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Comment by samfisher83 | Hacker News Reader

In the last 4 quarters Tesla has delivered 271,521 model 3s. That would make it about the 12th best selling car in america. That is about as many escapes ford has sold. That is pretty phenomenal.

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Edit: Didn't realize they were including Q4 2018

That's Tesla's total sales worldwide. About 50k of those sales are Model S/X. Their total sales for Model 3 in the US are at 114,500 for the year. Source: https://insideevs.com/news/373812/ev-sales-scorecard-septemb...

Still great numbers but just wanted to be accurate.

I am using the last 4q.

You can use the data from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3#Deliveries

and here:

https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesl...

Ah my mistake, I didn't realize you were including Q4 2018 :) Still think it's a bit of an unfair comparison to compare Tesla's worldwide sales to other car makers' US sales.

Edit: Just realized the Model 3 actually is the 12th best selling vehicle in the US for September! 20th best selling vehicle in the US in Q3 :) Source: http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/us-vehicle-sales-figures-by-mod...

With much higher ASP and margins it truly is something to consider.

Tesla doesn’t calculate margins the same way other manufacturers do. Take with a grain of salt.

If you mean GAAP v non-GAAP, almost all manufactures release both numbers as does Tesla. Yes, 19% and 15% are different numbers - they're also both very non-negative numbers. This is posted ad nauseam and is absolutely untrue.

No, there's a common "short" theory that Tesla somehow reports GAAP gross margins in a way that is radically different from the rest of the industry. I've never seen any evidence that had any merit for this claim.

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