As long as you understand that &quot;losing thousands per sale&quot; is a number achieved by dividing Tesla Motors&#x27; &quot;losses&quot; by the number of cars they&#x27;ve sold, without paying attention to what those losses involve: i.e.: massive investment in capital as expected for a startup in a new industry.<p>Where is Porche&#x27;s supercharger network? How will you charge the car in 15 minutes when there&#x27;s no supercharger available?<p>What change in technology is coming down the pipeline? The so-called &quot;Lithium-Air&quot; battery requires a store of liquid Oxygen (which is not &quot;air&quot; but don&#x27;t let the facts get in the way of a headline), then there are the Aluminium batteries which are nice in the lab. Getting a technology from the lab to production is a decade-long effort, assuming there&#x27;s anyone interested in commercialising the technology.<p>There are incremental changes to Lithium batteries, with a new manufacturing technique promising more capacity and a different process promising batteries that last &quot;forever&quot;.<p>The market for Tesla Model S and Model X right now is people with cash to burn on a status symbol that will be current for at least two years.<p>When the Porche E comes out, the market will already be different. People will be used to the idea of electric cars, there will be more charging stations at all levels, and hopefully we&#x27;ll have something closer to an industry standard for charging.<p>Let&#x27;s revisit the numbers when the Model 3 is out.