[grundle]

The fact that Tesla Motors chose to withhold this information from hundreds of people who already paid a deposit on this car is very, very wrong.

[Calpernia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1C44JQU7Pc
Tesla Roadster

[TheBattman]

If I were an investor (or customer) - I would divest (or demand my deposit back).

[grundle]

Ping!

[SoldierMedic]

I’m hoping that Tesla will offer to to pay for any transmission replacements that need to be peformed, and that a permanant fix will be found soon.

I am so excited about this car, this is very disappointing.

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[tje]

Usually this sort of thing can be handled through programming, but I know the torque curve of an electric motor is very different than that of an internal combustion engine. But still...

[damondonion]

Sounds like very stupid business to me; no gasoline powered car would survive more than a couple of months without a clutch of some sort and it sounds like that’s what might be missing.

[NonValueAdded]

Innovators always assume some measure of product and delivery risk. It is unseemly for them to whine about it.

[Grut]

His car is fitted, however, with a transmission that he knows will fail in a few thousand miles.

Ford makes Tesla? ;^)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Given the success rate for these kind of endeavors I didn’t think they’d get this far. I hope they get this transmission problem solved and stay in production.

[Travis McGee]

Boy Genius Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind this car, overruled his design team and demanded a gear box. His engineers wanted a gearless pure electric drive, but he insisted. Hoisted on his own petard of hubris.