From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers on 28 Jun 2010 01:02 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/business/28tesla.html?src=busln With First Share Offering, Tesla Bets on Electric Cars Future By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 27, 2010 As Tesla Motors begins selling stock to the public on Tuesday, the offerings success depends on how much investors are willing to bet on a car company that has never made a profit and expects to lose money until at least 2012. Tesla will be the first automaker to go public since the Ford Motor Company held its initial public offering in 1956. It expects the stock sale to raise up to $185 million. The start-up company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., believes Americans taste in cars is changing. Most analysts agree that electric cars like Teslas will catch on as gas prices rise and environmental worries mount. But Tesla faces bigger questions. It has lost $290.2 million since it was founded in 2003 and has not had a profitable quarter. It does not expect that to change until it starts selling its next vehicle, a four-door electric sedan called the Model S, in large numbers. That is not scheduled until 2012, or possibly later, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The only car that Tesla now offers is its two-door Roadster priced at more than $100,000. Tesla has sold just 1,000 since 2008. Even if Americans embrace electric cars, by the time the Model S arrives, it will most likely have tough competition. The Nissan Motor Company is already taking orders on its electric car, the Leaf, which gets 100 miles a charge and is priced at about $25,000 after tax credits. The Chevrolet Volt, an electric car with a gasoline range- extender, goes on sale by the end of this year with a $35,000 price tag. (snip)
From: Neo on 29 Jun 2010 03:43 Toyota Motors has an agreement with Tesla to purchase a signficant percentage of Tesla's initial public offering of stock so that may limit the number of stock issues that is available for sale to the public and also help stablize the price of Tesla's stock -- atleast temporarily. On Jun 28, 1:02 am, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers" <threeb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/business/28tesla.html?src=busln > > With First Share Offering, Tesla Bets on Electric Cars Future > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > Published: June 27, 2010 > > As Tesla Motors begins selling stock to the public on Tuesday, the > offerings success depends on how much investors are willing to bet on > a car company that has never made a profit and expects to lose money > until at least 2012.
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