t the business. It was the signal.

@JonErlichman Spot on. Larger companies are too often risk adverse.

@JonErlichman From 250 hand-built Roadsters rolling out of San Carlos in 2008 to millions of EVs produced globally - 18 years of production history, and another Roadster now reportedly on the horizon.

@JonErlichman So where is their electric car? Genius.

@JonErlichman „Where is their electric car?“ - Elon Musk Based! 😂👏🏻

@JonErlichman Electric cars have been around for 200 years... the reason big companies didn't sell them was because nobody buys them. Which is why they're all once again removing their electric products.

@JonErlichman x.com/i/status/20338… Watch How Elon Musk almost went bankrupt in 2008 and how he survived and did a legendary comeback 🚀🚀

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@JonErlichman He is one of the best in the world right now.

@JonErlichman Wow, can you believe it’s been that long? The Roadster kicked off Tesla’s journey from cars to space!

@JonErlichman Any advice for how I can have a brain brain like elon's !?🙃

@JonErlichman You could have made the 4 tire be the alternator. And we have a better propulsion system anyways we had electric cars in the 1800s and we still had the problem with the batteries

@JonErlichman Ballz of steel

@JonErlichman @grok, what has been the improvements since then? How has Tesla been able to weather the storm?

@JonErlichman Jeez. How many leaps forward has @tesla made so far?

Tesla Roadster production started on this day in 2008 and the entire automotive industry laughed. Seventeen years later the same industry is laying off engineers and scrambling to license technology they called science fiction. Your early confidence tells you everything about your current relevance.

@JonErlichman Yo Elon, I'm pretty sure it will be your mona lisa. You've been busy lately..im patient. 🍺

I appreciate Elon for his relentless drive to push humanity forward. He turned electric cars from niche toys into mainstream desire with Tesla, made reusable rockets routine through SpaceX, and keeps challenging the status quo with Starlink, Neuralink, and xAI. Beyond the headlines, what stands out is his raw, unfiltered commitment—working insane hours, risking everything repeatedly, and refusing to accept "impossible." Love him or not, his vision has accelerated clean energy, space travel, and free speech in ways few others dare. Respect for the grind and the sheer audacity to dream so big. 🚀

@JonErlichman Brilliant spokesman you tell me, handled the interview perfectly well!

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