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Comment · 17 years ago
Not to mention the problem of search has already been mostly solved by yahoo ,webcrawler, and altavista. It's good enough.
Comment · 17 years ago
What other US cities have you considered? Boston? NYC? Seattle? Austin?

Climate would lock you out of most of those places minus Austin.

Comment · 17 years ago
Used to. They sold it if I remember right. It was like 5 to 10%
Comment · 17 years ago
The sedan is planned to be sold for 59k. That is before the government refund of 8k.
Comment · 17 years ago
True, they sell batteries to Daimler.
Comment · 17 years ago
Musk briefly explains how they will reach profitability here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/

Obviously we don't have the whole picture for the numbers. However, he does state material cost of the car was 140k and as of a month or two ago is 80k. They also raised the price of their vehicle to 109 from 92. Lastly , he mentions good sales of their more expensive Tesla sport which is 128k.

Comment · 17 years ago
They were planning on licensing their battery technology as well.
Comment · 17 years ago
If musk can do with his cars what he did with spacex he will be able to produce items for his vehicles himself and overcome the fixed cost dilemma. I recall him making some of the parts for his vehicles in the spacex plant. Most of (90 some percent) of his rockets are made in house, which is why he can undercut orbital, lockheed, and the russians by a factor of 3. Last I heard theyare building a tesla manufacturing plant in san jose. Let's wish them luck.
Comment · 17 years ago
They have another model coming out 2 or 3 years after the sedan. That will be in the 30k range. If I recall correctly, Musk once said as a rule of thumb once you raise your production by 10 fold then you can halve the cost of your item.
Comment · 17 years ago
I read his book in high school. Masters of Deception. I really liked it.
Comment · 17 years ago
Thank you.

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