I just spent a long time — much of the day — putting together 8 charts and graphs comparing Tesla to its luxury brand competitors in the USA. In particular, I took a gander at how the Tesla Model 3 is delivering a swift lebewohl to the small and midsize luxury cars it’s competing against.
Tesla increased its deliveries by more than 100% in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, its previous best quarter in history. In 6 years, its Q3 sales jumped from 321 to 83,500.
Its sales come at the expense of cars all over the map. However, the classes it is most directly competing in are the relevant luxury classes.
Tesla increases deliveries more than 100% quarter over quarter in Q3. Q3 deliveries totaled 55,840 Model 3, 14,470 Model S, and 13,190 Model X.
The world of experts, fake experts, and armchair business magnates has a long history of telling Elon Musk and Tesla what they can’t do.
I’ve been planning to publish our second quarter (Q2) report on large luxury car sales and midsize luxury SUV sales in the US … for a long time. With Tesla’s Q3 sales figures expected tomorrow, it seems 11:00pm tonight is indeed the 11th hour, so here we are.
Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada is solidly on track to achieve a battery production volume of 35 GWh per year (annualized run rate) by the end of 2018. This is two years ahead of the original 2020 target date for achieving these volumes.
Several Democratic Senators and Representatives have introduced legislation to extend the US federal tax credit for zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) by 10 years. The extension is wrapped in the Electric Cars Act of 2018.
After seeing Elon Musk’s reply to Ryan McCaffrey’s offer to help educate new owners during the big delivery push for the end of Q3, I headed over to the Tampa delivery center on Sunday, September 23rd.
There are 8 major items in the Edmunds True Cost to Own figures: Depreciation, Taxes & Fees, Financing, Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance, Repairs, and a possible Tax Credit. For this article, I’m only going to focus on how fuel costs compare between gas cars and electric vehicles (EVs). The other categories should not have much variation. I’ve owned electric cars for the last 7 years, and although they have fewer repairs than my gas cars, the few repairs that have been required have been more expensive.
It’s Saturday night! For me, that means work, work, work (which I love) — including publishing our top 20 stories of the week. In case you missed any of these, below are the 20 CleanTechnica stories that borrowed the most eyeballs and brain cells over the course of the last 7 days.
