As I discussed yesterday in a couple of pieces, Tesla Model 3 sales are beginning to look very good compared to gas cars in its class, and they should even give the top selling passenger cars in the United States a run for their money by summertime. I’m probably going to start doing monthly reports on those sales, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop doing the super fun US electric car sales reports.
Tesla is one of the most popular companies in the US, so why wouldn’t it have one of the most popular cars, right?
In the middle of last month, I published an article about expected Tesla Model 3 sales versus gas car sales in its class. To be clear, the estimates were for all models (not just the Tesla Model 3), with gas car estimates based on April 2017 sales and recent trends. It turned out that estimates for a few of the models were quite off — sometimes high, sometimes low. The good news is that makes this update all the more interesting.
I recently told the story of our solar system installation with Tesla Energy. Well, this episode of our Tesla experience is how I came to find the 2016 build Model S 75D.
In part 1 of this two-part series, I outlined the first 13 of 25 factors that will (or could) impact sales of electric vehicles. These included obvious factors such as range, charging infrastructure, cost, and gas prices.
Tony Seba took the stage at rEVolution 2018 in Amsterdam to share a tale of two technological disruptions in cleantech that we are currently living through and a look at the adoption curves that he believes map out the next few years for them. We dive in below.
Looking at the recent roundup of press surrounding Tesla’s Model 3, it’s clear that the car is making waves. “The most exciting vehicle on the market isn’t a million-dollar supercar, a broad-shouldered truck, or a seven-passenger SUV,” Miles Branman writes (via Digital Trends). “No, the car the world can’t wait to drive is an all-electric sedan from a startup automaker called Tesla.”
Now that Tesla has ushered in the era of electric vehicles (EVs), legacy automakers are desperately racing to catch up.
Vladimir Lenin famously said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” I think the shorts have done something similar. They have hired the shares from us with which we will bankwupt them.
Maarten just wrote an epic piece on Elon Musk’s apparent decision to drop Wall Street and drop a beat on the world via a more enlightened, independent, inspired, societally beneficial, long-term corporate approach than we are used to seeing — even from Tesla.
