Seems plausible. Most of that will be Tesla, of course, but there are a lot of good alternatives showing up now.
You mean there is not a huge lack of demand, as proclaimed by everyone who makes cars nobody wants?
I could only imagine if Tesla would have made the cybertruck something more normal. Whether the truck ends up being good or bad the style can turn off a lot of buyers that they may have potentially had. I think Tesla missed an opportunity for an even bigger blow to the legacy brands.
Well if we do, I’m happy to have done my (0.0001%) part!
I’m in with my 0.0002% for '23
So is the EV market crashing or thriving? Can someone get these dipshit journo’s on the same page? These publications have been changing direction like a windsock.
It’s Jalopnik. There’s no journalists, just clickbait.
Tesla is pretty much carrying the EV sales.
Other car brands’ EV sales are still marred by shitty salesmen dealership tactics like markup adjustments and unsolicited add-ons.
BYD is another one too apparently leading EV sales but I’m not too familiar with them.
Saw a Chevy Bolt near me for 42k on a car lot.
Model 3 RWD is currently $38,990.
Would never get the Bolt, faulty batteries which have resulted in fires.
Overall car sales are about to be slowing, but they’re only mentioning pressure on EV’s (that are still growing, but not quite as much as they hoped) and intentionally ignoring ICE vehicles (that are definitely slowing since so many people have negative equity in their overpriced new and used cars they bought in the last couple years).
If you’re referring to the US market specifically it’s neither crashing nor thriving. It’s growing but very slowly. Each major market is behaving very differently so there’s no one summary you can make for the global market.
Here’s extensive charts for you of the relevant markets.
It’s a short article, but it does nicely sum up a couple of points.
Sales are up and up, but what’s putting the hurt on car makers is the number of new models they’re launch into the market. Those sales are being sliced thinly, which means each model (or shared platform, even) is having difficulty racking up enough sales to get economies-of-scale and bring costs down. And if the models your company puts out aren’t attractive and don’t compete well against (let’s be honest) Tesla, then. . . Yeah. That’s a rough spot to be in.
Alright people let’s buy all the cars!
I get the sense this might be correct. I see so many EV’s now on the street and parked in Costco and Sams Club parking lots.
I wish Costco wasn’t so egregiously early in their EV charging roll out. If they unrolled it today I’m sure they’d see great utilization. I’d love to charge there now that the cheap gas is irrelevant to me.
Yup, NO DEMAND
1M cars is like 1 month worth of US car sales, or 1/12ish of yearly sales, right?
but nobody is buying EVs… how is this possible? /s