Am I the only one freaking out about the fact that Tesla has had to lower the price twice since the start of the year? I really thought, at least in Q1, that Tesla would be able to sell out 6000 to 7000 per week at $46,000 and up in the face of the large European and Chinese backlogs.
How many times does it need to be pointed out that they have a significantly higher margin on US sales than they do on European sales,
even after the price cut, for any given model? E.g.: even
after the price cut, an AWD sold in the US has something like a 3-4% higher margin than one sold in Europe (check the math for yourself). So unless you think that they can keep shipping only loaded-up Ps to Europe indefinitely,
why shouldn't they encourage more of their higher-margin US sales?
Their production costs are falling. Have been falling. Will be falling. All conjugations are correct and applicable. Getting production costs down - and thus prices down - is the goal. So that the total addressable market will be larger.
This is the whole bloody point.
Because a gas or diesel vehicle isn’t prone to range loss in the same conditions. It just continues to putter at 75mph, into headwinds and gets 95mpg.
Yeah, I’m tired of the ridiculous attention this is getting as if ICE’s aren’t also affected. Nobody talks about it because hardly anybody even knows what their gas tank mileage is.
Well put. There was this ridiculous article the other day from a guy who described freezing inside his EV in the winter stuck in traffic, with the heater shut off, trying to conserve range, like a scene out of Apollo 13. Why?
Because he set off on a freezing-cold day with only 50km/30mi range remaining. Aka, for a gas car: "
I left home with the tank so low that the gas light was on." What was his excuse for doing something so ridiculous? Well, he'd forgotten to charge - aka, "
I forgot to get gas the other night." So does he stop at a charger partway through his trip, after the battery has heated up (aka,
"stop at a gas station"), just long enough to add another 10-20km? No, of course he does not.
What exactly do people expect? If that had been a gas car he would have been shutting off his idling engine in traffic to save gas, and
still would have been freezing cold. It reminds me of all of the
"ZOMG what if I had been driving an EV?" concern trolling back when Hurricane Maria hit Florida, when in reality Tesla owners had a breeze of the evacuation, with no problems, while it was gasoline car drivers who struggled to get fuel, were shutting off their cars (and thus AC, on dangerously hot days), and some were even pushing their cars when stuck in traffic to conserve those last drops.
