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To: Gene Eric

“Keep with the auto, Tesla. You gotta a good thing going there in my opinion.”

Tesla’s business model is built on selling “green credits” to other companies. The cars cost a lot more than what they are selling for. Tesla makes its profit on the credits. So if the US government ends the green credit game the car part of Tesla will cease production.


47 posted on 05/02/2015 11:11:41 AM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham
According to Green Car Reports, Tesla took in $35k per unit in green credits on the Model S, which starts at $70k. Then there's that $7.5k tax credit to Tesla buyers. That's a total of $42.5k in income redistribution from the rest of us.
49 posted on 05/02/2015 1:38:19 PM PDT by cynwoody
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