CliffG
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It is true. In the USA the Leaf, Volt, plug in Prius and Ford C max have all outsold Tesla YTD. And if you look at last month another Ford and the I3 outsold Tesla. Year to date Tesla has only a 12% share of the plug in market. Monthly Plug-In Sales Scorecard
Yup. Then read further down, in the Tesla section:
As foretold by the company, Summer of 2014 can loosely be translated as “no soup for you” United States when it comes to Model S deliveries. And true to their word, for August very, very few deliveries took place in the United States as Tesla focused on AsiaNot helping August sales was Tesla shutting down its Fremont assembly facility for two weeks in late July/early August in preparation for the upcoming Model X, and to expand Model S production by 25%.
and:
[my emphasis]Just about every American who was looking for a new Model S from earlier this Spring/Summer has a report in their hand that it is now ‘in production’ in some form or another and they are going to get it before THIS month’s end. September is practically guaranteed to be a blow-out month for the automaker.
I guess those notions don't fit the message he wanted to push.
I don't know anything about the auto business, and hope someone here can shed some light - Tesla sells directly to the end buyer while other manufacturers, like BMW, sell in bulk (if they can) to dealerships. Are the numbers in this report comparing the number of i3s sold to dealers (and so some number is still sitting on lots) or are they sales to end-users? Are these numbers worth even looking at?