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Tesla Model S
Tesla may raise as much as $180 million






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RE: I like the roadster and model S, however...
By MozeeToby on 6/16/2010 10:46:25 AM , Rating: 2
Their business plan was pretty brilliant, it acknowledged all the technical obstacles and popular misconceptions while still finding a way to be profitable and giving them tons of automatic press. Don't know if the stumbled onto it or planned it from the beginning but either way it was just about the only way for a start up electric car manufacturer to succeed.

Like you said, now they just need to get it down to the point where they don't need to market them as a luxury car anymore. I think the next step could be a FWD rally style car for around 30-35k though. That's cheap enough that the gas savings will cover the additional cost, and still gets to take advantage of all the R&D they've done in building performance vehicles.

By zmatt on 6/16/2010 10:50:01 AM , Rating: 2
Like a focus rs kind of thing? Hmmm, 300hp fwd that doesn't burn a hole in your wallet, but still tries to kill you. count me in!

By Connoisseur on 6/16/2010 2:04:43 PM , Rating: 2
is there any particular reason any all electric car would need to be FWD? It's not like they have to worry about transmission costs.

By arthur449 on 6/19/2010 4:07:17 AM , Rating: 2
Cheaper. Lighter.

FWD vehicles don't require as much reinforcement of the unibody frame.

