Milestones compared to other car startups - Page 4

rsquared99 · 04-15-2009, 02:22 PM

I'm not sure what advantage it would be for TMC to brag about small milestones when they are trying to portray themselves as a small company growing large. Better to leave it to us "fan boys" to point out these things.

doug · 04-15-2009, 06:02 PM

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I'm not sure what advantage it would be for TMC to brag about small milestones ...

I basically agree. I think it's better Tesla wait till they meet their own self defined milestones, such as 500th car delivered, and then reinforce it with a "most highway-capable EVs sold" statistic. Probably better as part of a larger press release that includes some other news as well.

Off topic: I should mention that within this forum, we tend to use TMC to refer to us, Tesla Motors Club, and TM to refer to Tesla Motors. Outside the forum, TMC likely means Toyota Motor Corporation (or perhaps an optical table vendor for those who work with lasers). Btw, Tesla Motors the company is officially "Tesla Motors, Inc." which might be abbreviated as TMI, but that (like this post) would be too much information.

graham · 04-19-2009, 09:46 PM

How many of the Ranger EVs were sold? That is a number we haven't been tracking on this list.

With more Teslas on the road than most other electric cars, it seems like many places which put in EV charging back in the day might be convinced to consider adding an HPC

TEG · 04-19-2009, 10:13 PM

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How many of the Ranger EVs were sold?

The number is rather fuzzy... Perhaps a few hundred. Like the Rav4EV, many were fleet leases, and many were crushed and never sold after the lease was up. Some lease returns were eventually sold though.

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Most of the 1,500 Ranger EV's went to commercial fleets, but Ford also leased about 200 to individuals and sold a few. Only 180 or so remain in fleets; about a dozen are still in private hands.

TEG · 04-19-2009, 10:56 PM

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...Ford built around 1500 electric Rangers and sold them from 1998 to 2002 to a relatively few private individuals and a number of fleet customers. Today, less than 100 have avoided the crusher...

Tessier · 05-15-2009, 05:21 AM

Any update on how many roadsters have been delivered to date? I know they are still a long way off from production on the Model S but you would think they would keep up with the press releases to keep them selves in the eyes of the Media. American is well known for our short attention span I think Tesla would be better off jumping at every chance they get to say look at me look at me since they are trying to be the leader of am emerging market.

graham · 05-15-2009, 06:11 AM

Last week they mentioned in an interview that they had delivered more than 400 Roadsters. I imagine they will make some sort of announcement when they hit 500. Probably within the next 4 weeks or so at this pace if they run into no snags.

WarpedOne · 05-15-2009, 06:14 AM

About 400.
Number 500 is supposed to be acompanied with a small or big delivery party as it should be.

Tdave · 05-15-2009, 06:21 AM

That's also the end of the 2008 model year. 2010 cars have already begun production in Hethel.

vfx · 05-15-2009, 09:04 AM

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Last week they mentioned in an interview that they had delivered more than 400 Roadsters. I imagine they will make some sort of announcement when they hit 500. Probably within the next 4 weeks or so at this pace if they run into no snags.

Remember that there were 27 Founders cars so VIN#473 is the celebration number.