

Tesla's Model S

The Tesla Roadster











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RE: It's Good to be in DC
By MozeeToby on 6/23/2009 2:27:28 PM , Rating: 2
Well, to get 465M in revenue they would have to sell 4650 Roadsters, that doesn't seem impossible given their back order of 1500 cars. Of course, all that revenue isn't available to pay back a loan, there are costs involved in building each Roadster.

However, the great thing about selling a high end, highly engineered product, the engineering is already done. I would imagine that the costs of production for a Roadster are < $50000, so I'll just double the number and say ~9000 Roadsters or ~20000 of their luxury sedans they hope to have out soon. Over the life of the loan, none of those numbers seem unrealistic to me.

