{"id":250817,"date":"2010-01-30T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=35532"},"modified":"2010-01-30T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:43:06","slug":"tesla-motors-kills-roadster-announces-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/250817","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Motors Kills Roadster, Announces IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/tesla-motors-kills-roadster-announces-ipo\/tesla-roadster-sport-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-roadster-sport1-500x318.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla Roadster Sport\" title=\"tesla-roadster-sport\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla Roadster Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a move that could interpreted as \u201cballsy\u201d or \u201cutterly insane\u201d, Tesla Motors has simultaneously announced an IPO and the end of Roadster production in 2011.  Roadsters, built  largely by Lotus at their plant in Hethel, England, share body structures with the Lotus Elise \/ Exige.  Both the Elise and Exige are due to be replaced by new models, as yet unannounced by Lotus.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-35532\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/tesla-motors-kills-roadster-announces-ipo\/tesla_model_s_leaked_-500x333\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla_model_s_leaked_-500x3331.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla Model S\" title=\"tesla_model_s_leaked_-500x333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla Model S<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Tesla Motors has begun development of the Model S sedan, they do not yet have a chassis supplier for this model.  An optimistic projection is for production of the Model S to begin in 2012, which leaves a one to two year gap in sales revenue for the start up company.  A new version of the Tesla Roadster is not expected before 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not an economist (nor do I play one on TV), but I\u2019m guessing that announcing a two year absence of product isn\u2019t the best way to raise $100 million in an IPO.  Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, has proven his critics wrong in the past, but he certainly has his work cut out for him this time around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W5KgaHFep7lwy4IdKShkJQTDDno\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W5KgaHFep7lwy4IdKShkJQTDDno\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W5KgaHFep7lwy4IdKShkJQTDDno\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W5KgaHFep7lwy4IdKShkJQTDDno\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Roadster Sport In a move that could interpreted as \u201cballsy\u201d or \u201cutterly insane\u201d, Tesla Motors has simultaneously announced an IPO and the end of Roadster production in 2011. Roadsters, built largely by Lotus at their plant in Hethel, England, share body structures with the Lotus Elise \/ Exige. Both the Elise and Exige are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}