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Tesla Motors recently announced that the Tesla Roadster would be available for delivery in Europe beginning April, 2009. For the first year, a special "Signature Edition" of 250 cars will be offered for all of Europe. This special edition car, fully loaded and highly customized, sells for 99,000 Euro (excl. VAT). We plan to establish service facilities in key European cities, starting with London, Paris, Munich, Northern Germany, Milan, Oslo, Copenhagen (this list is being finalized).
So the cars after the Signature 100 series will not have been produced until October 2008 (a time that's conventionally considered the 2009 model year). And the last of the "2008 model year" cars won't be made till April 2009. Why then cling to calling them 2008 cars? I'm unfamiliar with whatever rules allow that.VIN# Planned Production Month
Founders' Series March-June 2008
Signature 100 #1 July 2008
Signature 100 #100 October 2008
VIN #200 November 2008
VIN #300 December 2008
VIN #400 February 2009
VIN #500 March 2009
Well June can't come fast enough in my book. I just want to get back to being a fan of these cars.
Feeling very stupid here, but why June? What does that change?
Malcolm,Well June can't come fast enough in my book. I just want to get back to being a fan of these cars.
Eventually it will be the Roadster sitting in the Smithsonian, not Tesla's guide to customer care.
I have found TM's leadership with electric cars to be the most exciting development to come along in the industry since I-don't-know-what. I really want them to succeed, as they have made electric tech feasible in a way that no other car company has done since the early days of autos. When Martin was there, I really felt the company combined a passion for cars with a passion for electrics. These days, I'm not really sure what to think. We've seen so many delays, so much baloney and malarkey, so much puzzlement ... well, we'll just have to see what happens.
Whatever the case, I wouldn't be surprised if TM grows little beyond what it is now. I think the industry is rapidly catching up, and will pass TM very quickly. Of course, the Roadster is already a success, and will sell as long as it remains unique. (That status could change quickly if Porsche or equivalent introduces something similiar.) But I see Whitestar as stillborn. All the announcements we're hearing from the majors -- Merc, Chrysler, GM, Nissan, etc. are all planning some form of battery-based tech -- may be hype, but it's hype at least as believeable as the hype about Whitestar.
It would be a sad fate for TM if the Roadster did end up only as a museum exhibit, not far from the DeLorean, and around the corner from all the relics of an overpromised future (jetpack, anyone?). But perhaps TM's greatest contribution may already have been made, and gives it a place in the history books: a catalyst for change, a vision of the future.