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From the NYT article linked in this: > In 2018, Tesla said, it delivered 245,000 cars, mostly in the United States. The research firm IHS Markit, which tracks
by NathanKP 8y ago
From the NYT article linked in this:
> In 2018, Tesla said, it delivered 245,000 cars, mostly in the United States. The research firm IHS Markit, which tracks state motor-vehicle data, counted registrations of 164,000 new Teslas nationwide.
That's a pretty interesting and potentially damning finding. I don't see why anyone would buy an expensive car from Tesla and then fail to register it. It's possible that IHS is just missing legitimately registered cars, but given the long list of exaggerated or just plain false claims made by Musk and Tesla it doesn't seem impossible that they are exaggerating their metric for number of cars delivered.
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- dragontamer 8y agoHmmm... I don't see any reason why Tesla would lie about their delivery numbers though. Halon's Razor would argue that Tesla's grossly accelerated deliveries in Q4 (end-of-the-year) is leading to errors in IHS Markit's numbers. Overall, Tesla clearly has a demand-problem demonstrated by Q1 numbers (30% drop in deliveries, even as the company cut prices worldwide and expanded to China + Europe deliveries). But I don't see any reason to distrust the numbers Tesla is giving out.
- justtopost 8y agoDelivering to resellers or dealers lots may count. Their accounting is known to be... creative.