I thought when Elon came to Japan Tesla Japan could have an interview TV program in major channels, such as NHK (like small BBC). No such move so nobody knows about Elon.
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Sorry let's go back on topic.I thought when Elon came to Japan Tesla Japan could have an interview TV program in major channels, such as NHK (like small BBC). No such move so nobody knows about Elon.
Tesla China has a Record Unsold Inventory of 2301 cars | CarNewsChina.com - China Auto News
Anybody know how true this is? I just have a hard time believing it due to the whole timing of customs vs registrations
Tesla China has a Record Unsold Inventory of 2301 cars | CarNewsChina.com - China Auto News
Anybody know how true this is? I just have a hard time believing it due to the whole timing of customs vs registrations
Im very bearish on Tesla in China but the number doesnt make any sense, look at imported cars and recognized revenues, i think its 1000 cars at most, maybe they include cars sold to resellers that they in turn cant sell to end consumer, but there is no way 2000 cars are sitting in China. Assume Tesla sold sold. ca 3600-4000 in China in 2014, and ca. 5000 were imported (there is a gap between import and buyer receiving car so 100-200 were on the way to buyer).
On the other hand i would guess that more then 2/3 cancelled cars were from scalpers not customers switched to D, scalpers ordered second batch before receiving first ones expecting sell them in no time, as sales didnt go as expected they didnt pick up second wave
Just to further chime in on the 2k number being totally unbelievable consider the deliveries vs production numbers at the end of Q4. Tesla stated year end deliveries of 31,655 with total production being 35k. That leaves 3,345 in "inventory" at the end of the year. Subtract out the 1,400 that couldn't make it in time and that leaves 1,945. There is what? 200 total stores/service centers around the globe now? And lets just take a WAG and assume that the average across the board is 4 cars (more like 2 per store, but the SCs have like 10-20 cars for loaners... so I think 4 is a fair low-ish number). That's another 800 cars for the purpose of loaner/demo/test. So the number is now down to 1,145 "stranded" cars *somewhere* around the globe. And that is pretty much at a worst case scenerio. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of fleet cars is much higher, but you can see it is *very* easy to shoot holes all through the 2k theory.
edit: The 1,145 "stranded" even if remotely true would include the entire globe... at any given time there is bound to be cars that were built and canceled at the last minute at more places than just China... so I am not even inclined to think that the number of "stranded" cars in China is even at 1k... But, either way, as I said, 2k is just silly.
You get what you pay for with a Geely, check out the youtube video link below for safety crash tests on Chinese made Geely cars (zero out of 5) stars.
Chinese Car Scores Zero in Crash Test | Drive.com.au - YouTube
You get what you pay for with a Geely, check out the youtube video link below for safety crash tests on Chinese made Geely cars (zero out of 5) stars.
Chinese Car Scores Zero in Crash Test | Drive.com.au - YouTube
D model cannibalizing standard model in Q4, and I believe similar thing might happen in Q3 when model X come out. China market is particularly appealing to SUV, and so does NA at least (not sure EU). I think one of the reasons not to reveal model X before delivery is to avoid the situation post D model reveal.
maoing, do you see improvements in the awareness of Tesla now that the D is out? Is it mentioned in the media?
Thanks