Tesla Model S

Tesla Motors, the maker of the electric Roadster sports car and the upcoming electric Model S sedan, is considering seeking additional investment from equity sales to help pay for production of its third electric car – an all-electric SUV known as the Model X.

Details of the Model X electric SUV have been scarce but it is widely known that the model will use the same powertrain setup as the Tesla Model S sedan.

“We do have enough capital to reach cash-flow positive without raising another dollar,” Musk said on a recent earnings call. “There’s a decent chance we will raise a secondary for the Model X activity and some additional potential headroom growth on the Model S production.”

Tesla said that it has a total of 4,600 reservations for the Model S sedan, which required a down payment of $5,000. Prices for the Tesal Model S will start at $49,900 (after a $7,500 federal tax credit) for the entry-level 160-mile range model. The 230-mile range variant will cost an additional $10,000, while the 300 mile range variant will cost an extra $20,000. Final pricing figures will be announced this summer.

Refresher: The Tesla Model S sedan can be recharged from any 120v, 208v or 240v outlet. Depending on which Model S trim-level you chose, the all-electric sedan will provide you with a total range of 160, 230 or 300 miles per charge. 0 to 60 comes in just 5.6 seconds with a top speed that is limited to 130 mph. Pricing is expected to come in at $49,900 after a federal tax credit of $7,500. A $5,000 reservation fee is required but is refundable.

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- By: Omar Rana

Source: Venture Beat


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  • http://twitter.com/blueandgold63 kent beuchert

    Your Model S photos are of the old version. I notice that the stylist von Holzhausen s at the wheel.
    The Model S also charges using 480 Volt 3 phase level 3 equipment.

  • Shara Brown

    The CEO & senior staff lied to the City of San Jose about building their car factory there and those communications are actionable.

    The CEO & senior staff lied to multiple other cities about building their car factory there and those communications are actionable. They always promise a city or country a factory or sales office and then pull out.

    The CEO has been sued by his staff, his wife, his business partners and his suppliers for manipulation and unethical behavior.

    The CEO paid GQ magazine to write a story about him to help him get dates. The CEO paid the marketing group for Iron Man to say that Iron Man was based on him. History has shown that megalomaniacs have destroyed every company they have run.

    The CEO cheated on his wife with escorts while married. The values of the CEO are the values of the Company. Eolon Musk hires most of the escorts in Silicon Valley.

    The car electromagnetic radiation fields from the battery pack cause cancer.

    They bribed officials to get their federal loan and the funds expended by them to get that loan are being traced back to sources. The McKinsey guys at DOE are connected on paper to Tesla in extensive conflicts of interest.

    The CEO put people into Zap, XP, Ecomotors, Aptera and other electric car companies to sabotage and spy on them. He spied on all of his staff with a fake email campaign. Those situations are actionable.

    He was $100,000.00 off, PER CAR, on the cost to build each car. The company has blown tens of millions of dollars on work it had to completely dump in the garbage and start over on.

    The company has numerous consumer complaints on price changes, overheating of the battery and charging system and inability to get 220V without huge premiums for the setup.

    Nobody is buying the cars anymore and there are hordes of competitors with better electric cars.

    These car guys just lie and lie.. Chrysler and GM said “Oh everything will be rosy if you just give us billions in bailout and now we know they fully knew they were going to go bankrupt, they were just hyping it up in order to grab some more cash, Tesla is the same but more. So let me get this right, the Tesla head guy paid GQ magazine to write an article about how arrogant he is and ditched his smart wife and left her with 5 kids for a teenie bopper that he was cheating with. He hires tons of escorts that blog about him afterwards. They announced a battery deal to raise their valuation when they really only signed a generic MOU.

    They have multiple lawsuits against them by other companies and the founder. They may have a car that causes cancer from battery EMF. They have created a pool of past staff that write endless blogs about how bad they are. They raised prices on customers who had already paid because they had no idea how to build a car. They lied to the City of San Jose about their factory plans. They applied for their only source of funds from the federal ATVM loan without even reading the rules that told them in advance they should never try to build a factory and is trying to sell an insanely expensive car in a depression while every investor has deeply reviewed them and turned them down and Musk won’t even put his money in (of which he has hundreds of millions) and all of their technology has now been superseded by Fisker, Bright and others with cars that do more for 2/3rds less money. They only got their ATVM money because the two local guys from the DOE big accounting consultancy knew the Tesla people. Tesla employees are so ready to jump ship that Musk spies on them with fake internal email. The head executive there put shills inside of other competing electric car companies to sabotage their funding and technology efforts and screwed up Aptera, Zap, and others. So:

    Marty, the founder of Tesla, has said that Musk is a “liar”, “cheat”, “manipulator” and has “no idea what he is doing”

    Musk abandoned his wife and kids for a teeny bopper actress and cheated on his marriage vows

    Musk blew tens of millions of dollars on wasted engineering and office fluff that has never been, and never will be, used in the car and that has been proved to be wrong by the new engineering staff.

