It just shows that rich people cam afford luxury toys.
High rollin’ libs with more money than brains.
Ping.
The pipe dream of an electric car dies hard among the wealthy, eco-loonies of the Hard Left.
Total BS. When’s the last time anybody saw a Tesla driving down the street? Anyone? Bueller, Bueller? I didn’t think so. You would think that with 8% of the market you’d see one at least occasionally instead of virtually n e v e r!
On the other end of the scale let’s ask McAulliffe how many greentech cars his (formerly on the board) company actually sold? Answer almost as many as Tesla.
A friend of mine ordered a Tesla about six months ago with, at the time, an expected delivery date of July. I haven’t talked to him in a couple of months so I don’t know it he got it yet. I think he paid $107k for it.
No, he is not a liberal but a hard working, small businessman who is a Conservative Republican.
I don’t know Tesla’s politics, but I for one like the idea of electric cars because I think being grid independent is a good idea. Yes, I know that means you need a way to generate electricity, but that is easier to do than make your own fuel (even though there are survivalists who make their own biodiesel).
I am not against using oil for fuel. I don’t believe man-made global warming is real; and even if it was it would be foolish to enact policies that destroy the economy of the world so we can just keep the temparature from changing a degree. Life on our planet has survived a great deal of climate change and will continue to do so. Nor do I believe in peak oil because even if oil resources ever get depleted the law of supply and demand will result in oil continuing to flow.
An attractive and well-performing electric vehicle for under $30k is a great idea. I wish they also had a one ton or three-quarter ton pickup.
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I am a lifelong entrepreneur with no college education and three successful businesses. In spite of my short comings (and I have many!) I can clearly see that our world is entirely solar powered. If you don’t believe it then imagine our world without the sun. Pretty simple and basic. So we have a clear choice, to create ways to not use any oil which is a finite supply or use the sun which will last as long as the planet has human beings on it. With a $30k solar charging system at my house I can forever charge my Tesla S and supply my home with all the power I will ever need. A total of $120k investment and the coolest car currently on the planet. Every comment here is a head in the sand mentality. Consider all the things we blow money on each year. Including the house you currently live in! Could you get by living in a house that is worth $100k less? And don’t ignore the lower cost of ownership that comes with the Tesla. Forgo a few things here and there and fund your freedom from the Middle East, complicated repairs on internal combustion vehicles, and your local dominating power company. Oh yeah, I am a 30 year car guy. Here is my challenge to you, watch 5 YouTube videos a day for one week about Tesla or Elon Musk and tell me you feel the same. The guy is worth over $5 billion and could just sit back and never put any of his fortune at risk, thankfully for all of us he doesn’t do that! Lastly, most all of these negative comments were eerily familiar to arguments against the modern car when the horse was the preferred method. It’s coming, like it or not.
Nowhere in the article is the term "US luxury market" defined. I mean, that's sort of important.
This statistic smells ugly.