Here are three important numbers that you may want to consider when reading this story:
7…that's how long it took California based electric car maker Tesla Motors to make a profit.
The company reported that it had earned $1 million on $20 million in revenue last month after shipping a record 109 Roadsters to customers who had pre-ordered the cars.
“We achieved bottom-line profitability thanks to a tremendous amount of
hard work by the Tesla team to improve quality, while simultaneously
reducing costs on the Roadster,” said CEO Elon Musk in a
statement. “This also shows there is a strong demand for the car…
Moreover, customers know that in buying the Roadster they are helping
fund development of our mass-market electric cars.”
609 Roadsters…that's how many cars the company has delivered since it began building them in March of 2008.
$465 million…that's how much money the Federal government will loan Tesla to help develop a drivetrain and retool a factory to build the the upcoming Model S Couple the company hope to sell in 2011.
