Houston Cars

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.