Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts, sending its shares down 2.4% in early trading.
Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts, sending its shares down 2.4% in early trading.
The electric-vehicle maker handed over 435,059 vehicles in the three months to Sept. 30, down nearly 7% from the preceding quarter, but said its target to deliver 1.8 million vehicles this year remained unchanged.
An LSEG poll of eight analysts estimated deliveries of 459,949 vehicles, with the lowest at 442,000 and the highest at 511,405.
The electric vehicle market has seen a slowdown in the United States, although there are signs of growth, Canalys Research said in its report.
"While Tesla remains a dominant force in the US EV market for 2023, there is an increasing demand for a wider range of EV options to satisfy the growing consumer interest in electric vehicles," said Ashwin Amberkar, analyst at the market research firm.
The world's most valuable automaker produced 430,488 vehicles in the third quarter, compared with 479,700 in the second quarter and 365,923 a year earlier.
You are joking, surely? Their QA is terrible. Numerous documented cases of steering wheels coming off, loose trimmings inside the car or them just catching fire. Buying a tesla in 2023 is falling for marketing hype, especially considering all the alternatives from other manufacturers.
Every Tesla I've had the 'pleasure' of either driving or being a passenger in had massive panel gaps and issues with the interior. Not to mention the last Model S I drove broke down after going through a canyon. I don't dislike Tesla because of Musk, I dislike them because they have very poor QA for their price.
When did you buy your model Y? Near it's release, or relatively recently?
My two of my co workers had some early model 3s and they were awful fit and finish, not to mention the general "cheap car with leather" feel. Modern ones (a friend has one) should be fine, but it shouldn't take 5 years for QC issues to get under control. Hopefully the new 3 is like the new S and isn't a nightmare on launch.
Don't bother, everyone here just parrots the same circlejerks they saw on reddit and all the other social media. No one cares about actual owners opinions or facts or reality anymore, just the circlejerking.
Completely ignoring that any owners that don't "hate their purchase" get downvoted and insulted and any who do get blasted with upvotes instantly purely because it fits the circlejerk.
Oh no, downvotes! Those are surely much worse than a very expensive car that is super unreliable and has panel gaps from the factory line.
You're totally right, it's gotta be a circlejerk. Even review websites like Consumer Reports are joining in on the circlejerk.
It can't be that the product is bad or anything like that, they must just hate Tesla to hate Tesla!
Bud come on. You can't type comments like this and pretend half this shit isn't in bad faith.
You people don't all come out of the wood work when other car companies have problems. There were a couple of massive recalls over the last couple days and most people don't even know about them because they aren't about teslas.
If they were about teslas they'd be plastered over the front page of every social media site for weeks, and you know it.
Yes, because you liking your own car that doesn't have issues doesn't negate all the issues Tesla has. They have shit QA and build quality, literally spend 30 seconds on Google.
The irony is you people think it has to do with Musk, the main reason you bought it, it doesn't. The product is shit.
Lot of bad faith here. Tons of people like their car. It's absolutely a massive circlejerk. No one is claiming they're perfect. There is a concept you should check out called "nuance" that social media is destroying, maybe consider giving it a shot.
The last paragraph is just pure trolling garbage, not even going to bother.
I'm assuming at this point you're just getting off on trolling, but I urge you to actually look up what a circlejerk is. Some people can not like a car and it still doesn't look or present itself the way this circlejerk always does. The amount of goal post shifting, blatant misinformation, and lying that goes on in these discussions is insane but no one cares because.. It's a circlejerk.
Owner here, what they're saying is true (perhaps not the fire part, that's really overblown). Those parroting Tesla as the height of car engineering are blowing smoke out their ass.
Well, Polestars are made in China. Just because their brands aren't massive with marketing in the US doesn't mean they aren't good. BYD is by sheer numbers the largest producer of electric vehicles in the world. And they're regarded as quality and durable vehicles that most reviewers think will take the European market by storm soon since they just installed themselves there. The Seal is considered superior to the Tesla 3 and it's cheaper. Tesla actually pays to them to use their batteries in Asia. And they provide the platform for Toyota. Again, just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it's not true. Read the room, there's a reason you're being downvoted. And it's not Tesla or Elon hate, you just don't know enough about the EV market and said something false.
The X and S are also crap quality when compared to luxury cars in their price range. The build quality on a $80k+ Audi, BMW, or Mercedes is much higher than what you’ll get in a Tesla, and they don’t have those goofball gull wing doors that Elon insisted on and that are trash.
I was never a fan of Elon, but what turned me off from Tesla five years ago was build quality issues, not the fact that he’s a horrible person. That, and the more I learned about the company and its engineering and manufacturing, the less I trusted what they were shipping. You can learn a lot just talking to people in bars in Silicon Valley.