Are you?
How many EVs have they sold so far? (Spoiler: it's shockingly close to 0. And is
exactly 0 among cars in this survey- they delivered their first bev in the US
ever about 5 weeks ago- and they're only available in a very few states in tiny quantities- and based on the same platform as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6)
I specifically called Hyundai/Kia out as the one exception-- but noted they still sell ~10 times fewer EVs than Tesla-- and honestly that's mostly on the strength of THIS years sales... if we stick to 2021 which is about as late as the survey would include, Kia only sold about 20k BEVs in the US, and Hyundai about 14k.
Both of which sold
zero EVs in this survey.
They DO have an EV that might be in the survey-- the i3- Which is now discontinued... and they sold only about 1500 of them in 2021...another ~1500 in 2020.
So not 0, but damn close. (For contrast, Tesla sold roughly 2x that many EVs
per day in 2021)
The Mach E actually had sales suspended for quality problems...
Ford has issued a stop delivery on specific 2020 and 2021 Mach-E models due to a safety issue that may cause the car to become immobile.
www.edmunds.com
Hilariously the root cause seems to be something Tesla ran into too... back in 2012, and fixed soon after. 10 years later Ford making the same mistakes.
But even then in all of 2021 they sold just over 27,000 of them in the US.... which represents less than
two weeks of Tesla EV sales in 2021. So again, not really "competition"
They sold just over 40k EVs i 2021. (Think about how NOT competitive Ford is when Porsche is outselling them in this market)... But again that represents sales well over 20x smaller than Tesla in 2021. And all their vehicles in the space are well north of 100k.
Given their EVs cost significantly more than a Plaid Model S and are slower I'd sure HOPE the interior is nice!
They sell one EV total during the survey period. The Leaf. Same as their situation 10 years ago.
In 2021 they sold a whopping.... 14,239 of them. Not even as many EVs as Ford, let alone Porsche.
14k sales represents less than
one week of Tesla sales in 2021.
I will stop here before the list gets silly long
The list was silly from the start
. Virtually every OEM makes EVs now. You get the point.
Yes, the point is you mistakenly think most OEMs make any significant volume of EVs.
That is factually wrong.
Or to put it another way... let's
combine all of the BEV output from Genesis, Lexus, Cadillac, BMW, Ford, Porsche, AND Nissan for all of 2021.
It adds up to 0+0+0+1500+27k+40k+14k= 82.5k BEVs. Almost half of those from Porsche.
Tesla sold just a bit short of 1,000,000 BEVs in 2021. Over 11x more.
And if you exclude just porsche- where again most of their EV trims are well north of 100k- it's over 20x Tesla sales to everyone else COMBINED in that list.
Of all the "competition" you imagine exists, no legacy OEM, other than VW, managed to sell even
1/20th as many BEVs as Tesla did in 2021--- and most of VWs sales were overseas which the survey doesn't cover.
And 2022 isn't looking a ton better for the "competition" here either.
US BEV registrations in Q1 of 2022 for example-- Tesla was just under 72% of
all of them at 113,882 vehicles.
Hyundai/Kia was #2 at 15,414... Barely 1/10th of Teslas sales.
Ford was next at 7407, barely 1/20th of Teslas sales- and mostly the Mach E that's now suspended and likely to be recalled.
After those you've got Nissan, VW, Polestar with a few thousand each... then Rivian with 701... and nobody else even managed to hit 500.
"competition"
This entire argument is silly.
It is, but for reasons other than the ones you were thinking
I notice you also entirely skipped over the fact that even JD power admits most of the "quality" issues were with infotainment.... which again is old people who scored Dodge near #1 because they haven't changed their cabin switches in 20 years and they don't understand this fancy new technology the kids are using.