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Old 01-17-2015, 07:25 AM   #849 (permalink)
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2016 IF he/they are able to get another $250+ Million soon enough to even make that 2016 time line ... News flash , they will not get any where near that much $ anywhere near fast enough to make even the 2016 date.

Even if Bill Gates or someone like him wrote them the $250 Million check tomorrow ... it would still take many months after that to finish all the tooling / training / etc .. even before they could start production.

If they give up on the large economies of scale start out year one .. and just start building ~100 cars a year (like Tesla started as) than they might have a chance for a good future to scale up over time... If not .. and it looks like the CEO is dead set against it ... they are walked dead, will never be more than Hype... EEStor anyone?
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