http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/07/tesla-reports-revenue-drop-hits.html As I remember building the Roadster was about 400Million. Manufacturers regularly say a new car costs 1Billion to develop. Tesla seems to cut that number in half. Not to mention buying a shuttered company, designing a car an spitting them out in just 3 years.
Hmm, I didn't remember hearing him say this on the conference call, and also can't find it in the transcript. Wonder where she got this from...
Musk said they were in talks of deal that was in an order of a magnitude larger than the Toyota deal. This deal turned out to be the Mercedes deal. The financial terms were never made public.