The Tesla Model 3 Is One Of The Top 10 Best Selling Sedans — Without The Base $35k Model

The most expensive versions of the Model 3 are currently the most popular, with an average selling price approaching $60,000. Amazing!

And every one of them underscores how disreputable Tesla is for not fulfilling the orders of people who put in their deposits. Bait and switch.

15% gross margin, once they make enough to pass fixed costs it will be contributing quite a bit of profit.

I'm amazed at the ignorance of some Tesla boosters. The "sales data" for last month did NOT represent Model 3 sales at all - it represented Model 3 builds and deliveries, for buyers who bought the car months and , more likely , years ago. No one, especially autospies, has a clue as to how many Model 3 cars were actually sold last month and Tesla is not saying - they hide any negative data while trumpeting any positive data, which means the sales last monoth were not great, which is also indicated by the fact that Tesla has changed all the rules and is selling to anyone willing to fork over $50,000 plus. Obviously the people still on Tesla's waiting list are not willing to pay $50,000 plus for a car they put down a deposit on that was to cost $35,000, AND have a $7500 tax credit. Tesla obviously cannot sell a $35,000 Model 3 and make a profit. And
Tesla is operating in a semi monopolistic environment, and has yet to dface superior vehicles like the Jaguar I Pace, the Audi e-tron and, especially the Porsche Taycan or Polestar 2, a car which the Model 3, with its $7500 price
disadvantage , cannot compete against, at least not in Tesla's main sales area, the U.S. There are over 250 electric car coming from professional automakers
over the next several years, and already Tesla is falling behind in charging technology and driving ranges, and practicality and build quality and attractiveness. Tesla Motors will face obstacles which it cannot surmount - the days of operating a monopoly are fading away, and car buyers will discover that the qualities that folks like about the Tesla cars are qualities possessed by every electric car.

Sorry but I think if Tesla never existed we would be getting swamped with a bunch of cardboard e-econoboxes with 8 second 0-60 times. Love him or hate him, Musk changed the industry by associating electric with high performance. Actually maybe that's why car people hate him, lol.

Tesla falling behind? Give me a break. Nobody has even PROPOSED in CONCEPT form EVs with better range. Porsche is talking about 350v charging, and if Tesla is saying it will likely frag the battery, I think it will probably frag the battery. If you look at Tesla sales vs. the rest of the industry, it is traditional automakers that are falling behind. At least VW and Jag are trying. Where are the rest of the US automakers?

and model 3 is out selling many SUVs. Imagine what the model Y will do.

While I still don't know exactly what to make of these numbers, I do know that Musk hasn't learned his lesson yet and risks alienating capital markets that he will need to bring his company forward. Yesterday on twitter he made fun of the SEC and likely without his lawyers permission which is required under the settlement. It may be fun for him but any future missteps will be dealt with more harshly as a result and sources of capital will shy away, concerned about image and consequences. Whomever becomes the Tesla chairman has an unenviable job.

His latest move was summed up by some in the finance community as "juvenile and narcissistic". One of his largest investors tweeted him with "WTF" and suggested that in the future he call that person and vent and not tweet. Amazing!

Agree with the investor.