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Only if other companies aren’t growing faster. VW tripled electric car sales in 2020 compared to 2021: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2021/01/Volkswagen-b
by legulere 6y ago
Only if other companies aren’t growing faster. VW tripled electric car sales in 2020 compared to 2021: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2021/01/Volkswagen-brand-triples-deliveries-of-all-electric-vehicles-in-2020.html# https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2021/01/Volkswagen-bran...
- watt 6y agoWhen you sold 1 car yesterday, and sell 2 today, you have doubled your sales. It's misleading to talk about growth in terms of percentage points (or doubling/tripling, etc), if it's somewhat low numbers.
- kaba0 6y agoAre you seriously writing it under a comment that just linearly extrapolated tesla’s production?
- vesinisa 6y agoI am not even downvoting that comment because it seems to be such a great example of the blatant cognitive dissonance Tesla and Musk evoke in many people.
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- yarcob 6y agoVW has just started selling their first "real" electric cars based on their all new platform. If that platform works out then Tesla is going to compete not against one or two new models, but they'll suddenly compete against two dozen models. Unless VW fucks something up in the next year, I just don't know how Tesla expects to compete with them. Tesla only has a handful of high end cars; they have no family cars, no vans, no compact cars, no busses. VW is great at building models for every niche and at every price point. No matter what kind of car you want, VW (or Skoda or Audi) has multiple options for you. Tesla is currently still ahead, but I'm not sure they can match the breadth of VWs upcoming model palette (if VWs new platform works out).
- chrisseaton 6y ago> they have no family cars Why can’t you use a Tesla for a family car? Most of them have four seats. What else do you need for most families?
- deanak 6y agoA non-touchscreen way to operate windshield wipers. VW makes a car with an electric drivetrain, Tesla makes an electric drivetrain with a place to put people and things.
- chrisseaton 6y agoI don’t really get what you mean, sorry? Why does a family need different wiper controls to a single person? And obviously you can put people and things in a Tesla.
- easton 6y agoThey’re saying that it’s not a real “car” unless there’s physical wiper controls.
- jiofih 6y agoOr reins. Steering wheels are inaccurate and a dangerous invention, people have already died because of it.
- deanak 6y agoSo the person responsible for keeping their family alive doesn't look away from the road trying to perform a very common task. A car is designed around the idea that maintaining the driver's attention on the road is the primary function. I am not sure what is driving the design of Teslas for the newer models. I like Teslas in general, but their decision to remove things like buttons and stalks from their vehicles is both dangerous and stupid, and people have already died because of it.
- bildung 6y agoVW already sold 134k in 2020, of which 56k were the id.3 that effectively was available since september 2020.
- ttkari 6y agoIn Norway, where 54% on new cars sold in 2020 were electric, Volkswagen group sold more than twice as many electric cars (mostly Audi e-Tron and VW id.3) as Tesla.
- jimbokun 6y agoSame goes for extrapolating Tesla results, no?