What States Are Scooping Up The Tesla Model 3?

California is a sanctuary state it gives welfare to all whether it can afford it or not.

CA has a massive surplus this year, despite the handouts (most of which do not go to the rich).

That would be Washington DC where a $1.5T tax cut was given to the rich and US corporations. Paid for with debt and no offset cuts to the budget. Nice. :)

To be clear San Jose Driver the $30 billion surplus is a projection for fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. More than offsetting it is an unfunded pension liability between $110-$139 billion depending on the source.

Hmmm...wasn’t California also the biggest market for the Prius, and on another note the #1 luxury make Benz sales more there than any other state, not to mention the Civic happens to be the most driven car there...

I’m quite interested to see if Cali’s trendsetting skills rubs off on the rest of the global market for Tesla as it’s done for the others

Moving beyond California is going to be a real challenge for the Model 3 as a car for the masses. It would be interesting to see a plot of where within these states these registrations are, as well as the average household income of those regions. If it is only selling to the upper 15% to 20% income brackets that's a problem.

The Model 3 ASP was around $60K by end of Q3 (probably slightly lower now after the release of the cheaper Medium Range version). I would be worried if the bottom 20% bracket buys the Model 3 instead of the top 20%. Remember the Bush Junior era when everyone could buy a home with or without real income ?

Any financial analyst will tell you that "sales concentration" (i.e the notion that a large portion of sales (!!!!! 49.3% !!!!) come from one customer or region.

That basically means that "all their eggs are in one basket" and that success will likely be fleeting and fragile.

Once the tipping point is reached with Tesla sentiments, people are going to be shocked about how fast the shine comes off the Tesla (orange-peeled) paint.

CA is an early adopter when it comes to tech products, plus Tesla is headquartered here. Likely we'll always have the highest concentration of Tesla's, but with high consumer satisfaction you'll see more and more throughout the country. It's getting a little ridiculous in Silicon Valley where you can't look in any direction without seeing at least a couple Teslas.

I hope California is upgrading its electric grid. If these sales numbers continue the politicians in California are quickly going to have a problem on their hands.

17% of CA's grid is now solar and that will probably break 20% this year. In fact, they had to dump electricity for a few days in the summer because the grid couldn't handle the overproduction of electricity.

Also CA will spend billions this year on grid storage so that the extra juice doesn't have to be dumped in the future. That will also expand capacity significantly without needing extra plants.

Take a quick tour of Google map with satellite view of California landscape and find out for yourself how popular rooftop PV is, especially in newer developments. My solar total cost is $25K ($17.5K net cost after incentives) and provides enough electricity for a large home plus 2 EVs. It takes less than 7 years to recoup my PV investments and I'll be tapping the sun for free for the next 30+ years.

<<<< “I’ll be tapping the sun for free for the next 30+ years” >>>> said the naive person that actually believed that the Government isn’t going to find other areas to tax to recoup the lost revenue from your Free electricity.

@EVisNow You bought your solar panels? You're really unintelligent. Anyone with a brain lets the solar company own the panels. They have to maintain them and you pay for the electricity. FAR LESS MONEY OUT OF POCKET. Buying solar panels means you're buying technology that quickly will be outdated, but hey, you're locked in.

@MD: if you have money, paying for it is a better option. other wise you will be paying half the bill for ever. which means as the electric company raises rates, your part of payment also goes up down the road.
malba2367's ROI is 7 years, after which he has 20+ years of free electricity.

Actually it isn't. It does NOT pencil out. Not even remotely. The #1 reason is that the solar panels will not last as long as a typical financing contract and in the California environmental conditions, 10 years is the shelf life. Thus when your 10-year-old panels have degraded you're still paying on them another two decades, but you have to replace them to get your electricity production back. We studied it intently for the business applications in out portfolio and it is money far ahead NOT buying the panels.

I am surprised at some states that made the list (VA, NJ, GA) and some that didn't (OR, CO, MD), considering their EV history and charging infrastructure deployments.