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Which to me speaks to Electrek wanting to write a clickbait piece about Tesla rather than analyze the market. EV sales are up 4x YoY in September, due to new i
by reitzensteinm 6y ago
Which to me speaks to Electrek wanting to write a clickbait piece about Tesla rather than analyze the market.
EV sales are up 4x YoY in September, due to new incentives. What is the structure? Do all Model 3s qualify or are they too expensive? How are other existing models impacted - are new entrants responsible for the growth? How would the Model 3 have sold if Q2 were not impacted by Fremont shut down?
There's a genuinely interesting article that could be written about it. I didn't expect much when I scrolled down to their Electrek's take section but what's there is poor even by their standards. It's because of Gigafactory Berlin? Really?
The sad truth is that there are three stories that are easy to write and generate the vast majority of clicks in the EV space. "Tesla's record sales", "Tesla fucks up xyz" and "Future Tesla plans". Why write about anything in depth when you can knock out one of those in an hour or two.
Even on HN, the entire ID.3 launch got about as much attention as this story has here. When personally I believe it'll go down in history as having comparable significance to the Model 3.
Finding decent in depth BEV news stories is so hard I almost want to bite the bullet and start doing it myself. It's one of the most interesting technical transitions in our lifetime, like living through the Mainframe -> Desktop era. I've been glued to the news since the Roadster.
Yet almost everything written about it is braindead spam written by unashamed Tesla supporters with their thumbs on the scale and bizarre Tesla haters who seem to genuinely believe they've found the next Theranos.