Tesla Model 3 = Top Selling Car in California
In somewhat of a surprise, for the first time ever, the Tesla Model 3 was the top selling vehicle in California last quarter.
In somewhat of a surprise, for the first time ever, the Tesla Model 3 was the top selling vehicle in California last quarter.
Demand for the Tesla Model 3 remains very high in California, with 15,805 sales throughout Q1 2019, giving it the #1 spot in terms of revenue out of all vehicle models sold — and by a huge margin (79% more than the runner up). As reported last night, it also held the third spot in terms of unit sales.
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Chanan Bos and I sat down with Zac from the hugely popular YouTube show Now You Know. We talked almost entirely about Tesla, but also about the Now You Know show and a few other cleantech topics.
Tesla last week released its Q1 2019 shareholder letter. You can read it in full here. We also had a special livestream and liveblog of the Tesla conference call published here. Below are some of the top highlights from me that I think have been mostly ignored or skimmed over by the press (including the EV press). I’m focusing my attention on the issue of consumer demand for the Model 3.
It is not often that the Wall Street analysts prove Elon Musk right by themselves being wrong within just a few days.
I just published an article examining the FUD around Elon Musk supposedly terminating employees “on a whim” and what that may mean. This, however, isn’t the only recent FUD-based narrative that I feel is worth exploring at the moment.