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> German carmakers make as many cars per day as Tesla makes in a year This may have been true three years ago, but Tesla made over 350000 cars last year. By yo
by davidgould 7y ago
> German carmakers make as many cars per day as Tesla makes in a year
This may have been true three years ago, but Tesla made over 350000 cars last year. By your math the German carmakers are making 128 million cars per year. They are not.
- Barrin92 7y agoper week then, the gist of it is that the electric car market is small compared to the gigantic scale that the German car industry works at. And that's going to stay this way for a long time, and there is no reason for industry leaders to panic. They're big companies with comfortable profits who have time to adjust instead of trying to overcorrect. And that's not just true for German carmakers. In the US there's been a trend again towards trucks as Millenials increasingly move to the Sunbelt and away from the coasts and benefit off the cheap gas prices. The idea that everyone is going to start to drive electric seems increasingly dubious to me to begin with. The big problem of the future of electric vehicles is going to be demand.
- pmorici 7y agoNokia was a big company with comfortable profits too in 2007. If you haven't yet I'd suggest going and driving a Model 3 around for a day. Tesla is supply constrained right now the demand is infinite for these cars and soon trucks as volume drives down price.
- davidgould 7y ago> per week then So your new claim is that the Germans build 350,000 * 52 = 18.2 million cars yearly? You have already been corrected on this point, and the real number, 6.3 million is easily discovered, so one may well wonder why you persist in the error.