Model 3 August Delivery Figures published By SMMT

[Jason71]

SMMT figures show the model 3 was the third best selling car in the UK in August at 2082 cars sold ( assume this means delivered). I know this reflects years of pent up demand but still pretty good going.
It also means there are a lot of orders outstanding still given that the order numbers (not withstanding cancellations) are somewhere around 8000 by now.

 

[Roy W.]

SMMT figures show the model 3 was the third best selling car in the UK in August at 2082 cars sold ( assume this means delivered). I know this reflects years of pent up demand but still pretty good going.
It also means there are a lot of orders outstanding still given that the order numbers (not withstanding cancellations) are somewhere around 8000 by now.

That’s good. Can’t wait until the September figures come out!

 

[Jason71]

That’s good. Can’t wait until the September figures come out!

Ahh but then in October when it drops right off due to the silly quarterly US cycle the headline will be "Tesla Model 3 UK sales Collapse"

 

[NorfolkMustard]

Also note the YTD 20k lower business car registrations compared with last year. Some will be due to delaying until next years BIK levels come into force for BEVs


Car Registrations

 

[Fullerene]

Also note the YTD 20k lower business car registrations compared with last year. Some will be due to delaying until next years BIK levels come into force for BEVs


Car Registrations

My Mrs almost suffered this - it's partially due to the lack of new cars available due to the diesel issue, the choice that her lease company had was really restricted. The only green car on offer was the totally over budget XC90 T8, in my opinion a joke of a green car, a bit like putting a solar Panel on a Saturn 5 to try and claim a tax break. Her 4 year lease was up and she was given the option to keep her existing car another year until the car choice improved. Anyway - she got lucky as all of a sudden the M3 appeared on the available car list, nicely coinciding with the BIK change.

 

[Roy W.]

...a bit like putting a solar Panel on a Saturn 5...

You should be careful, Elon might pinch your revolutionary idea for his new rockets

 

[NorfolkMustard]

That’s good. Can’t wait until the September figures come out!

Tesla will be dwarfed by the September surge though I think. Unless Tesla can deliver 4 times the cars in September compared to August, they'll be way off the top 10

 

[Yev000]

Model 3 deliveries started around 8th. That's 20 days not including Sundays and bank holidays. An average of 100/day

That's actually pretty poor. This number also includes S and X.

Considering Heathrow did 100 on some days by itself. And would go some way to explain why a lot have not been delivered.

If we factor in 5 extra delivery days in September. We can expect 2500 deliveries. And there are over 7000 orders.

1 ship can deliver 3500 and we had what, 3 ships arrive in August?

 

[Fullerene]

Does this mean we have some dark matter missing M3s? Feels like the numbers aren’t stacking up

 

[Yev000]

Does this mean we have some dark matter missing M3s? Feels like the numbers aren’t stacking up

Nah, I just think they are that low. When I was a Heathrow last week the place looked dead, they might have had 10 deliveries that day.

3 factors here.

1. UK delivery capacity is pretty poor, as is evident by non-existent customer support despite only 2k deliveries
2. LHD demand is still there, Norway registering 50-100 every day still.
3. Down under has RHD as well

They probably only shipped as much as they could uncomfortably deliver in the UK. Like appointments for the GP... And the logic probably is "We have 10k orders, we can do 2-3k a month and clear them by Christmas, so we don't get the - UK sales tanked - news articles"

And I even recon there is some of "lets do a few quick order-delivery times so we get a few people saying they got their car really fast"

 

[geneclean55]

Model 3 deliveries started around 8th. That's 20 days not including Sundays and bank holidays. An average of 100/day

That's actually pretty poor. This number also includes S and X.

Considering Heathrow did 100 on some days by itself. And would go some way to explain why a lot have not been delivered.

If we factor in 5 extra delivery days in September. We can expect 2500 deliveries. And there are over 7000 orders.

1 ship can deliver 3500 and we had what, 3 ships arrive in August?

But wasn't it mainly London that kicked off around the 8th. I thought the other locations started up later than that? Also not sure how realistic it is for these places to hit the ground running at full speed.

 

[geneclean55]

Setting up a new route from Philly, presumably to add to the pile of September deliveries suggests to me that September is balls to the wall time.

 

[NorfolkMustard]

But wasn't it mainly London that kicked off around the 8th. I thought the other locations started up later than that? Also not sure how realistic it is for these places to hit the ground running at full speed.

Agreed. it does seem that a number of the delivery centres are recently/especially rented for the purpose.

Heathrow, and Birmingham certainly

 

[NewbieT]

20 days @ 100 each day might suggest a delivery team moving about and spending 2 days per month in each of the 10 service centres?
If so, scalable if Tesla wanted to.

 

[Artiste]

1 ship can deliver 3500 and we had what, 3 ships arrive in August?

That will also include LHD cars for the European market. I don’t think anyone knows what proportion of the total are RHD.

 

[Yev000]

I don’t think anyone knows what proportion of the total are RHD.

3500 * 3 = 10500 (roughly) 2000 of which were sold RHD. Maybe they have 500 in transit and damaged, I personally think its something like 50.

So 20%-30% RHD load for August

 

[djgillett]

I'm fairly confident there's a bottle neck in Belgium slowing stuff down. My car, according to the contact my lease company uses, has been sat in Zeebrugge waiting for a truck to bring it over since before August 28th - it's still there, and won't arrive at Heathrow until September 11th... My delivery is then the 12th.

So that'll be nearly two weeks just...Sitting there. And I'm pretty confident they'll delay delivery again anyway.

 

[Yev000]

I'm fairly confident there's a bottle neck in Belgium

That's interesting and disappointing. Maybe there is hope for more deliveries in September if you have cars coming in from the east coast.

 

[m3gt2]

Model 3 deliveries started around 8th. That's 20 days not including Sundays and bank holidays. An average of 100/day

That's actually pretty poor. This number also includes S and X.

Considering Heathrow did 100 on some days by itself. And would go some way to explain why a lot have not been delivered.

If we factor in 5 extra delivery days in September. We can expect 2500 deliveries. And there are over 7000 orders.

1 ship can deliver 3500 and we had what, 3 ships arrive in August?

Where is it stated that they have 7000 orders to fulfil?

 

[Fullerene]

I'm fairly confident there's a bottle neck in Belgium slowing stuff down.

I can confirm definitely bottlenecks in Belgium, they're renowned for bottles of beer - alongside chips & mayo, public urination (belgium fountain boy), waffles & lashings of red tape.

Endured more project fear on the radio this morning, apparently there will be queues around the block at filling stations, I am sure this won't be the case; BP will have loads of Polar chargers in time for the surge for M3s