63,000 People Have Canceled Their Tesla Model 3 Orders

MSN/ Fortune ^

[SMGFan]

During a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that about 63,000 people have canceled their Tesla Model 3 orders over the past year.

Total orders for the vehicle have fallen from 518,000 to 455,000, Musk said, according to Business Insider. But the drop in orders doesn’t hurt Tesla too much: The electric-car company has averaged about 1,800 new Model 3 reservations per day since last Friday.

[Dr. Sivana]

People tend to figure out what is best for them and I suspect there are not enough Volt liberals to make Tesla a long term success.

Here in southern Georgia it is a popular secondary car for wealthy folks those who like the performance, not necessarily liberals. For all the limitations of electric motors for a primary driver (and their expense), they ARE nice off the line. We have several corporate HQs here, (e.g. TSYS, AFLAC,) and as a result we see a LOT of very impractical cars (Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Porsches, etc.). The mid-level guys get souped up Challengers, Camaros and custom Corvettes.

[Tucker39]

Agreed. More people are realizing that besides the battery mess; if they follow the trail of delivery of the electricity that charges their batteries back to its source, they discover that in many cases, their wonderful “green” cars are actually powered by coal.

[V_TWIN]

“they discover that in many cases, their wonderful “green” cars are actually powered by coal”

Yep, that’s why I like hydrogen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdL2YS5dCQ

[Ben Ficklin]

I'm no expert but most of the recharging will be done at night. This is certainly why Texas is offering an electric car subsidy on top of the federal subsidy. There is an excess wind power at night and Texas has the same problem as California and Germany.

As for the 60kwh versus the 85 kwh, even with the $10,000 upcharge for the 85kwh, it is the cheapest if you calculate as miles of range per dollar of cost.

I'm curious, do you live in a home with 110 power? If you have only 110 you can buy 110 wall units to air condition your home but if you want Central you need to bring in more service. I have a hard time seeing people who live in a 110 home as being potential Tesla buyers

[Nothingburger]

I find it difficult to take seriously any CEO named after an after-shave lotion.

[palmer]

In the building where I work you can charge your electric car for free. The building managers get "green" brownie points for doing that, they jack up the rent, and companies can virtue-signal by paying extra rent. (I'm not sure about my employer because the green crap started long after we moved there).

I know one liberal with an electric car who parks there, but surprisingly he only charges at home. He's somewhat of a rarity, a non-hypocrite. The rest are in it for the subsidies and the virtue of ignoring the environment-destroying lithium and rare earth mining practices. Tesla in particular is very damaging to the environment preferring zero to 60 in 2.3 seconds than practical functionality.

[V_TWIN]

Regardless of power supply, where’s it coming from again? :)

[Ben Ficklin]

I don’t understand question.

[V_TWIN]

All that electricity is coming from somewhere right? Where I live it originates at a COAl fired generating plant.

[SkyDancer]

Places running out of plug-ins in streets and gas stations, etc. So what happens when four or five show up with only two plug-ins available and it’s a several hour charge; or you’re in a city and just about to run out of a charge and you spot a connection point only to find out it was vandalized and you’re in a shaky neighborhood.

[Fresh Wind]

...they discover that in many cases, their wonderful “green” cars are actually powered by coal.

Not all of them. Some are powered by < gasp! > nuclear reactors!

[Ben Ficklin]

That depends on where you live.

The price of all this stuff keeps falling. Solar panels, wind turbines, lithium batteries.

There are still a few coal power plants Texas but they are all losing money and cant compete with Nat gas and renewables. They will be gone in a few years. In Texas and California the price of electricity is tied to the price of nat gas.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Blech...Most if not all modern cars have the same look, coupled with enough computer tech to equip an alien spaceship.

Classic American Muscle beats it every time, but those old beauties had their own problems of course.

[minnesota_bound]

The car price is one thing but the cost of the extension cord is another!

[Revolutionary]

They blew the nose. It looks more like a fish face. Good selling cars usually have good face looking attributes.

[Tucker39]

Yep. I have no problem with either; but THEY do.

[Afterguard]

Those people suddenly realized that the Tesla was nothing more than a coal-powered car. Coulda’ bought one of those in the 1910’s.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***All the “interesting parts” were airbrushed out ***

I saw a “collector’s magazine” on the first Streakers like that. What a joke.

[V_TWIN]

electricity is cheap here (NE Fla.) for now at least.

[ctdonath2]

There’s more to a car purchase than just gas savings.
If you haven’t at least tried what you’re railing against, you’re missing the point.
The driving performance is excellent. Amazing acceleration, great traction control, instant response (no shifting delays), and the silence is deafening.
Safety is big. Among other things, crumple zones are huge (having almost nothing resembling an engine block).
Attention to detail costs money.

Bashing Teslas for not being the perfectly cheapest option is stupid.