Speaking to Mother Jones in 2013, Eberhard said Tesla would have had to raise more capital to get through that period if the loan hadn’t come through. But the more changes Musk demanded, the more the cost increased. They sold a crazy amount of cars in the last month of this quarter, that was like a make-or-break quarter, https://elonplay.online Q1 2013. In the auto industry, you sell all your cars in the last month of a quarter, like that doesn’t happen normally, something happened there. And it just got crazier and crazier from there. MARTIN EBERHARD: You can have a car that’s quick and you can have a car that’s electric. But having both is how you make electric cars popular. As you probably know, the first electric vehicles rolled out in the late 1800s and for a while in the early 1900s, it looked like they might actually beat internal combustion vehicles. ALISSA WALKER: All of a sudden, the tube just vanished from outside of SpaceX headquarters, where he had been actually blocking like sidewalk and pedestrian access for quite some time, which just seems like the most perfect metaphor for an Elon Musk’s Transportation Innovation.
