Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA(cleantechnica.com)
cleantechnica.com
Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/08/tesla-model-3-is-1-top-selling-american-car-in-usa/
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Aren’t the three “foreign” cars ranked above it also made in America?
Probably referring to the fact that they are Japanese companies
Where are these numbers coming from? The publication only cites itself as a source.
From a website that has published around 30 pro-Tesla articles in the last week alone[1], which headlines such as:
"Tesla Model 3 Total Cost of Ownership Estimate — Crushing It"
"#1 Highest Grossing Car In USA = Tesla Model 3 … Model Y Will Crush “Tesla Killers” … German Wake-Up Call"
"Tesla Model 3 = Lightning, Model Y = Thunder"
"New BMW 3 Series Too Little, Too Late To Slow Tesla Model 3 Disruption"
"Tesla Model 3 = 4th Best Selling Car In USA (Maybe)"
"#1 Tesla Model S Dominating Large Luxury Car Sales In USA"
"Tesla Crushes Quarterly Delivery Record"
[1] https://cleantechnica.com/?s=tesla
"Tesla Model 3 Total Cost of Ownership Estimate — Crushing It"
"#1 Highest Grossing Car In USA = Tesla Model 3 … Model Y Will Crush “Tesla Killers” … German Wake-Up Call"
"Tesla Model 3 = Lightning, Model Y = Thunder"
"New BMW 3 Series Too Little, Too Late To Slow Tesla Model 3 Disruption"
"Tesla Model 3 = 4th Best Selling Car In USA (Maybe)"
"#1 Tesla Model S Dominating Large Luxury Car Sales In USA"
"Tesla Crushes Quarterly Delivery Record"
[1] https://cleantechnica.com/?s=tesla
Which mostly has to do with having few models (65% of production is in this one model) and a national sales focus (50% in US), rather than the car selling (or rather, manufacturing) so well.
There's multiple US manufacturers which produce >6m cars a year. Tesla is looking at about 0.25m or so. Interestingly enough Tesla has a higher market cap than Ford.
Still, I can't say it's not impressive. Q3 2018 production is more than 3x what it was in Q1 2018. That's pretty ridiculous (although to be fair, growth was flat in the years prior).
There's multiple US manufacturers which produce >6m cars a year. Tesla is looking at about 0.25m or so. Interestingly enough Tesla has a higher market cap than Ford.
Still, I can't say it's not impressive. Q3 2018 production is more than 3x what it was in Q1 2018. That's pretty ridiculous (although to be fair, growth was flat in the years prior).
Why are 90% of the cars on that list terrible? After the Telsa you need to read all the way down to number 15 to find something else i'd actually want to drive/admit owning.
Is it because they're all cheap cars? The auto industry is good at price discrimination.
Tesla has an effect similar to iPhone, where people spend more to have it than what they used to generally for a car before. Even Tesla leadership was surprised by it (they expected to get to $35k sooner, but also didn't expect to be able to sell so many cars at $50k).
Sounds reasonable, but do you have a source?