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Long-awaited electric sports car rolls out
- edw519 19y ago18 month waiting list. Let's see. Get on waiting list. Hack. Angel. Launch. Series A. Acquisition. Perfect timing.
- ph0rque 19y agoIf your story happens to be more like: Hack. Launch. Get turn down by angels/vc dozens of times. Slowly start bringing in revenue, eventually profit. Acquisition. You can still get the next model with ~600 miles on one battery charge :~).
- johnrob 19y agoHow about: Get on waiting list. Wait 18 months. Sell to an impatient wealthy buyer for a hefty premium.
- rglullis 19y agoSince I have no idea how much does energy cost in US, I'll be the one to ask: how much would be the electric bill for someone who drives, say, 100 miles/day? Better: how much would cost each driven mile?
- ph0rque 19y agoFrom the tesla website: less than $0.02/mile. My calculations for my car (99 Camry) come out to be $ 0.12/mile, and with gas prices going up, I wouldn't be surprised if the savings increase to 10x.
- tlb 19y agoEither electricity or gas is a small fraction of the cost of driving. Sporty tires: $800 / 20,000 miles = $0.04 mile Depreciation: $100,000 / 200,000 miles = $0.50 / mile Driver's time: $100/hr / 40miles/hr = $2.50 / mile
- whatusername 19y agoIt is a car that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds.. So I'm not sure that you can charge every km you drive on t against the drivers time.. (Granted - this doesn't apply if you're just driving to work..)
- patrickg-zill 19y agoThey talk about a home charging station that uses 70 amps. Assuming that is 120VAC, and it takes 3.5 hours, that is roughly 7KW per hour times 3.5 =24.5 KWH. At 10 cents per KWH you are talking $2.45 per charge.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI think newly acquired startups shouldn't be told "go buy your Porsche" Now it's "go buy your Teslas"
- shaunxcode 19y agoI wouldn't normally point out spelling mistakes BUT it's Porsche.
- ivankirigin 19y agosomething about a Porsche made you point it out? :) Thanks - corrected. I usually spell check with Google when FF fails me. Buying a car (before the Tesla) was pretty low on my list of post-liquidity-event fantasies anyway. Starting riskier startups in comfort and owning a large working space are high on my list.
- ardit33 19y agoHaha.... All those people that are calculating this car's running cost, forget that given the price tag, the people that will be buying this are the ones that don't give a frick for the running costs. This car is only for those rich people, that have multiple cars in their garage, and want a new toy they can drive around, and feel good (and brag) about being "green". A game chaning car would be one that costs less than 15k, so the average commuter can actually afford one (we probably are few years away from it).
- dangoldin 19y agoWell as history dictates you first need to capture some market and then move on to grab new ones. I'm sure the cost will come down closer to 15k as time goes on and technological progress has been made. Take a look at "The Innovator's Dilemma" for some examples of disruptive technologies.
- tlb 19y agoThe number of batteries is an interesting number: 6831. That's 9 * 11 * 23, an unusual number of large prime factors. One reference suggests that it's 11 groups of 9 series strings of 23 parallel cells. Somebody there likes prime numbers.
- abless 19y agoExcept that 9 is not prime.
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