When I said things were going really well for Tesla lately, I wasn’t kidding. Government loans, profitability reached, store openings – now, a dropped lawsuit. If you’ve been following Tesla, you might remember that on May 26th former Tesla CEO Martin Eberhard filed a lawsuit against Telsa and it’s CEO Elon Musk. The claims were interesting:
Eberhard said that Musk had “defamed” him, he was owed wages, he had received a damaged Tesla Roadster, and to top it all off, he said that Musk was taking credit for founding the company when Eberhard was the founder.
Wow, that’s a lot of grievances there! Tesla had previously filed a motion to dismiss the whole case, but that didn’t work out – the judge ruled it could proceed and the likelihood was that Eberhard would win. So what is Tesla to do? Why settle, of course. At least it appears that way – Eberhard’s lawyer, Yosef Peretz, says that he requested his suit to be dropped on Aug. 7. That’s all we know for now, unless someone releases something.
In other related news, Tesla has released pictures of the Tesla Roadster Sport model, which lists for $20K over the standard car. The Roadster Sport has been made primarily to increase margins – improvements over the standard Roaster include a hand-wound stator with 0-60 times down by 0.2 seconds to 3.7 seconds.
Carbon fiber upper hood area and rear spoiler, a new push-button gear selector and a touch screen on the center stack that displays estimated range along with the number of oil barrels saved by driving an electric vehicle. Is that worth $20K extra? You can decide for yourself by looking at the pictures below.
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