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Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models

Posted by timothy on from the baptists-pay-for-bootleggers'-road-trips dept.

Shivetya writes with a list of prices for upcoming models from Tesla, noting that "they aren't cheap and the prices are listed assuming the $7500 tax credit. A 160-mile range S will set you back $49,900, the 230-mile is at $59,000, and the 300-mile range S will cost $69,000. Battery sizes are 40, 60, and 85kwh respectively. For your money these cars also include a very large seventeen-inch touchscreen. Is this the electric car you've been waiting for or another rich person's toy?"

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  1. Both by bonch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this the electric car you've been waiting for or another rich person's toy?

    Can't it be both? Because right now it's both.

    1. Re:Both by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes and no. Obviously "rich guy" is a relative term but there are plenty of people who plunk down $40K on full-size pickup trucks and SUVs that are firmly seated in the middle of the middle-class. Is it a wise choice given alternatives? Debatable. But the $50K base model is definitely not a "rich guy toy" just a white-collar guy toy.

      I'm a software engineer and not what most people in the Western world would call rich, just "comfortable" in my income. I'm actually giving the car serious consideration for purchase in a few years after the lease expires on the next car I'm getting in a month or two. By then hopefully the bugs will be more or less ironed out and production ramped up so there isn't a year long waiting list like their Roadster--a car for which few people would argue against is a rich-guy toy.

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  2. But as with all technology by goldcd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need the rich guys to buy it first, so the rest of us can pick them up when they get mass market - if there is a mass market (which personally I think there is)
    The first "motorized carriages" were quite definitely impractical toys for the rich. See also the first airplanes and pretty much "the first anythings"

  3. Re:I can't wait by CaptainLard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd much rather my tax dollars went to electric vehicle manufacturers trying to get off the ground and make waves in the system than to companies that have been recording record profits the past few years in a row (looking at you Exxon...).

  4. Re:the electric vehicle by yurtinus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe it's not the automobile, but Los Angeles that is unsustainable...

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    +1 Disagree