Posts by Jessie Deeter

At Home with Bob Lutz

August 13, 2009 – 10:37 am

We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz.  In these turbulent times, we wanted to know how the Vice Chair of GM was getting along.
We found Bob smoking a cigar on his Segway.   Which was definitely my favorite visual of the trip. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as [...]

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Filming Tesla (2 of 2)

December 12, 2008 – 2:28 pm

Our co-producer continues her account of shooting behind the scenes at Tesla.
As we captured key meetings with department heads,  Elon stressed his commitment to ramping Tesla up – and the fact that his role was hands-on. He reminded person after person that no problem or detail was too small. The buck stopped with Elon.
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Filming Tesla (1 of 2)

December 10, 2008 – 4:20 pm

Let me just give it away now….the first day we filmed this fall at Tesla, we got to see not one, not two, not three, but, and I counted—over 40 production Roadsters in the Menlo Park buildings. There is something about the sight of more than four million dollars of incredibly sleek, fast (they do [...]

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