Monday, April 6th, 2009...8:33 am
Tesla’s Model S earlier than its official debut
Earlier its official global debut on March 26, Tesla had come up for a little teaser of its forthcoming sedan, Model S, to kindle all car aficionados’s appetite for environment-friendly vehicles.
The design of the Tesla Roadster Model S is under the creative mind of the previous Mazda designer, Franz von Holzhausen. The green car is sophisticatedly conceived with a rounded front appearance, an attached Tesla emblem on the fender plate at the front and an obviously shorter hood.
Model S is very much different from Fisker Karma, another environment-friendly vehicle from Fisker Automotive, because the new Tesla will be engined alone with battery propulsion system and can stand without the engine capable of extending its range. These features help put up shorter hood.
Many are hooked with this four-door, 5-passenger Model S after Tesla’s sensational release of the Tesla Roadster. The Model S has similar specs with the Roadster where the range is almost the same within 240 miles per change.
But there are certain constraints with regards to the production of the Model S, since the car company has trimmed down its workers mostly from Detroit (actually 25% of its whole employees) and had closed its technical center in Michigan. The company, still, stays positive with the situation and is very hopeful that they would be awarded with the $350 million loan from the US government in the coming months.
The Model S, if ever its gets constructed, will be worth $60,000. The target production date is on 2011.
2 Comments
April 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
By making the statement that only 520 cars were booked in a set of weeks, Tesla is, basically, saying they are dead. With the current debt ratio, overhead and competitors they need to be booking 800 customers per day to even have a bare chance of surviving. The CEO of Tesla is detailed elsewhere online as doing over 40 things that are almost clinically insane, every investors has said they will never put money in Tesla again. The US DOE has already said that they have a failed financial model. They are gone. Bright and Fisker will crush them. Any 3Rd rate controller can run the numbers in a pro forma spreadsheet and see that they are unsurvivable and wait until the UAW gets done with them! My brother is in a Nissan UAW group and the bosses are already meeting about how to force Tesla to sign.
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