Model S Factory Ramp - Speculation

[ckessel]

My understanding is that Tesla has promised investors to sell 5,000 cars not just produce 5,000.

The website says produced, for what that's worth.

"20,000 units will be produced per year. 5,000 units will be produced in 2012."

 

[WhiteKnight]

They promised to deliver 5,000 cars?

Yes and collect the money .

 

[Arnold Panz]

Very interesting tidbit from this story in Sunday's NY Times:

"Tesla says it expect to deliver 5,300 Model S sedans in 2012, and another 20,000 next year."

I would expect that the NY Times would have gotten this information directly from Tesla, and it clearly says "5,300" and "delivered" for 2012. :biggrin:

E.V.’s Are Merging Into California’s Traffic - NYTimes.com

 

[Citizen-T]

Very interesting tidbit from this story in Sunday's NY Times:

"Tesla says it expect to deliver 5,300 Model S sedans in 2012, and another 20,000 next year."

I would expect that the NY Times would have gotten this information directly from Tesla, and it clearly says "5,300" and "delivered" for 2012. :biggrin:

This Summer, Electric Cars Are Merging Into California's Traffic

I'm sure they pulled it from the Tesla shareholder meeting slides. Those slides showed 5300 cars delivered in 2012, but that was the total of Model S and Roadsters. Many people in the investor thread didn't read the fine print either and assumed that 5300 Model Ss were being delivered in 2012, but we quickly realized that 300 of those were Roadsters. Easy mistake to make.