    Tesla has sent a pitch letter to almost every VC on Earth and not a single one of them will invest in Tesla because their investigations in due diligence showed the company to be so poorly managed and to have one of the worst debt and financial structures in industry.

    Musk had his PR liaison pay GQ magazine to write an article about him about what a stud muffin he was so he could get more dates.

    The company has increasing numbers of lawsuits against them and most of those are for ethics issues.

    The company needs to sell 1000 cars per day to even come within a hair of meeting their investor, financial and operational costs. They are barely within 5% of that figure.

    Now that so many people have quit or left GM , they have revealed that the EV1 (Who killed the electric car) was recalled and crushed because the battery pack was shown to cause cancer. When Musk was told the Tesla battery pack could also cause cancer, he told the engineers to “not dwell on non-issues”.

    Tesla conned the city of San Jose and other politicians to write letters for their DOE loan knowing full well they were never going to put a factory in San Jose because it was too expensive to ever do that.

    Tesla applied for the DOE loaned even though they do not have the viability or debt ratio to qualify. Tesla has worse financials than Chrysler.

    Fisker, Shelby, Bright and dozens of other companies now offer more EV, faster EV, more features in an EV for less money, so there is no reason to buy a Tesla now.

    No customer is going to install a 220V or 440 V extra plug on their house and pay for that and the extra energy in any volume.

    Musk spied on his staff unethically and created a work environment where nobody cares about the company or the car so the quality is in the hole.

    Darryl Sir, Marty the founder, and hosts of famous people have left and blogged or tattled at tech parties on the extreme ills of Musk.

    Musk spends almost 400K per month on PR services to exploit his name instead of his company brand.

    Tesla changed the prices after customers bought cars because they still are too screwed up to figure out how much their only product costs. If they can’t figure out the cost, then they can’t figure out the engineering so expect a wheel to fly off at 70MPH. Look at how many Tesla’s have already been wrecked. Many times more than Fiskers.

    Tesla has wasted so much money that they can never make money so that now Musk funds the company from his PayPal money but it is running out.

    Musk’s ex wife does not want to make direct trouble in order to not screw up the alimony but she writes on blogs as “Nancy” or “Ellie” to reveal the true inside stuff she knows about Musk and it isn’t good.

    If you buy a Tesla you must REQUIRE an audited copy of their financials, signed, if you want to protect your money.

     

  • Saunder Port

    Stop The Oil Companies from killing off alternative energy funding!!!!!They bribed the elected officials to this week KEEP billions of dollars of our tax money pouring into the oil companies as free subsidies; even with record profits and gas pump prices!Crucial Deadline Approaching: NOW is the time to make your voices heard loud and clear. Tell your Representatives to stand up for clean energy!

    Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, has set a deadline of MAY 13 for all Members of the House to submit their Appropriations.The Energy and Water Subcommittee appropriates funds to the Department of Energy, so this is YOUR CHANCE to influence DOE’s budget.

    Reps. Doyle (D-PA) and Larson (D-CT), are circulating a letter to Rep. Frelinghuysen in support of robust funding for the Department of Energy’s fuel cell and hydrogen energy programs – in both the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and in the Office of Fossil Energy – for Fiscal Year 2012. These programs are not earmarks. They are public/private partnerships in which industry has invested more than three dollars for every dollar of Federal funds.

    ASK YOUR CONGRESSMEMBER TO SIGN THE DOYLE-LARSON APPROPRIATIONS LETTER TO REP. FRELINGHUYSEN.

    The Appropriations Committee needs to hear from all of our Representatives – early and often. Together we can prevail, and ensure that clean energy is a core part in the nation’s energy portfolio.

    Send this to everyone you can. Post it on your facebook page. Copy this article a post it on your favorite blogs.Don’t let OPEC and the oil companies own OUR DOE anymore!

  • Arnold Kunian

    I drove the roadster over 65mph down a one lane street in Boston proper. It was a thrill to know I could have done 100mph safely for the cost of a cheeseburger. So when you throw stones at wonders of the 21st Century, I can only laugh and say that people will stop at nothing to deride progress. Your criticism of Mr. Musk is irrelevant to the issues at hand. These issues are the changing of the entrenched power of the old petroleum world of the 20th Century.
    Arnold Kunian 5/10/11.