Elon Musk: Tesla can make a few million cars a year by 2025
Electric car company Tesla’s stated long-term goal has been to make 500,000 electric cars a year by 2020, but on Tuesday at the Detroit Auto Show, Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the bar even higher. He said in an onstage Q&A, (live blogged by the Verge), that he thinks Tesla can make a few millions cars a year by 2025.
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“We’re going to keep driving our volume as high as we can because our goal is fundamentally to transition the world to electric cars.”[/blockquote]

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, unveils the dual engine chassis of the new Tesla ‘D’ model at the Hawthorne Airport October 09, 2014 in Hawthorne, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
In [company]Tesla[/company]’s most recent earnings, the company was estimating that it would ship about 33,000 vehicles in 2014, and that’s with selling the Model S only. Tesla’s Model X goes on sale later this year, and down the road its third car, the Model 3, will launch as well.
Musk told the interviewer that by 2020, with the Model 3 on the market and with 500,000 cars sold, it will be a safe bet that Tesla will start turning a profit. Musk said to make the Model 3 work, economically, Tesla has to make everything with the car cost about half as much.