It's been a long time coming, and the road has been rocky [1], but Tesla production car #1 has been delivered [2] to company chairman Elon Musk. Photos at link to Treehugger [3].

There's still a long journey ahead for Telsa to become successful and toward making plug-in electric vehicles practical, but this is a major milestone. Congratulations to Tesla and to its former employees [4] who helped realize this achievement!