Sanzabar
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Man the guy at the dealership even talked about a 5-10% AC runoff. You guys are lucky.
Guy at work has one and he said his is in the range of 3-5% run off.
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Man the guy at the dealership even talked about a 5-10% AC runoff. You guys are lucky.
A fair comparison to the Model S would be the 6 and 7 series models, which sold 17,000 units in the US last year vs. about 20,000 units for the Tesla. Not bad for a 4 year old car company. I think by 2020 Tesla could be selling 100,000 cars a year in the U.S., pretty good when you compare them to someone like Audi who sells 180,000 cars each year in the US and certainly enough to make them a viable, profitable company. Estimates are that they sold about 9,000 units last quarter, most of those in the U.S., with an average selling price of around $100k. As a comparison, the MB S Class, BMW 7 Series, Audi A8, and Lexus LS sold about 10,000 units combined during the 1st quarter in the U.S. Impressive indeed for a 4 year old company. The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are the other big EV sellers.
Not exactly what you would call "profitable".
When the gigafactory comes online at full capacity the price of batteries will plummet. Their battery production in that factory will be more then the entire current production of lithium ion packs worldwide.
To support their planned production of 500,000 cars per year. They are selling no where near that amount for their total in 3 years, are we really supposed to believe their business model can support 5 times that amount per year? And at a cost that's actually profitable? From what I can find, the batteries themselves only cost at the higher end of $12k to replace, which means they are paying less. I fail to see how owning the factory that produced the batteries makes up that $20k per car.
Tesla is not losing 20K per car.
http://www.cheatsheet.com/automobil...000-on-every-model-s-it-sells.html/?a=viewall
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/
As of 1:30 PST 1st April 2016 Tesla is reporting just short of 200k deposits down on a Model 3. Even if they have a 50% fall down rate that is pretty damn impressive.
Just asking people in my office, at least 3 others besides myself are seriously considering getting one.
Of the initial 200k orders, they will have more than a 50% fall off. They will still sell a ton of them, which is great, and more are coming daily, so the numbers are going to be huge, but of that first 200k, the drop off will be large.
Its always easy to buy with no strings attached what you dont have to pay for now, dont know when you will have to pay for it, and can walk away at any time. The real issue is how this impacts the automobile world going forward, because they have a major issue on their hands, due to distributor vs direct to consumer.
Man the guy at the dealership even talked about a 5-10% AC runoff. You guys are lucky.
SoCal you can get away with no A/C for a large portion of the year
One of the things I find pretty funny is the big push to preorder. If they are able to produce as many as they say, pre-ordering should not be all that necessary.
Yep. When those credit card bills come due next month I see a bit of a fall off. Also, since we are at least 2 years from any real distribution a large number will abandon when the need/demand/want for a new car becomes immediate.
I think GM benefits from this rush as well if they can get the Bolt on lots sooner then later. People will cancel orders and take in stock inventory.
Do you think many folks will grab the Bolt if it comes out earlier? I'd rather wait for the Tesla...Just for the plain fact that it looks soooooooo much better.
One thing about Tesla's is that they look great. What other electric car looks as good? All these other cars are FUGLY.
One thing about Tesla's is that they look great. What other electric car looks as good? All these other cars are FUGLY.