How many Naugas have to die to outfit this car????!!!!???
Posted on 01/14/2016 2:47:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
A kinder, gentler car has debuted in Palo Alto.
Tesla Motors has made vegan interiors (seats, steering wheels and gear shifts) an option on its new, falcon-winged electric Model X SUV thanks to the urging of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a company shareholder.
"By offering a 100 percent leather-free car, Tesla is pushing its eco-friendly business even further into the future," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. "PETA can now point to Tesla as a source for top-quality vehicles whose cruelty-free seats are as kind to the environment as its engines are."
New reservations are being accepted for Model X with a $5,000 payment, with estimated vehicle delivery at the end of 2016. According to Fortune, the base price is $80,000.
“Lettuce wrap seats?”
Damn, you beat me to it.
I had coco mats in my old VW bus. I wonder if that counts as vegan?
Are the Vegans they plan to use for upholstery free range?
{^)
Vegans are as stupid as the ruminants they imitate.
I've come to think of the Tesla as "the rich man's Prius."
One of my old customers has a Tesla Model S. He says it pins him to the seat when he stomps on it, it’s way faster than his Porsche.
He gases it up by plugging it in to a socket in his garage.
They never rest, they never sleep, they never give up ....
YEP!!
The cotton and textiles the vegans wear all come from irrigated, land-gobbling crops. The vegies, fruit, and grain they eat come from irrigated, land-gobbling crops. They argue that a more efficient use of grain used to fed livestock would be to feed it to people instead. People don't have four stomachs that ruminants have to process that lower-quality grain fed to livestock.
Vegans take a heavy toll on the environment. They are extraordinarily wasteful of energy and nutrition.
I think leather would be kinder to the environment than the plastic/vinyl or whatever likely non-biodegradable substance they used to make the seats.
Electric cars have incredible acceleration. They're fun that way!
How many Naugas have to die to outfit this car????!!!!???
Unfortunately or fortunately, most of us can’t afford one so the point is moot.
I faced one of those fools one day. He was racing around on foot in the roadway trying to catch a pigeon with a broken wing causing traffic to swerve around him or come to a stop. He never caught the pigeon but left alive with a memorial to his foolishness in hand. Idiots. Go figure.
You stole my idea.
Hasn’t been a car invented that doesn’t collect (dead) bugs on the windshield.
I’m not an animal worshiping, vegetarian weirdo. But I’ll praise anything that Elon builds, as long as it’s open source.
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
A nice hemp upholstery?
Hunting with Honda’s Saturday at 6 on the sportsman channel ..... all new episodes starting February 12th...... < /sarcasm>
Let us ignore PETA !!
I have a Leaf. Despite its humility next to the Tesla, it still has crazy fast acceleration.
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