[anymouse]

And 0bama wants to pin the hopes of America's manned spaceflight on a guy who may be broke? Makes you wonder what other risky business that 0bama has got us into?

[anymouse]

Space ping.

[anymouse]

Electric car ping.

[montanajoe]

Actually when they develop a viable electric car they have the potential of really kicking ass accelerating

[Frantzie]

“Now, Toyota has agreed to buy $50 million in shares at the time of Tesla’s initial public offering — if it manages to go public before Dec. 31.”

Ahhh... now we see the cost of peace for the Obama Admin to get off Toyota’s back. This is called a bribe or really extortion.

[VeniVidiVici]

Can't build cars, can't run a business and wilt under pressure but yesireeee you can be absolutely sure they can run your healthcare.

[Jet Jaguar]

Of possible interest.

Ping.

[GeronL]

didn’t this company get something like $300 million from the Stimulus Bill??

[tallyhoe]

Just think you can lease one of these cars for a mere $1,658.00 a month for 3 year contract! God I hope they sell a lot.. In this economic climate?

[saganite]

In other news the Falcon 9 rocket performed flawlessly. But I know that’s not material to your post. /s/

[lewislynn]

Why do I think Delorean when I hear Tesla?

I can't believe so called intelligent people are actually discussing Tesla as an viable business proposition.

It sounds like Mrs. Musk, like Tipper Gore, finally got tired of living a lie.

[Leisler]

What he means to say is that in a world of paper money, he can not find enough private suckers to willingly ‘invest’. So, like some Willie Green boondoggle, he flees to gooberment were they hand out money borrowed from the Chinese to be paid upon the backs of children.

[mo]

The business viability of this outfit is clearly a matter of federal connections to the taxpayer teat, as well as to illusory cash-laden idealogues...rather than sound fundamentals.

[Thermalseeker]

Meanwhile, in other news, I read yesterday in the July 2010 issue of Road and Track that Aptera has finalized the production version of their new 3 wheeled, 400 mpg, hybrid.

[Tolsti2]

SpaceX is a good company producing results and products. Tesla appears to be a huge scam. The electric car is barely more realistic now than it was in the 80’s, especially high end ones for millionaires. Now that the economy’s finished for awhile, they should shut down Tesla, sell anything they can from it, and put everything into SpaceX.

[N. Theknow]

Just to help this guy out, I forwarded him some emails I got from Nigeria.