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Comment by davedx | Hacker News Reader

"Demand is not there"

"25,913% Growth In Tesla Sales In 6 Years"

I don't know how people reconcile these kinds of statements. Unless they're arguing that Q1 2019 is an inflection point and sales will taper off for the foreseeable future?

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/04/25913-growth-in-tesla-s...

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The two assertions may not be in conflict. There may not be demand for EVs that are rehashes of ICE designs (and not just in “looks” but also in engineering compromises made to retrofit EV to a body originally intended for an ICE). Also, there may truly not be sufficient demand for EV in the bread and butter market segments traditional “mature” automakers address (and corporate/union socio-political factors might stifle an internally created Tesla, similar to what happened to Saturn in GM).

To put things into perspective: Despite 26000% growth... Tesla still has less than 1% of the global auto market.

Isn't that basically what happened? [0]

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/343787/tesla-sales-down-for-q1-20...

No. You cite an article that falsely compares sales and delivery numbers. It's deliveries on already sold cars that slowed.

If it was, it isn't at all clear from the data. Model S and Model X slowed dramatically, and that part might be indicative of a real problem with those two models. Model 3, OTOH, appears to be growing steadily right now.

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