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Originally Posted by rob13572468
After that they are planning to ramp from 4/week to 25/week (100/month) in a span of 2 months. The only problem is that even the big automakers arent able to do this. supply chain and personell issues usually allow production to increase by 100% per month. but maybe tesla can move faster because they are smaller
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Remember also that Lotus is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for them. Tesla just have to get the components together (all of the components, not 90% of them) for the gliders in England, and then get the power train together in California.
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Originally Posted by rob13572468
so by the end of 2008 they will have delivered 270 cars and by april 1st 2009 they will have deilvered 570 cars. Of course they havent even made a dollar yet because they have already pre-sold 600 cars.
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They haven't been
paid for all those cars yet. They were pre-paid in full for the first 125 cars (25 founders series, plus 100 signature series). After that the deposit price was much lower.
Also, according to Tesla, they are holding the deposit money in an account which is not to be spent until the cars are delivered. Now, there's no way to prove this. . . It's not in escrow or anything. But I'm just saying, that's what they've told us.
When it comes to money, the more important thing to remember is this: Everything they've spent on the Roadster, and everything they stand to make from it in the near future, is peanuts compared with the dollar amounts involved in the Model S. It's going to be the car that makes or breaks Tesla.
The Roadster is not really a money-making car. It's a PR exercise, and it's an exercise in learning how to make a car, and it's a halo car for the models that will follow. It's not what their business is oriented around, in terms of revenue.