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The article isn't fretting about a lack of demand. Clearly the demand is there. Tesla just absolutely sucks at delivering. I'm going to buy a new car this weekend, and if I could actually get a Tesla Model 3, I would. But I need a car, and I'm not getting in line and waiting a year on the off chance that they figure out how to actually manufacture something.

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In May 2018 in US (https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/):

Tesla doubled the sales of Model 3 from LAST MONTH, maintaining their position as US best selling fully electric car.

Second and third best selling fully electric car is Model S and Model X.

Fourth best selling fully electric car, Chevy Bolt, had the worst monthly sales, at less than 1/5th of Model 3 sales. Then there's Nissan Leaf and Fiat 500e.

"sucks at delivering" is apparently relative and Tesla is being measured by a stick from a different planet.

You're not being consistent, and revealing your anti-Tesla bias. They have figured out to manufacture the Model 3, they deliver new serial numbers of that car every day of the week. And like I usually say in my replies in Tesla threads, it's really something to be grateful for that America is still a place where a car company can be built, and we should all share a collective pride towards those who have carved out the future for young Americans and young people around the world. I understand that you won't be buying a Tesla this weekend because they are not available but I really feel that the anti-Tesla bias is very much misplaced and resentful towards one of the greatest blessings of the 21st century.

> it's really something to be grateful for that America is still a place where a car company can be built

we should be proud we can manage to do something we've already been doing for 100 years?

Yes, we should indeed be proud that we can still do it over from scratch with new technology, since the past fifty years implied pretty strongly that we actually couldn't anymore, and certainly I don't see new car companies springing up anywhere else besides China.

What's more, by that clever little formulation of yours, you can cynically dismiss so many things of value. Why be proud of anything anyone does here unless you've never seen anything like it before on the face of this earth, right?

I think he's referring to the fact that most of the manufacturing once done in the US has been off-shored to China etc.

Why pay X for something if you can get it for X/3?

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