He didn't give a date for 1 million e-cats :) He just says he is working towards that!
2012/1/6 Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> > One of the more extravagant and incredible (on any basis) claims made by > Rossi on his blog is that he is tooling up to manufacture a million E-cats > during calendar year 2012. Comments on the moletrap forum noted that: > > "A million ECats. National Instruments stock must be going up, then. I'd > like to know who is supplying his valves and other stuff like that there. > An order for a million of anything will make a major contribution to the > bottom line of most any company. Unless it's anchovies." > > "One million of the 5kW e-cats is only $5 billion dollars of sales. > Assuming a 75% GPM, he only has to come up with $1.25 billion in capital to > finance that. Maybe he got more for his house than I thought. Oh, but of > course, that's what he needs investors for: production capital." > > "Maybe I lack imagination, but I am having trouble imagining anyone > anywhere manufacturing one million of anything without significant and > highly visible infrastructure. Who is going to do all this and where? If it > is five guys in a garage in Bologna, they had better get cracking. They > need to build 2 ecats every minute around the clock to meet their goal. > That could seriously cut in on blogging time." > > Someone compared the construction of an E-cat or Hyperion to that of a > Toyota automobile and examined the statistics associated with that sort of > endeavor: > > "In 2002, Toyota began scouting locations in Alabama, Arkansas, > Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas for a new assembly plant to build the > second generation Tundra pickup.[1] After long deliberations including the > offer of $227 million in subsidies, a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) site in San > Antonio was selected as the location for the new 2,000,000-square-foot > (190,000 m2) assembly plant.[2][3] Toyota broke ground at the new plant > site on 17 October 2003.[4] During construction, the project evolved from a > simple assembly plant into an automotive production site including several > on-site suppliers which shipped directly to the factory. In addition, > Toyota announced that production capacity, originally planned for 150,000 > units per year, would be expanded to 200,000 units. This increase brought > Toyota's investment in the plant to $1.2 Billion. Following four years of > construction, the first new Tundra pickups rolled off the line in November > 2006 during a grand-openeing celebration which drew executives, employees > and dealers of Toyota from around the country." > > > http://www.moletrap.co.uk/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=2212&page=693#Item_6 > > I am amazed that anyone takes Rossi's claim seriously that he will produce > a million units and sell them for under $1500 in 2012. > > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
