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Tesla Model 3 Becomes Best Selling Electric Car In World (cleantechnica.com)
Jose Pontes of EV Volumes and CleanTechnica has crunched some numbers and found that the Tesla Model 3 is now the best selling plug-in vehicle in the world. "In fact, the Model 3 was approximately 55,000 sales above the #2 BAIC EC-Series, an extremely popular Chinese model," CleanTechnica reports. "The Model 3 gobbled 7% of the plug-in vehicle market, while the #2 EC-Series and #3 Nissan LEAF each had 4%." From the report: After those top three, as the chart shows, the Tesla Model S and Model X were #4 and #5, respectively. They were followed by three Chinese models and then the Toyota Prius Prime and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. The Model 3 (and others) helped push the world plug-in vehicle share up to 2.1% in 2018. (Double that 4 times and we're at about 30% market share.) [...] Remember, 93% of plug-in vehicle sales in 2018 were not Model 3 sales. Nearly 2 million non -- Model 3 electric cars, SUVs, and crossovers made it into consumers' parking spots. Still, there's clearly a new king of the hill, and its young Tesla's 4th model.
So basically you're saying your a corporate sheep and trying to make the case that we should be as well. I paid less than that for my Explorer and it has far more utility than your Model 3.
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You don't do yourself any favours by calling cars like the iPace a "compliance car".
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You have to understand: Rei is a Tesla zealot and a Musk fanboy. He was fed a line that Tesla was going to take over car production because they were "smarter" and could use "Agile methods" and "automation" to out produce everyone. It was a line that many of tech people fell for as well, because they assume building anything is just like building software and websites. At the beginning they were bleating about how revolutionary the Tesla production lines were. They counted every robot shipped to the factories. Turned out that automation didn't work. So Tesla built tents and hired a ton of people to assemble their cars, just like the "legacy" manufacturers. Now the zealots are convinced that Tesla has some sort of magic battery chemistry and an AI chip. They are also convinced in a Moores Law of battery density is guaranteed to happen. The truth is we are likely within 30% of what we can get out of battery storage density. That will be plenty for many uses, but will never supplant all ICE.