Reviews of the $57,400 Model S are in, and are generally positive, Jalopnik reports.
Even a luxury car like the Model S remains one of the larger purchases its customers will make, and the Model S carries a long list of risks, from the mundane to the serious.
The Model S range will still depend on how you drive it, and needs a plug more powerful than a standard household outlet for any sizable amount of energy in under a few hours. Tesla has sold a total of 2,150 cars to date; it's never dealt with thousands of customers, nor run a high-volume factory.
The launch of the Fisker Karma has been plagued by software bugs and battery recalls, and while Musk says the Model S passed all crash tests with flying colors, Tesla's customers — more than 10,000 of whom have already paid $5,000 deposits — will be the test bed of a new company with a new model in what's essentially a new factory.
