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Old 01-17-2007, 06:19 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by onthefence View Post
Wow, Don't like the price tag

Sports cars are great, but how about a 5 or 7 passenger grocery getter for the rest of us? The price will have to come way down before it would make an impact. Us average Joe's don't have $90k to drop on a car.
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Just the Beginning
While the Tesla Roadster‘s sticker price is in a league with other high-performance sports cars with similar specs, we recognize it‘s out of reach for a lot of people. We consciously chose to develop a high-end sports car as our first car in order to develop the “performance DNA” from which we could create other electric vehicles. Our next model will leverage the Tesla Roadster‘s technology, resulting in a less expensive sports sedan that we can sell at higher volume.
Source: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/company.php

And, I see the company has plans to build an engineering facility in Michigan, and Governor Granholm is wooing the company to build an assembly plant, too.