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Mind citing your 30k number? From most of the things I've seen the ZEV credits are a pretty small percentage of total revenue on a Tesla. I think the anti-deal
by vvanders 12y ago
Mind citing your 30k number? From most of the things I've seen the ZEV credits are a pretty small percentage of total revenue on a Tesla.
I think the anti-dealer stance comes from dealers not having an incentive to sell EVs when they are familiar with traditional ICE cars. There's been quite a few stories of Nissan having issues with their dealerships not being very interested in selling Leafs for instance.
- bsdetector 12y agoIt's hard to say how much they make on each car sold because they are purposely obscuring this. If you listen at 6:15 to the earnings call you'll hear them totally dodge a totally straightforward question on how many credits per car: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3147926-tesla-motors-tsla-q1-2015-results-earnings-call-webcast http://seekingalpha.com/article/3147926-tesla-motors-tsla-q1... Elon says credits sometimes sell for as little as 50%. They are rumored to be getting 9 credits for most cars sold in ZEV states (most cars in US). Credits are worth $5000 in offset fines. So $22k per car even at heavily discount ZEV prices.
- duaneb 12y agoI got the impression that, in addition, electric engines are less profitable to maintain because they wear out slower, so maintenance and repair have a much lower profit. Is there any truth to that?