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Tesla has already sold every car they can manufacture, and their entry price is $40k-ish in the USA. Other manufacturers are limiting how many BEVs they produce
by manicdee 7y ago
Tesla has already sold every car they can manufacture, and their entry price is $40k-ish in the USA. Other manufacturers are limiting how many BEVs they produce, and still managing to sell most of the ones they build even though they are universally objectively worse than any Tesla offering.
Tesla Model 3 is the best selling BEV in every market it participates in (not sure about numbers compared to PHEVs). It is selling in comparable quantities to ICE vehicles in the same price range.
A significant number of people buying Model 3 are upgrading from cars costing half the price.
There is little to no indication that EV adoption will slow down (before pointing to a drop in Model 3 sales in the USA consider that the one factory supplies the entire world outside China).
- clouddrover 7y ago> Tesla Model 3 is the best selling BEV in every market it participates in No, that's incorrect. The Model 3 is the second best seller in France: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/france-november-2019.html https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/france-november-2019.h... It's the third best seller in Germany: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/germany-november-2019.html https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/germany-november-2019.... And it's the 9th best selling BEV in China: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/china-november-2019-updated.html https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/china-november-2019-up...
- manicdee 7y agoChinese Model 3 production only started in November. Check back in February, you’ll find it’s the highest selling vehicle (perhaps by model, though I am betting also by manufacturer). Europe-wide, Tesla Model 3 is top of the charts by a wide margin. The articles you linked mentioned this, France and Germany are behind because the vast demand for Tesla in Netherlands and Norway is sucking all the supply up before France and Germany get a seat at the table. As Fremont production improves and the German Tesla factory opens, we’ll see that lead grow as Europeans switch to BEVs en masse to escape the cheating ICE manufacturers.
- clouddrover 7y agoIt's not the best selling EV in the biggest EV market, China. Your claim was false. Cop to it instead of making excuses.
- manicdee 7y agoYou are basing that on less than one month of sales after the factory just opened. Your claim is bogus, acknowledge that and be prepared to wait for figures for a complete month of Model 3 actually being available in that market. By February the factory should be working close to its capacity, let’s see what sales are like once Tesla is actually participating in that market.
- clouddrover 7y agoNo, I'm basing that on the actual sales figures. The Model 3 has been on sale in China since March last year: https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/04/china-march-2019.html https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/04/china-march-2019.html
- manicdee 7y agoWell, learn a new thing every day :D Let’s see what News February brings shall we? 5300 seems quite low given China’s size compared to, say, Australia. No doubt you will claim it is demand constrained, but that number looks like one boatload. That market is supply constrained.