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Originally Posted by rob13572468
looks like with the latest wired article they have had to scale their production estimates back to something a bit more realistic...
Two months ago when they last discussed production they were supposed to be ramping up right now to 25 cars/week but now it looks like they are only now going to be at 10/week. Also the article says they have delivered 27 cars so far which means that they havent even been able to hit the 4/week target so far. (some quick arithmatic puts it at more like 2-3/week).
So maybe they will break 100 cars by the end of 2008.
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From reading on turn of the century electric cars recently and skimming a few articles on Tesla it looked as if the original production estimates were 800 cars in 2008. Which would of been neat to hit the same number as Baker electric cars did in 1906 when they became the biggest seller of electric vehicles in the world (and in 1907 had 17 models!) and held the title until being overtaken in sales by Detroit Electric in 1913. (who is now being revived by a Chinese company)
I still hold much more faith in Tesla being a major electric car manufacturer than I do in GM keeping the Volt going IF it ever comes out and isn't just on some crappy lease program or in some other way self sabotaged. Remember the EV1? Remember who sold the battery patents to the Chevron/Texaco? Remember who ruined it for Toyota when they were making the electric RAV4 before the Prius do to Chevron/Texaco suing them for $30M for using the patents they had bought and shelved from GM? Yeah, that GM. F- the Volt. And kudos for Tesla for finally developing a product that gets around the oil companies battery patents. May they continue to carry on and innovate in the same manner.