Tesla sells record number of cars but falls short of expectations

Fox news ^ | 10/02/2022 | Bradford Betz

[ChicagoConservative27]

Tesla’s Q3 sales of its cars and SUVs broke records as the company's factory in Shanghai got past pandemic-related supply chain issues but still fell far short of expectations

The electric vehicle and solar panel company said Sunday it sold 343,830 cars and SUVs in the third quarter, compared with the 254,695 deliveries it made from April through June.

[ChicagoConservative27]

But diaper brain is giving you a tax credit to buy one! (S)

[SamAdams76]

I'm seeing them more and more on the roads these days. They have the "T" looking logo on the back of them. That's how you can tell.

[xp38]

Their truck is taking forever to arrive.

[GaltAdonis]

And if you see a vehicle that looks like this one - that's a give-away also -

[dangus]

Way to make 35% QoQ sales growth sound disappointing.

[Dick Bachert]

Please share this one with everyone. Next to shutting down the food supply, this is their OTHER BIG SCAM! VOTE DEMOCRAT!
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THE COMING GREEN ELECTRICITY NIGHTMARE!
An excerpt for your consideration:
To cite just one example, just those 2,500 wind turbines for New York electricity (30,000 megawatts) would require nearly 110,000 tons of copper – which would require mining, crushing, processing, and refining 25 million tons of copper ore ... after removing some 40 million tons of overlying rock to reach the ore bodies. Multiply that times 50 states – and the entire world – plus transmission lines.
How many processing plants and factories would be needed? How much fossil fuel power to run those massive operations? How many thousands of square miles of toxic waste pits all over the world are under zero to minimal environmental standards, workplace safety standards, and child and slave labor rules?
How many dead birds, bats, and endangered and other species would be killed off all across the USA and world – from mineral extraction activities, wind turbine blades, solar panels blanketing thousands of square miles of wildlife habitats, and transmission lines impacting still more land?

https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2022/10/02/the-coming-green-electricity-nightmare-n2613860?recip=731073

[Fresh Wind]

Their truck is taking forever to arrive.

Thank goodness. It's the ugliest vehicle ever.

[dangus]

In a given year, there are about 200,000 vehicle fires. In the past month, 34 of them were Teslas, being associated with 7 deaths. In every case, there was a high-velocity crash, so I don’t know that a single one of them was caused by any propensity of Teslas to catch fires or have more serious fires when they do ignite.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-fires/
https://www.tesla-fire.com/

[NWFree]

I’m sure with forced government mandates and forced destruction of their competition Tesla will somehow manage do better

[moovova]

Kids forced to work in cobalt mining operations hit the hardest...

[dangus]

>> would require nearly 110,000 tons of copper <<

OH NO! WE’RE DOOMED!!! Hmmm... I wonder how many times more copper that is than the current annual consumption?

>> The demand for the base metal copper amounted to a global total of 23.5 million metric tons in 2020, a slight decrease from 2019. <<

Oh, 0.4%. Your source is having a fit about a 0.4% in the global consumption of copper.

[POWG]

Tesla has a corporate goal to eliminate cobalt from their batteries. More than half of Tesla cars now use Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries. These batteries contain no cobalt all.

[dsrtsage]

Tesla girls are much more fun and do not spontaneously combust

[GaltAdonis]

The problem is that EV fires are extremely hard to put out.
It's the dang lithium ion batteries.

[nascarnation]

It will require a lot of investments in firefighting equipment.
Also the insurance rates will make evs even more expensive.

[Quickgun]

Electric and/or dual power vehicles are probably a very good fit for a large segment of the population. But they aren’t for me, because I don’t put enough miles on one over a 10 year period to justify an expensive battery replacement. And I’m a rural dweller that needs a truck. Of course I don’t believe in looneys wanting to mandate them. Let the people decide for themselves...

[dangus]

Yeah, I know. It’s a problem. A very, very, very, very, very rare problem, but a problem. Not something to dismiss the entire technology over.

[GaltAdonis]

"... a lot of investments in firefighting equipment."

.

I read on here a few days ago that in Europe they have some sort
machine that picks the things up while still burning and dunks
them completely in a huge tank of water.

But where is a huge tank of water when you need one, right?
Or the fire-proof 'picker-upper' for that matter...

[GaltAdonis]

I'm not "dismiss(ing)" the entire technology" -

I'm merely pointing out what I feel are significant
problems to be addressed before stupid bureaucrats mandate
the things - and we have a situation where we have an
'incineration memorial' site on every third street corner.

[isthisnickcool]

I drove a new Model 3 one of my buddies bought last week. It is a technological marvel, an amazing piece of work. The thing was very quick but drove very heavy. I would not buy one - period. A 911 is much more fun than an electric razor on wheels.