Model X Tesla Announces Model X SUV

[Wolfgang]

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[Centurion]

So Musk has a road plan? Doesn't everybody have optimistic dreams? I have faith in him but he should focus on bringing the model S to market and making his business profitable and spend less time on PR. He's an intelligent show man and having meet last month it was pretty evident that he's a convincing character who knows how to plant an idea into people's heads.

 

[Wolfgang]

Tesla may seek funding for SUV

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said the company may raise additional funding for its third electric car, the Model X electric sports utility vehicle, according to reports.

VentureBeat reported that Palo Alto-based Tesla is developing a new vehicle aimed at buyers interested in an SUV or a minivan. Tesla is currently working on its second car, the Model S sedan, which is aimed at first-time electric car buyers. That model is expected to hit the market in the summer of next year.

Tesla may seek funding for SUV | Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

 

[Wolfgang]

an update.

Tesla raises funds for Model X; CEO Musk, Daimler participate

Silicon Valley electric car company Tesla announced Wednesday morning that it’s offering an additional 5.3 million shares of its common stock, and in a separate move, both Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Daimler affiliate Blackstar Investco, plan to buy additional Tesla shares in a private placement at the public offering price. Tesla said in a statement that part of the funds of the sales will go toward developing Tesla’s next-gen electric SUV vehicle, the Model X.

Tesla Could Raise Over $200M in Follow-on Share Sales | Reuters

 

[Wolfgang]

another SUV project


Tesla wins $100 million supply deal with Toyota for RAV4 EV

LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) -- Tesla Motors Inc., the maker of electric Roadster sports cars, said it reached an agreement with Toyota Motor Corp. to supply powertrain equipment worth about $100 million.

Toyota, which previously agreed to pay Tesla $60 million for development work on battery packs and motors for use in an all-electric RAV4 sport-utility vehicle, is paying the additional funds for packs and motors to be used in a version of the vehicle that goes into production next year, Tesla said in a regulatory filing today.

Khobi Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla, declined to provide additional details of the contract. The supply agreement for the all-electric RAV4 runs from 2012 through 2014, Tesla said. Toyota bought a 2.9 percent stake in Tesla last year, as part of a deal in which the startup, led by Elon Musk, acquired a former Toyota-General Motors assembly plant in Fremont, Calif.

Tesla is to begin making its Model S electric sedan by mid-2012 at the factory, where it will also make battery packs and motors for the Toyota model.

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110720/OEM05/307209865#ixzz1SgJlyyft

 

[Wolfgang]

"Quicker than a 911, roomier than a Q7"?

Tesla Model X to be unveiled Feb 9.

Model X Unveil When??

Tesla Model X will be very quick, very roomy and revealed Feb 9

 

[330CIZHP]

Tesla is nothing, but a Ponzi scheme.

They spent 9 years on the Roadster and went through hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called development while they managed to sell only 1600 of them (absurdly, blaming Top Gear UK for the failure of the Roadster).

They have sunk many millions of dollars of investors and government money for failed products while showing new concepts to keep the investors quiet without a single dime of profit back to the investors.

 

[Wolfgang]

they managed to sell only 1600 of them

Looks like they did sell a few more so far?

From wiki: "Since 2008 Tesla has sold 2,024 Roadsters in 30 countries through September 2011."

 

[Kowalski]

You mean only 2,024 in 30 countries? That's nothing, it's ridiculous.

 

[Wolfgang]

^^^ Here's the last of the roadsters before they start producing their second model, Model S,
in the summer, which is sold out for the first year. Model X, to be unveiled Feb 9, and the subject
of this thread, will join Tesla's lineup as the third model.

Autoblog -- This is the last Tesla Roadster



PS. Vid shows model S roominess. Model X should be even roomier?

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[mini_cooper4]

Model S is a dream that I hope will soon become a reality.
I can't wait to see the model X too

 

[Wolfgang]

teaser photo

 

[Choleric]

Tesla unveils its Model X plug-in SUV with 'falcon wings' - Feb. 9, 2012

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

i think 'falcon-wings" are all well and good, but on car that's essentially a family car, it's not terribly practical. Mr. Musk ought to leave that kind of theatrics for coupes and sports cars.

 

[Kowalski]

Ellon Ponzi Madoff Musk fails again.

Tesla libel suit against Top Gear fails again

Tesla and the company's lawyers are nothing if not determined. After a judge smacked down the electric vehicle manufacturer's libel suit against the BBC and Top Gear for comments made about the range of the Tesla Roadster, the automaker rallied with a second, amended lawsuit. It didn't take long for the the same judge to nix the new case, too, saying the amendment was "not capable of being defamatory at all, or, if it is, it is not capable of being a sufficiently serious defamatory meaning to constitute a real and substantial tort."

That sound? It's the smack of the judicial backhand.

The judge went on to say drivers know a manufacturer's claim about range is dependent on driving conditions and habits.

