From: Peri Hartman >I want a cheaper Tesla, too. But I think Willie is right. If Tesla had >tried to make a cheap model sooner, they would have only sold a trickle. >That's not a good way for a startup to survive. Selling into to the >masses will be a low profit cut throat market. I think that time is >coming for Tesla, but not here yet. Little room for mistakes, high >volume required, and ICE functionality. > >The last raises eye brows, I know. But you aren't going to change the >public attitude.
I feel much the same way. Tesla had enough money that they *could* have produced an inexpensive EV first; and maybe even sell a lot of them. But they wouldn't have made money; and worse, they wouldn't have been able to attract investors. Without investors, I doubt they could have run the company at a loss for long enough to become profitable. And, though I'd like to see it happen faster, Tesla is slowly getting the prices down and producing cheaper EVs. So, I wish them all the luck in the world. They deserve it; and more importantly, it's likely the automakers wouldn't be offering EVs in the US if Tesla hadn't shamed them into it! Lee Hart -- Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James -- Lee A. Hart http://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
