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Pontiac Vibe, 2002-'09.
463,400 made
Toyota Voltz, 2002-'04.
Right-hand-drive export to Japan.
10,059 made
Total production through 2009: 7.8 million vehicles
$50 Million for the worlds largest car maker is chump change.
I saw some pics here, on this news, is it this model that they're gonna build together?
... joint Toyota-Tesla car that would be a Toyota vehicle powered by a Tesla drive-train...
...I tend to go with a Corolla/Matrix as all tooling is in place now.
From the above referenced news article.
"The new alliance would produce a joint Toyota-Tesla car that would be a Toyota vehicle powered by a Tesla drive-train, hitting the market before the Model S."
A match made in heaven!
A Corolla/Matrix with a Tesla drive-train.
And most of the tooling is in place.
A better LEAF with more power and range.
The ink is still drying on the deal, said Ricardo Reyes, a Tesla spokesman, and he said he wanted to clear up a few things about the company’s purchase of the vast Nummi factory in California, formerly a collaboration between General Motors and Toyota. Toyota and Tesla will collaborate on an electric car, he said, but it’s not clear when that will be happen, and it won’t necessarily be built at what is now being called the Tesla factory (or even in California).
The Model S, which will be built at the Tesla factory, is likely to take up only a quarter of the available space, Mr. Reyes said. “Nummi had the capacity for 500,000 cars a year,” he said. “We see the Tesla factory as an investment in the future, where we can produce our smaller third-generation car, hopefully in much higher volumes than the Model S.”
“We see the Tesla factory as an investment in the future, where we can produce our smaller third-generation car, hopefully in much higher volumes than the Model S.”
...Aaron Bragman, an industry analyst with IHS Global Insight, goes one step further and says the S probably will ride on a Toyota platform, meaning it will share engineering and major components with a current model like the Lexus IS. Omotoso isn’t so sure, noting that Tesla already has done a lot of engineering for the S, and using a Toyota platform might require going back to the drawing board...
Yep. The MINIE and the recent VW concept electric Golf are prime examples. Sometimes you luck out, like with the iMIEV and Smart, where the design of the two cars (on the iMIEV the rear engine design, on the Smart the sandwich design) made it so they could add the batteries under the floor.One problem with using an existing ICE model would be that batteries will take up trunk or some other space. I guess they will make mods to put the batteries in the bottom.
Ofcource, the other problem is - people would want distinctive styling atleast in the next couple of years ...
I kind of agree with Omotoso more. From the reports, this deal with Toyota was thrown together in weeks and Tesla (from the hints we have been given) has been working on the Model S extensively for months.the S probably will ride on a Toyota platform