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Article: Tesla Motors Delivers 500th Roadster.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- June 27, 2009
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A New Jersey philanthropist was the 500th person to take ownership of a Tesla Roadster, an important milestone for the world's leading electric vehicle manufacturer. Martin Tuchman, former chairman and CEO of Interpool, is chairman of The Tuchman Foundation and a board member of The Parkinson's Alliance and Parkinson's Disease Foundation of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He plans to charge his Roadster partly with solar energy thanks to photovoltaic panels he helped install throughout his hometown of Kingston, NJ (see also Tesla Motors Inc.).
"My Roadster drives like a dream -- it's amazing," said Tuchman, a former automotive engineer and owner of a ...