Roadster sales - Tesla business model profitable?

[doug]

Tesla Q12010 sales flat, but down over 50% in US - Darryl Siry’s posterous

If you combine US and international sales, but exclude the powertrain sales, I estimate unit sales of roughly 131 cars worldwide for 1Q2010, for an annualized rate of 524 cars...

 

[dpeilow]

"estimate", "roughly"... 131 (!)

Seems a bit precise.

 

[GSP]

It looks like Daryl is making some reasonable assumptions, like $140,000 per US sale. With $8.8M gross income reported by Tesla that works out to 62.8 cars sold. Daryl rounds up to 63, then does the same exercise for International sales. This gives him a precise looking 131 cars. However, he acknowledges it is an estimate because it depends on assumptions as well as reported facts.

GSP