Guess the Name of Tesla’s New Electric Sedan
Silicon Valley’s electric car maker Tesla tells us they have already decided on a new name for their next-generation electric sedan, currently code-named White Star. Alas, they aren’t telling us what it is, though White Star is indeed a project name and will get the boot soon enough.
But we thought it might be fun for our readers to try and suggest ideas for a name for the next-gen sedan. Maybe you’ve got a great (or hilarious) suggestion, or even have an inkling of the real choice (note to insiders, fame and glory await your hints). Remember this is a company that named their first car the Roadster — like the fun of a social network, with the obviousness of the pet rock!
So, any ideas?
KillAVolt?
Seriously, my brother is the VP of Marketing for Tesla and I haven’t the slightest idea. That’s about as insider as it gets!
It’s called the “Five Man Acoustical Jam” and is pre-loaded with every song the 80s Hair Metal band ever performed.
TeslaStar ES maybe. :)
http://www.itrush.com
the Charger is due for a comeback, although the Dart, Pacer or Pinto would be nice too.
“The Buzz” and it comes fully loaded with 43 cup holders and coffee-stain resistant upholstery.
The “IPO Or Bust”
keeping with the social network/obvious theme: the Streetster or the Sedanster
I bet they do something Web 2.0ish, with extra vowels and unneeded capitalization. EleKtra. Voolt. Jooiced. Vooltster.
Tesla Nikola perhaps. But most likely to be something like Elektron. Unless it’s some piece of committee-decided phonetic marketese junk-like name as bestowed recently on big public companies - instantly forgettable. Which would be a shame.
If it were my car company, I would name it the “Booyah”.
Booyah.
The Edison? …if we’re following patterns. But there are so many cool names in electronics to distort! How bout the Ohmen? Crown Joule playing off the Crown Vic. The name has got to be something that isn’t static, something that moves but not Lightning, Lightning is to easy. Pulse, Ion, Elmo, Electron, Amp, Amperage. Telsa Bituminous?
Okay, I’m done. :-)
PhaseBug
Steve Montain - there is an electric car company in the UKcalled Lightning already. See web site…
The Sunspot
Nerlina Pantytingle
how bout, “The Laser”! Cool huh?
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Wardenclyffe, of course.
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The Prestige.
Christopher Priest might want royalties, though.
One of these two for final consideration:
Dreamster, or
Brokester
Galaxy
Transformer
In honor of the brilliant Mr. Tesla.
I offer the Tesla “Resonance”.
Most auto companies establish a theme to their model names. Toyata start their names with a C or a K, german brands like numbers and letters such as C class or 3 series so Tesla needs to keep in mind it’s naming theme.
My suggestion is to use States or places of the USA as Tesla is a US company and there are lots of US names to choose from. The roadster can be the California Roadster, remember the early 60’s ferrari’s, and the White Star could be the Tesla New Canaan.
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Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.
its a caberet, so ‘Voltaire’