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TLDR All the Tesla 3 preorders arrived [1][2] in Switzerland in one month, putting the Tesla sales of usually one year (~1500) into one month, making it the "b
by _Codemonkeyism 7y ago
TLDR
All the Tesla 3 preorders arrived [1][2] in Switzerland in one month, putting the Tesla sales of usually one year (~1500) into one month, making it the "best-selling"[3] car in Switzerland ahead of Skoda and VW (for the month of March).
[1] one with a bit more knowledge than me can probably find the ship and the shipment.
[2] see comments on that article from users getting theirs with that shipment
[3] have probably been sold months earlier, better worded "most-delivered"
- klausjensen 7y agoThat is a super important piece of information to put this in perspective. Nice catch.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y ago#TorchedByElonCultOnHN
- lazyjones 7y agoNot true. The first Model 3 arrived in Switzerland in the 3rd week of February (2019-02-16). Tesla already sold 316 in February 2019 (+754% YoY). How much of an exceptional month March will be for the year, we'll see after the April data is released. The number of preorders for Model 3 in Switzerland should be easily 1 order of magnitude higher than what they delivered in March.
- simion314 7y agoYour comment contains exact numbers why not also put the source where you found them?
- short_sells_poo 7y ago> Tesla already sold 316 in February 2019 (+754% YoY). I'm sure that's not your intention but please don't quote % numbers like this because it is extremely misleading and has zero indicative value. Going from selling one car to selling 100 is a 10000% increase. Is that a meaningful figure? No. All it does is inflate the percieved growth and makes the post look biased and suspect of having an agenda. Values that are useful in such a context is the number of cars sold from other makers in the same segment or the growth of new models from other brands.
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- threeseed 7y agoHow is it definitely "not true" if your position is to just wait and see until April ? And not sure why YoY numbers are important given that it's a cheaper car being sold here. Of course it's going to be higher. Problem of course is a lot less margin.
- lazyjones 7y ago> How is it definitely "not true" if your position is to just wait and see until April ? "All the Tesla 3 preorders arrived [1][2] in Switzerland in one month" is of course complete nonsense. Because not only did plenty arrive in February already, but the preorders were much higher than what came in March.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoThis is probably a Gauss curve with some early, then peaking, then going down again.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoI love your "The recent trend of ideologically motivated downvoting of factual arguments [...]" and then downvoting on ideological grounds with "+754%" right out "How to Lie with Statistics". Looking at the graph in the article shows the whole picture.
- lazyjones 7y ago> then downvoting on ideological grounds I downvoted a clearly factually wrong statement, namely that "all preorders were delivered in one month". The "754%" were a direct quote, source above, that indicates clearly that March wasn't the first (and only) month with increased sales due to the Model 3. Individual sales figures for the Model 3 were not available to me, otherwise I would have posted them (my estimate is around 280-300).
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoThe "all preorders" was a generalization for "the peak of a steep Gauss curve was in one month". At least that was my explanation. What would be yours? Most people in Switzerland suddenly bought Model3s instead of VM Golfs in February?
- michaelscott 7y agoIf that YoY figure is for Model 3s in Switzerland, then you really can't quote it as a figure with any statistical honesty. A year from first delivery hasn't even elapsed yet.
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- disiplus 7y agosource https://www.auto.swiss/home/ https://www.auto.swiss/home/ I'm sure those numbers will drop a lot.
- jsight 7y agoYeah, tbh, I get a little tired of the narratives around Tesla's individual European country deliveries. Both the fans and the more bearish have posted stats like this from time to time based on short-term trends. The more interesting figure will be the whole year figure, IMO. Month to month values will fluctuate wildly, by the nature of their handling of inventory.