The dustup, as you may recall, began when Top Gear put the Tesla Roadster through its paces on the show's test track. While Jeremy Clarkson lauded the car's acceleration, the segment claimed the vehicle ran out of juice after just 55 miles of abuse. That figure is far south of the 200 mile range Tesla claims for the vehicle. CEO Elon Musk called the show "completely phony" not long after the segment aired and brought out the legal guns. The rest, as they say, is history.

Tesla libel suit against Top Gear fails again

I'm pleased to report that prejudice remains intact. Tesla is a joke.

 

[JadeVetti]

Falcon wings on a family car can be both practical and impractical, in that while it can act as as umbrella when you're trying to strap little ones in, it can also give a small child a blueberry if they happen to be standing in the wrong place.

I don't think Elon Musk is trying to scam anyone. He merely believes in his vision of a gasoline free vehicle and has found others that share that same passion. Whether or not this project fails, one thing is for sure-they believe in this thing, and everyone involved would be horrified to see it fail.

Besides, if he truly were, I would think Tesla would have been buried twenty-four feet and counting by now. Seven years is half a century already for an all electric car manufacturer that is still churning.

 

[Wolfgang]

TESLA Planning Electric Supercar, Truck, Self-driving Models
http://www.worldcarfans.com/1121114...ning-electric-supercar-truck-and-self-driving
http://www.germancarforum.com/community/threads/google-develops-driverless-car.35514/

 

[Wolfgang]

An update.

Guillen also is working feverishly on prepping the Model X crossover for launch.

The Model X, which will borrow much of the Model S underpinnings, is still on schedule for a mid-2014 on-sale date. Tesla CEO Elon Musk cautioned that the launch might be slightly later in the year, noting that he has been "optimistic about projections" in the past.

The Model X development is undergoing the transformation from the functional initial prototype that was unveiled last year to a production-ready prototype. The company will be making final decisions on the interior and exterior dimensions of the car in the first quarter of 2013, Musk said in an interview.

A key part of the Model X will be its dual-motor all-wheel drive system, which Musk predicted would give the crossover "the best road handling of any car in the world."

Following the Model X will be an as-yet unnamed electric sedan about the size of the BMW 3 series. With a target price of $30,000 to $35,000, the smaller sedan will arrive in the next three or four years, Musk said.

"The focus is on cost down," Musk said in an interview. "We've got the range. We've got the capability and ride and handling. Now it's a question of how to optimize it."

Musk expects the fledgling electric car company to turn a quarterly profit in 2013 as sales volumes of the Model S sedan reach an annualized run rate of 20,000 units.

Musk did not say in which quarter he expected the profit to occur, but added that doing so would make Tesla "a real company."

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130116/OEM06/130119843#ixzz2Kw3SxoWB

 

[mini_cooper4]

An update.

Guillen also is working feverishly on prepping the Model X crossover for launch.

The Model X, which will borrow much of the Model S underpinnings, is still on schedule for a mid-2014 on-sale date. Tesla CEO Elon Musk cautioned that the launch might be slightly later in the year, noting that he has been "optimistic about projections" in the past.

The Model X development is undergoing the transformation from the functional initial prototype that was unveiled last year to a production-ready prototype. The company will be making final decisions on the interior and exterior dimensions of the car in the first quarter of 2013, Musk said in an interview.

A key part of the Model X will be its dual-motor all-wheel drive system, which Musk predicted would give the crossover "the best road handling of any car in the world."

Following the Model X will be an as-yet unnamed electric sedan about the size of the BMW 3 series. With a target price of $30,000 to $35,000, the smaller sedan will arrive in the next three or four years, Musk said.

"The focus is on cost down," Musk said in an interview. "We've got the range. We've got the capability and ride and handling. Now it's a question of how to optimize it."

Musk expects the fledgling electric car company to turn a quarterly profit in 2013 as sales volumes of the Model S sedan reach an annualized run rate of 20,000 units.

Musk did not say in which quarter he expected the profit to occur, but added that doing so would make Tesla "a real company."

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130116/OEM06/130119843#ixzz2Kw3SxoWB

I keep hearing the good news from your mouth, Wolf!
It all sounds great! Seems like the Model S is selling pretty good and will earn the company it's first profits.
Of course the best news here is that they are talking about a sedan with the size of a 3-Series and a price starting from $30k to $35k which to me is DAMN cheap... especially if the car looks like a smaller and sportier version of the beautiful Model S, has the same range and is fast as hell too... Will my mind let me buy anything else to use as a daily? Nah!
Really PERFECT news... made me damn happy!

 

[KiwiRob]

Falcon wings on a family car can be both practical and impractical, in that while it can act as as umbrella when you're trying to strap little ones in, it can also give a small child a blueberry if they happen to be standing in the wrong place.

This is supposed to be an SUV, many people who buy SUV's especially those with a family do active sports like skiing, cycling........for many sports having the ability to put your sporting gear (skies, bikes, canoes, roof box....) on the roof is necessary, with those stupid falcon wings you can't put a roof rack on your car, this is going to cost them a lot of sales, it would put me off for sure.