Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

[sabinstargem@lemmy.today]

I am hoping these end up as ICE vehicles.

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

Fun fact, while shopping for a car in 2022, we looked at a used 2021 bmw x5. I wondered what they replaced it with and the salesman said "oh, he traded it in for a 2022 x5 of the exact same trim". They know him well because every year he comes in and trades in to make sure he is never driving "last year's model".

Particularly stupid because that was the year of shortages where they actually made the new model worse by removing features they couldn't get supply for, other than removing features, the new car was unchanged from prior year.

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

I wonder how common this is for evs in general. My vehicle has only gone in once for a recall on the windshield wiper motors, nothing else gone wrong.

The last car I had got off that brand needed quite a few repairs, so it's remarkably refreshing to have a car that is just working along.

EVs just seen to be an easier thing to make reliable. Temperatures run much lower, fewer fluids in play, not having to deal with thousands of little explosions every minute...

The battery seems to draw all the headache, but even then reports suggest that conservative battery management systems have made those more reliable than people thought they would be. Probably thanks to the mandatory 100k warranty on batteries, the vendors took it seriously.

[shawn1122@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah it's not just Indians:

In 2025:

According to the analysis, Tesla achieved loyalty rates of 63.6% among Asian households and 61.9% among Hispanic households. These figures exceeded national averages.

Favorability / loyalty have dropped across all groups over the past several years.

[shawn1122@sh.itjust.works]

Tesla has 35% market share in Norway.

France saw an increase in Tesla registrations by 203% year over year.

Sweden had a 144% increase in registrations. Denmark had a 96% increase.

In the US, the core demographic remains white male, ~48 years old, with a household income exceeding $140,000, particularly in conservative states (Texas/Florida).

Part of the problem is that competition is still lacking in many ways especially when it comes to charging infrastructure.

[neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works]

Right into the ocean

[onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world]

The competition is not lacking at all if you've been paying attention. And literally every EV brand can use Tesla chargers now.

[neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, I hate trump, but the Dems fucked this one up. Also like they've fucked the elections that led to trump.

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

I think that’s external combustion, but I get your point

[sleeplesscitylights@programming.dev]

And they are ugly too, 0 appeal.

[shawn1122@sh.itjust.works]

Depends how much the average consumer is paying attention. Many probably don't know that every EV can use the Tesla chargers now.

The competition here is certainly constrained. Most car manufacturers are making less EVs due to decreasing overall demand and expirarion of federal EV tax credits.

The real competition is on the other side of the Pacific. Europe and Canada have accepted that on some level while the US continues to artificially prop up its EV market ex-China.

There are legitimate concerns don't get me wrong. But the US won't be able to hide from a more dynamic and competitive product forever.

[bss03@infosec.pub]

I thought that was just the Cybertruck, which yes, I wouldn't drive even if someone gave me one. I'd flip it and buy something else.

I think both the sedan and roadster are okay electric cars, and I think they have enough range I could use them to reduce the amount of gas I burn in my Volt for longer trips.

But, I haven't really been paying attention to Tesla recently, and Elmu has certainly been looking horrible to me.

[fatvegan@leminal.space]

It's funny how that wasn't really a problem until they found that bond underwater car in a garage recorded by a tesla and it belonged to nazi musk.

[scarabic@lemmy.world]

And if you own one from before, the only responsible thing to do is sell it on the used market to reduce demand for their new cars. You might not get the price you want but come on. You could afford a Tesla; I’m not crying for your pocketbook.

[itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world]

Thats after they got spacex to buy a large number of them.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Musk is much more of an Edison than a Tesla. If he'd been honest he would have named his cars Edison. Then, the cool rebadge could have been Tesla. But, even he was smart enough to realize what an asshole Edison was, even if he didn't recognize the Edison in himself.

[eximius@lemmy.world]

Isn't that like 50k x 20k$ (rough costs estimate) = 1B$ of slowly realizing losses?

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Destroys them all because unprofitable to sell, whines about major loss, demands government bailout.

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

The problem is the door locks are electric, so if the car loses low voltage power, the buttons to open the doors no longer work. Worse yet, the Model 3 only has emergency physical latches in the front seats, so good luck in the back, kids.

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

To be fair, we will have full self driving by the end of the year, according to Elon every single year for the last decade.