Longer term, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) envisions selling around 500K units through a combination of the Gen 3 sedan (around 200K units), Gen 3 SUV (about 150K units), Model S/X (roughly 90K units) and the next Gen Roadster. From a timing standpoint, the company intends to start deliveries of the Model X in 2015 and hopes to start the Gen 3 production by 2017:
This looks pretty interesting
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/05/tesla-motors-inc-tsla-envisions-selling-around-500k-units-long-term/
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Personally I get a lot of info out of his publicly recorded interviews and I watch for subtlety as well. However, with this article there are no quotes from Elon directly. It's just summarizing their conversation/interview. So, it's difficult to know the exact context. Also, it seems like there would have been a lot more information transferred because the summary is just summarizing. If this interview was made public as an audio or video recording, then I think we would get a ton more information out of it because we would hear exactly what questions were asked and exactly what Elon's responses were. As it stands we have a "summary" version and as an individual investor it makes me feel like an outsider while Goldman Sachs has the insider position.
On a side note, Goldman Sachs seems to have "published" this article via a website I've never heard of and an editor apparently based out of Karachi, Pakistan (http://www.valuewalk.com/author/sheerazraza/, http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=38562351&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=4Smb&locale=en_US&srchid=1844675061369673587940).
It is quite possible that this information was disseminated in this manner to avoid running afoul of the SEC.