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General Motors CEO Mary Barra outlined an ambitious plan for her company to sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. than Tesla by the middle of this decade.
apnews.com
TL: DR
You led Mary...You led
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I have an epiphany that actually Mary leads, in 2025. Here's the math:
2022 H1 (
Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable):
GM 1,087,615 -17.8% from 2021
Tesla 228,700 +47.4% from 2021, ~98% from Fremont factory
2025:
GM: 1.5 million
GM has the excuse of chip shortage for sales decline since 2020, but the decline started at least from 2016, per Statista (graph below). By this time of next year, it will be clear that the decline continues and its EVs sales won't be able to reverse that
Tesla: >0.5 million from Fremont, 1 million from Giga Texas, >1.5 million total. Giga Shanghai will easily produce more than 1 million next year, in its 4th year of production; from the scale of Giga Texas and what's already completed, Giga Texas will at least match that by year 4 (2025), and majority of its production will be sold domestically, as Giga Shanghai takes care of China and most of Asia and Giga Berlin takes care of Europe, etc.
So there you have it: in 2025, Tesla sales more than GM in the US, EVs or not. Remember: Mary leads = Tesla sales more than GM,
Q.E.D.
Bonus: when that day arrives (Tesla becomes unequivocally #1 automaker in production and sales and every meaningful metric), $TSLA will be added to the symbolic, meaningless Dow Jones Industrial Average.