As a guy who has built a three wheeled solar car with middle schoolers in 1988 that was the DOE best educational project in the U.S. in 1988 and displayed for 6 weeks at the Smithsonian, I think your company and Tesla would have a great fit due to the innovation factor. I hope you make it into mass production. Jonathan Cole
Having founded numerous companies, the hardest thing is to be under capitalized, because any glitch in the economic conditions can cause an otherwise great company to fail. Between 1900 and now there have been over 4000 car manufacturers. Many of them had great ideas and innovations. Unfortunately when a great innovative company goes bust, their best ideas are lost. It is necessary to have a strategy that allows the company to survive. If the innovators are too egotistical to figure out alliances and partnerships then there only hope is luck to survive the reality of an ever changing product ecosystem. One of my companies involved collector car restorations and I can say with certainty that most innovative companies usually lost the race even though their products were superior to other companies of their time.