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In an amended Securities and Exchange Commission filing posted on Monday, Tesla Motors said that it has extended its agreement with Lotus to help bridge a gap in production of the electric Roadster. Tesla, which filed for an initial public offering worth $100 million in January, has been facing up to an year of shutdown of production of the Roadster after 2011, due to tooling changes at an unnamed supplier.<\/p>\n
Lotus sends Tesla “gliders,” which are partially assembled vehicles without Tesla’s electric powertrain.<\/p>\n
The new agreement will help keep the Tesla Roadster in showroom longer than it originally planned.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Originally, Tesla had a deal with Lotus for 1,700 gliders, set to expire in March 2011. The new deal will give Lotus a total of 2,400 gliders and will expire in December 2011, helping it fulfill orders placed between 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n The next-generation Tesla Roadster is not expected to arrive until sometime in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n – By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n Source: Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n In an amended Securities and Exchange Commission filing posted on Monday, Tesla Motors said that it has extended its agreement with Lotus to help bridge a gap in production of the electric Roadster. Tesla, which filed for an initial public offering worth $100 million in January, has been facing up to an year of shutdown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489785","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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