I know I can’t go five minutes on the road without seeing a Model Y, but I had no clue they made up 95% of Tesla’s production.
I mostly see Model 3s but do see some Model Ys.
Which one is the model y is that the smaller hatchback one?
I wouldn’t say there’s anything small about them, but they’re the ones with the hatch
Less massive than the huge one is probably a better way to put it tbh
I think I’ve maybe seen two Teslas that weren’t Model Ys in the wild. Granted, I don’t live in a big city, but still, there are plenty of Model Ys I see driving around.
I live in the LA area and saw 3 of those stupid cyber trucks last week. I see a lot of 3s, the occasional X and S too. But the 3 and Y are everywhere, almost all are in white only. They’re almost as ubiquitous as the Civic and Carolla were in the 90s and early 00s.
White seems to be very popular. My Prius was white, but I didn’t get to choose the color. It was the only one available in my price range on the lot and my previous car totally died on me when an asshole mechanic fucked it up, so I didn’t have a choice.
I hate it. It looks dirty all the time.
White is currently the color that you don’t pay extra for. When I bought mine back in 2019, black was the “free” color.
Ugh, that sucks. Who knows how far your Prius could have gone otherwise.
I was looking at a 3 when it was first announced, but I’m driving my Prius till it dies. Sucks Toyota supported the election deniers.
No, sorry about the misunderstanding. The car before the Prius died. I replaced it with the Prius. It’s doing fine.
No CarPlay still.
Sad.
According to the data in the article, Tesla has a 1.5% YoY Q1 delivery growth. Hardly disastrous to sell more cars this quarter than in the same quarter last year.422,875 in Q1 2023433,371 in Q1 2024Edit: I was corrected that in fact deliveries were down 8.5% YoY. That does seem disastrous, particularly since they are banking on growth.
Production out pacing demand is a bad sign. Tesla has burned through all the early adopters (who are generally more forgiving) and they way more competition. They need to go after the early majority population.
Also, Elon is no longer charming. Like it or not it matters. No one can name a CEO of another car company so there less a 1:1 correlation between Elon alienating people and a brand.
And regarding the “hardly disastrous” metric, it only matters versus your competition because is measures relative performance to what was available. Taken on its own is meaningless.
He was never fucking charming…
I mean, granted for sure he’s gotten worse, but I don’t trust people who gave him a pass before the past couple of years.
Yeah, but they’ve apparently produced ~50k more than delivered. How much does it cost them to store those extra? How much have they invested in those and not quickly recouped their manufacturing cost? So they basically have around 20% of their production numbers just sitting unsold? Those numbers anyway you cut it are very, very bad.
That’s also just the most recent quarter. They’ve been “building inventory” for the past couple of years now and it’s a lot closer to 120k cars unaccounted for at this point.
This article is about the dropping analyst predictions, leading up to the actual announcement from Tesla.
The official announcement a few hours after the article was 386,810, significantly lower than even the low expectations.
Thank you for the correction. That is certainly a big deal, particularly since they are banking on growth as they aren’t yet a huge part of the pie. I amended my above post with your correction.
Yuck. I knew Tesla wasn’t going to be immune to the EV slowdown happening everywhere…but still yuck. And I think there’s a recession coming so alot of companies will be contracting this year…but still yuck.
Well, there’s also the Musk of it all to consider. Plenty of EVs around now that don’t directly support that jackass.
