Everyone has heard of the Tesla Roadster – the all-electric sports car that gets ~200 miles per charge. The Roadster started production this week, in fact – something that many thought would never happen. The sedan, though, should debut in prototype form before the end of the year. Pricing is expected to be in the $50-60k range, so it will come in quite a bit under the Roadster. Annual volume is estimated to be 10-20k units for the first year. That’s a lofty goal for volume from such a small company, though the pricing sounds right. $60k for a sleek, sexy sports car that never uses a drop of gasoline?
And don’t worry, because Whitestar is just a codename. The folks at Tesla can surely think up something better than that before production time comes along. Will we see a Tesla electric sedan by 2009? Quite possible, and it’s exciting. As soon as we see the first pictures, you can be sure we’ll post them here.
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Yah, I heard back last year that they would be coming out with a sedan once they were able to reduce the cost. But yah, it’s good to see them stepping up, I can’t wait till they work on a hatchback version.