Comments on: Tesla admits huge losses on Tesla Roadster, increases prices on options

By: tomsax

tomsax — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:44:05 +0000

"Some 400 Tesla Roadster customers are really mad."

That's completely made up. Some of the 400 affected customers are mad, some are not. I doubt even Tesla knows what the mix is as many customers are still absorbing the news and weighing their support for the company's goals and the surprise price increase to their locked-in orders.

Report the facts, but don't presume to speak for 400 people you know nothing about.

By: tomsax

tomsax — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:44:05 +0000

By: zermatt

zermatt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:16:00 +0000

The reason that GM couldn't sell the Impact (remember that electric car?) was that the cost was significantly higher than what people would pay. GM, in effect, was subsidizing the cost of the car to please the California Greens at the time. The 3 year lease made those Greens that wanted to own their Impacts really angry.

So now Tesla is saying that the car currently costs between $90 and $100 K to construct. How could they not know what it would cost to construct before committing to pricing?

Either Tesla is being dishonest about their plans to subsidize the cost of the car or they are poor businessmen.

I hope that Frisker has their pricing under control.