Toyota and Tesla will work for production and development of electric vehicles. Thus, Tesla will bring on market Model S in 2012, and Toyota will meet its plan to launch an electric range vehicle on the market until that year.
The Toyota officials have announced a collaboration with the Americans from Tesla to produce electric vehicles. The partnership between the two companies involving the Japanese obligation to buy Tesla shares by 50 million dollars. The guys from Tesla have announced that they will take Nummi plant in Fremont, California, which will be used for Tesla Model S production.
The Tesla Model S production will begin in 2012 and the price of this model should be located at around $49,000. According to first information, the autonomy of Tesla Model S is 300 miles, obtained from a load of 3-5 hours. Elon Musk, Tesla Motors chief, said that will present closely prototypes of production this year.
The NUMMI plant in California produced Toyota Corolla and Tacoma models. This featureis one the largest of this kind in the world and has the capacity to produce 500,000 units per year. With the entry of Tesla Model S production, the number of units will leave the automaker gate of electric vehicles should increase significantly, they will be limited only of the number of the electric batteries which can be obtained.
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