Comments on: Tesla Snubs Customers for A Couple Million Dollars on Delayed Roadsters

By: Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech

Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:01:37 +0000

[...] a press release, the company attributed this turn of events primarily to sales of its higher margin second-gen electric sports car, the Roadster 2. And wouldn’t that be great — if a few tweaks to the company’s [...]

By: Tesla Roadsters a Tough Sell Mid-Recession? No Way, Says Musk

Tesla Roadsters a Tough Sell Mid-Recession? No Way, Says Musk — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:02:02 +0000

[...] customers dealt with the economic downturn. Other factors also may have come into play, such as the price hike for previously standard options on pre-ordered Roadsters, which the company announced in January of this [...]

By: The Green Rich List: Wealthy Doesn’t Mean Savvy « Earth2Tech

The Green Rich List: Wealthy Doesn’t Mean Savvy « Earth2Tech — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:28:01 +0000

[...] the valuation it wanted. Now it’s betting everything on a DOE loan, and has even stooped to jacking up prices on already delayed Roadsters. [...]

By: realistic_idealist

realistic_idealist — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:54:28 +0000

uh hmm... ha ha... sigh

MUSK STRIKES AGAIN!

Today's lesson: History Repeats Itself. -It's ironic that Nikola Tesla's own misleadings with business and entrepreneurial tact would reflect so kindly upon a company bearing his name half a century later.

Don't Quit Your Day Job -Elon Musk should stick to his physics degree and just keeping shooting things into space, because as everyone knows "what goes up, must come down," and this (ASS)tronomical failure in his part as a businessman displays the realities of why not all of us are fit to lead and how easy it is to destroy the hope of so many (cue Martin's return a-la Steve Jobs post-firing).

And A Personal Opinion -The Roadster is a proof-of-concept. The company proved they could build it. They should not try to immortalize it as the saving grace of the electric car industry forever remembered by its features and trim-options, but instead move on to a Second Generation Roadster as an up-sale, not that silly Sports version that's a spit-ball faster than the original.

...it's time for someone to register TeslaSucks.com

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." -Nikola Tesla

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:06:55 +0000

One of the dumbest moves ever by a start up. Musk just stuck his hand into the pockets of committed Tesla buyers who have already been good enough to LOAN him $50,000 each interest free.

Want to make more profit? Sell more cars/parts!

Who is this Parker Lee idiot trying to start rumours about battery packs giving off EMF? If it has a radio frequency generating device in it (the processors in the BMS) then it will have been EMF tested that’s the law. A cell phone gives off high levels of EMF because it is a 500mW transceiver. A BMS microprocessor is not a transmitter so you're talking ignorant BS

By: Tesla Increases Prices On Already-Ordered Roadsters - Page 2 - LotusTalk - The Lotus Cars Community

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:09:54 +0000

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By: Tesla Increases Prices for Existing 2008 Orders - Page 13 - Tesla Motors Club Forum

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:50:40 +0000

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By: Parker Lee

Parker Lee — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:18:53 +0000

The nail in Tesla's coffin is the fact that the battery pack puts out enough EMF radiation to give you plenty of cancer. Their pack is equal to strapping a bag of cell phones to your head. This was a known problem with the GM EV1 and they fired the engineers that complained about it.

By: Parker Lee

Parker Lee — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:37:08 +0000

Tesla was told by the US Govt. that they have such a bad business that they are not going to get funded. Tesla is just doing this as a last ditch attempt to get the federal loan before they go out of business. There are no "other investors", they have asked everybody from Dubai to Sand Hill Road and everybody has turned them down because they screwed up their decisions so bad already. Musk has the money and Musk screwed the whole thing up. His staff should revolt and demand that he put the rest of his cash in the company.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:19 +0000

@Dave

Good points but you can't change the goal post when you realize that you are on the losing end of the game. I don't see any other car company (or a computer company) raising prices if some component pricing shifts.

I think Tesla's latest move shows -- they are a company long on ideas, but short on execution or even developing a proper plan. The company just has poor management and perhaps near-average business skills. don't believe the hype on this one!