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What's your basis for 8,600 cars being "surprising"? The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought
by gruez 2y ago
What's your basis for 8,600 cars being "surprising"? The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales. That seems plausible to me. I could totally imagine myself making the leap and buying a car immediately if it meant that I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later.
- simonw 2y agoYou and I evidently have different instincts here.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- FireBeyond 2y ago> The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales. For the country. This happened in one city of one province. Ottawa has 1.4M people in a country of 37M (4%). So 18% of the country's entire volume for the year was sold in a city that has less than 4% of the population. In a weekend. 8600 vehicles sold, representing 18% of the vehicles sold in Canada = 48,000 in a year. Two months of sales would be 8,000. Recognizing that the population isn't evenly distributed, that is actually more like 320 is the expectation... not 8,600. Even multiplying that number by 10 to factor in things like urban/rural still gets you to less than a third of what Tesla claims was sold... > I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later. Just over $3k ($5k CAD).