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Elon Musk (Tesla CEO) talks about Model S and beyond

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There's a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week and while the Tesla Roadster has nothing to do with the web really, the car has captured the imaginations of Silicon Valley in a big way. A blog I read, Techcrunch is "live-blogging" the event here, but here are two very exciting excerpts from the notes:


"Musk says they’ll be making 1,500 Tesla Roadsters a year at full productions. He says it’s faster than a Ferrari - 3.9 seconds 0-60, and more efficient than a Prius - about 130 MPG equivalent.


The next product Tesla will launch is a sedan, the Model S, which will be unveiled in Q1 2009. It will be half the price of the $109k roadster. The third model will be a car that’s less than $30k, and they’ll create “hundreds of thousands” of them per year."

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Hm...that sounds awfully ambitious...I really hope they can.  I want to have faith in Tesla but all the layoffs and stuff are a little worrisome.

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Will they have an EREV version of the Model S? 

 

I heard Martin Eberhard say Tesla was considering it before he got the boot. Then Musk said Tesla would only do pure BEV. However, last I heard EREV option was back on the table. This could have just been the first report reiterated or a real change in direction.

 

It would be nice to hear Elon in a recent quote.

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