{"id":657741,"date":"2010-02-08T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=36470"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:22:44","slug":"tesla-model-s-real-or-imaginary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657741","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model S: Real or Imaginary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/tesla-model-s-real-or-imaginary\/tesla-model-s-sedan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36473\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-model-s-sedan-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" title=\"tesla-model-s-sedan\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bigfoot.  El Chupacabre.  The Loch Ness monster.  Honest politicians.  People swear that they\u2019ve had encounters, and swear on a stack of bibles that these critters exist.  The Tesla Model S, revealed to the public just about one year ago, fits in the same realm; call it \u201cauto-cryptozoology\u201d.  With clean lines reminiscent of a Maserati, it looked to be the out-of-the-park home run alternative to Chevy\u2019s plain vanilla Volt electric sedan.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-36470\"><\/span>Twelve months down the road, Tesla has a concept vehicle, but no finished production prototype or finalized design.  They also lack a development partner (Lotus helped on the Tesla Roadster), a manufacturing facility, a build process and, soon, a source of revenue.  As Lotus will discontinue the current Elise \/ Exige platform in 2011, this leaves Tesla without a manufacturing partner for Roadsters until a new platform can be engineered and adapted.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has already received a government loan for $465 million, and will soon be shopping their IPO.  It\u2019s a crapshoot on whether or not the company will be able to pull off a successful launch of the Model S, but doing so would establish them as America\u2019s premier electric car manufacturer.  Personally, I\u2019m going to wait a little longer before buying Tesla stock.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.insideline.com\/straightline\/2010\/02\/is-the-tesla-model-s-any-closer-to-production.html#more\">Straightline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7wZahB-oZw2_-SUs6R6ZZtB0kSQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7wZahB-oZw2_-SUs6R6ZZtB0kSQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7wZahB-oZw2_-SUs6R6ZZtB0kSQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7wZahB-oZw2_-SUs6R6ZZtB0kSQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigfoot. El Chupacabre. The Loch Ness monster. Honest politicians. People swear that they\u2019ve had encounters, and swear on a stack of bibles that these critters exist. The Tesla Model S, revealed to the public just about one year ago, fits in the same realm; call it \u201cauto-cryptozoology\u201d. With clean lines reminiscent of a Maserati, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759353,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657741\/revisions\/759353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}