Please Read If you have remarks about the car best to put them in the article on the car this article is on the company Model S Base Price Needs Updating No longer speculative The Tesla website lists the Model S base price at 49 900 USD and they re taking 5 000 reservation payments Preceding unsigned comment added by 64 53 220 164 465 Million from Federal Advanced Technology Vehicle Production Program June 23 2009 Tesla received 465 million from the federal government to retool factories for production of electric vehicles There is extensive detail to be covered Problems at Tesla Preceding unsigned comment added by 74 230 23 191 Restructuring I tried to restructure this by putting in some sections Things I wish were a little better The section on the roadster may be getting a little too big since there s already a page on it But I think the specs on the car go towards explaining the company s business model English vs American usage is a bit of a problem here since we have Lotus an English company and Tesla an American company I m staying with American style as per the original version and since this is about an American car I tried to avoid constructions that sound odd on the other continent but I m not sure I succeeded talk Michael Marks If you click on his name in the article you ll find he s long been dead Preceding unsigned comment added by 71 208 110 210 Tesla Motors Marketing This reads to me as a staged bit of company hype until I see footage of a real vehicle and some third party confirmation of the putative statistics This whole thing reads like a marketing ploy with Wikipedia furnishing the advertising medium User 69 7 41 230 Seat of the pants acceleration statistics have been reported on by several independent press reporters see for instance this LA Times article by Dan Neil including video and this Forbes article by Elizabeth Corcoran YouTube has even more video While independent test track information has not yet been published this is to be expected as common practice for automobile companies during development of a new vehicle It is unusual however for Tesla to allow so many reporters to ride in their 3rd gen evaluation prototypes development vehicles The reported efficiency of 133 Wh km while quite good is very much in line with other electric vehicles Similarly reports of the energy 56kWh and power 220kW content of the li ion pack are well within the range of other li ion battery packs How might we improve the article to sound less like a marketing ploy I agree that the article reads like an advertisment the Models section especially and as asuch I will add an advert warning to the section until the advert feel is gone That single comment is 3 5 years old and is no longer relevant The article has gone through multiple revisions by multiple editors since that time These revisions evidently did nothing to solve the adverts you should know you have been editing this page for over 3 5 years Solar mileage offset calculation Tesla plans to offer home roof mounted solar photovoltaic systems through S