Tesla Roadster test drive
Friday, July 16th, 2010
As regular visitors of this website will know I married my girlfriend on June 25th, 2010. During the preparations we were thinking about our transport needs from to the city hall, the party location and a few photo locations. Doing this by bicycle would have been the true sustainable choice but the distances involved and our clothing made this impractical. So, it would have to be a car. Because this was to be the day of our lives this could of course not be just any car.
After thinking about it for a while I set my sights on a Tesla Roadster, a electric high performance sports car. But how to get ones hands on one? I've made quite a few test drives in electric vehicles in recent times, and that allowed me to build a nice network. But even in this network I could not find a Roadster to hire for a day. Even the sustainable transport department at work couldn't get me a Roadster for a reasonable price.
The solution came, as happens often, by accident. A colleague at work e-mailed me a link to a movie (
) featuring the Roadster, and in that movie the company Remotion was named - which is now called The New Motion (
). I gathered my courage and sent them an e-mail in which I told them who I was, what I did (a.o. this website), that I was getting married and that I was looking for a sustainable (or at least as sustainable as possible) wedding car. The e-mail I received back from Alef Arendsen (who can be seen in the movie) exceeded all my expectations. The company extended all cooperation and allowed me to use the Roadster at no cost (!) as our wedding car, and employees even delivered and retrieved the car. I couldn't believe my luck!











