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In the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because those 'incentives' where dropped in 2020. So the article is a

by thdrdt 7y ago

In the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because those 'incentives' where dropped in 2020. So the article is a kind of old news. And what also is a kind of misleading is that overall cars sales went up in Europe. Personally I think Tesla is going to have a hard time in the near future now all big brands start producing EVs. The Porsche Taycan for example made a lot of Tesla owners switch to Porsche. I believe the same will happen when the new BMW i4 launches next year. And most European people don't care much about range. Distances are very different here. In the Netherlands you can cross the country with a 400km battery.

Theodores 7y ago
> The Porsche Taycan for example made a lot of Tesla owners switch to Porsche. They must be walking then. The Taycan has had a lot of deposits put down, but we are way off significant numbers of deliveries. The factory isn't debugged yet. I would be surprised to see a Taycan in the wild on the streets any time this year, even in Knightsbridge or the Silverstone car park. Tesla cars are quite common (if still unusual and therefore noteworthy) even in provincial towns.
- thdrdt 7y ago
  Delivery is not the point. The point is that when something better comes along people switch. Tesla ruled almost all EV classes because there were simply no other EVs in those classes. But that is going to change in the near future. The Taycan is in the luxury sports car class. And that is the first class where Tesla is going to lose customers.
bkor 7y ago
> In the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because those 'incentives' where dropped in 2020. October 2019 also had almost no deliveries due to no vessels delivering Tesla's to Europe (think they arrive in Zeebrugge Belgium). One car carrier has 4000+ cars on it. They're then delivered quickly after that. The incentives is just part of this. Edit: For a tracker of these car carries, see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJcrkZ-T3NmLkLnTo6xqbdtaOI/htmlview# https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...

by thdrdt 7y ago

Theodores 7y ago

> The Porsche Taycan for example made a lot of Tesla owners switch to Porsche. They must be walking then. The Taycan has had a lot of deposits put down, but we are way off significant numbers of deliveries. The factory isn't debugged yet. I would be surprised to see a Taycan in the wild on the streets any time this year, even in Knightsbridge or the Silverstone car park. Tesla cars are quite common (if still unusual and therefore noteworthy) even in provincial towns.

thdrdt 7y ago
Delivery is not the point. The point is that when something better comes along people switch. Tesla ruled almost all EV classes because there were simply no other EVs in those classes. But that is going to change in the near future. The Taycan is in the luxury sports car class. And that is the first class where Tesla is going to lose customers.

bkor 7y ago

> In the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because those 'incentives' where dropped in 2020. October 2019 also had almost no deliveries due to no vessels delivering Tesla's to Europe (think they arrive in Zeebrugge Belgium). One car carrier has 4000+ cars on it. They're then delivered quickly after that. The incentives is just part of this. Edit: For a tracker of these car carries, see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJcrkZ-T3NmLkLnTo6xqbdtaOI/htmlview# https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...