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The Model S however is not yet available in the UK or Japan. The BMWi3 has worldwide status, right from the start.
What's the retail price of these, again?
Number of reservations is above 100k. I am one of them.
They are several big fleet orders with special contracts.
In Munich alone they sold a few thousand.
Source?
We have now learned from BMW's Ian Robertson that there are 100,000 people around the world who have made reservations for the i3, and a "significant number" of them have made deposits.
Nissan began the online-only reservation process on April 20, 2010, charging a fully refundable US$99 reservation fee that allowed customers to secure a place on the list to purchase or lease a Leaf. It limited reservations to one per household[SUP][283][/SUP][SUP][284][/SUP][SUP][285][/SUP] and by July 2010 it had received approximately 17,000 reservations.[SUP][286][/SUP] The carmaker reported that more than 55% of the reservations were from what Nissan calls its primary launch markets in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Tennessee, where the carmaker has its US headquarters and an auto factory.[SUP][286][/SUP][SUP][287][/SUP] By September 2010 Nissan announced it had reached 20,000 reservations, and it did not accept any more reservations for the remainder of 2010.[SUP][288][/SUP] In July 2011, Nissan stated that only 48% of Leaf reservations from the initial 2010 process materialized into firm orders.[SUP][267][/SUP] The US$99 reservation fee was ended in mid April 2012, and customers are since allowed to buy the Leaf directly from dealers, keeping the online reservation as optional.[SUP][289][/SUP]
Honestly, I think 30.000 orders is actually not that much.
The car is priced below 40.000 euro here in germany with a very advanced Navi System Standard.
At this price point the car is by far the most attractive electric car here. There are others like the VW E-up, Renault Zoe or Nissan Leaf in a similar or lower price range. Yet none of these cars can really compete with the i3.
The Model S is simply a lot more expensive and does therefore apply to a very different type of customer.
It may be popular in Germany, but I don't have the impression that it's popular here. The BMW i-section of the biggest electric car forum here is eerily quiet, with a new post every few days (currently the last post was made on September 3rd). The Tesla-section has activity in dozens of *threads* every day, and the Leaf- and Mitsubishi i-sections also have steady activity every day. Now, some of the discussions might be going on at BMW forums and the like, but the BMW crowd doesn't strike me as most enthusiastic about EVs. Here, if the BMW i3 gets sales in the area of 10% of the Leaf, I'm thinking they should be quite pleased with that.Honestly, I think 30.000 orders is actually not that much.
The car is priced below 40.000 euro here in germany with a very advanced Navi System Standard.
At this price point the car is by far the most attractive electric car here. There are others like the VW E-up, Renault Zoe or Nissan Leaf in a similar or lower price range. Yet none of these cars can really compete with the i3.
The Model S is simply a lot more expensive and does therefore apply to a very different type of customer.
The Tesla Roadster is a modified Lotus Elise. It's not an electric car designed from stretch.
The Model S however is not yet available in the UK or Japan. The BMWi3 has worldwide status, right from the start.
Nethertheless, according to my info BMW has already more than 30.000 orders. It's basically sold out through the whole 2014.
BMW stock made new ATH today in Frankfurt, by the way.
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