The Tesla Model S topped the US luxury sedan sales chart for the third quarter of 2016, with 9,156 units of the fully electric sedan sold. In second and third place is the BMW 7 Series and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class with 3,634 units and 3,138 units sold respectively – more Model S units were sold than the two German luxury models combined in that period, according to reports in the US.
This could be attributed to the Model S’ latest update to P100D guise in April, which brought with it updates including a revised Autopilot suite. The P100D gets its name from a 100 kWh battery pack, which increases its range to 613 km in the NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) cycle, or 507 km under the EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency) test.
Earlier, Tesla announced global delivery numbers for Q3 2016 and confirmed that it had delivered approximately 24,500 vehicles in that period, of which were 15,800 units of the Model S and 8,700 units of the Model X. “Our Q3 delivery count should be viewed as slightly conservative, as we only count a car as delivered if it is transferred to the customer and all paperwork is correct,” said Tesla in a statement.
Tesla is producing and selling vehicles at a rate of 100,000 units a year, marking a five-fold increase over a three-year period, according to a report by Electrek. The American electric vehicle manufacturer has ambitious plans – it is aiming for another five-fold increase towards an annual vehicle production of 500,000 units within the first year of Model 3 production.
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Stop making advertisement using 7-series and S-class names.
I think you outsell Bentley by 10 folds, so you are same class or better than Bentley.
It won’t be long for the range to hit 1000km then electric vehicles will be more mainstream
Face it, orang kaya tak mau pergi petrol station pump petrol… consider waste time for them or their drivers… better just plug n charge n probably cheaper too.
Orang kaya dont need to go to petrol pump. They already got their own driver for them to do that
Tesla no need driver d.. got auto pilot..
If that was a fact, some government and manufacturers like Tesla shall stop building charging station in public district. Orang kaya tak mahu pergi public charging station too.
The Tesla model S/X price is $75,700/$96,700
While the Merc S550e cost $95,650
IMO, there is not much difference in price comparatively. The BIG difference lies in its claim mileage for Tesla which is 270 miles to 294 miles on a full charge compare to only 12 miles on a fully charged battery in the 550e.
With the EPA combined city/highway running on electricity & gas, the milage of the 550e goes up to 58 mpg.
On this alone, the Tesla win by a large margin. So how to compete ?
Smart government-linked Companies bought 100 units tax free. Help taxpayers save $$
This will accelerate further the electrification of other car makes and boost support for innovations to improve electric cars in various terms. Thank you Tesla.
These two are different species and also categories in class for comparison..
Petrol and diesel internal combustion car engines are outdated yesterday technology . No matter how the manufacturers or engineers improve the engines , it is still an obsolete technology dating back to it first invention in 1876 in Germany.
The world is fed up with pollutions like traffic generated heat due to prolonged traffic jam , unbearable noise and smoggy air pollution( India), routine maintenance to change costly car engine oil , pollution in our sewerage pipe and drains , rivers and lakes and etc due to accidental oil discharged always!!– unbelieveable
In term of economy, highly depending on oil exporting countries like brunei, saudi, russia, nigeria , iran , iraq seeking to be rich and forming a control cartel without its population having to work very hard with oil high prices will go thru forever with big budget deficit AND devaluation of their currencies. Same goes for malaysia too. Why? low oil prices , extraction production cost more than market selling price.
When in the next 10 years time, countries like France , Germany ( 2030) and others will totally banned internal combustion engines . Then certain part of the world will no longer be dependent on oil producing countries anymore, the price of the oil will fall like “yo-yo” like our past TIN mining price . Then there is plenty of oil supply but less demand , so importing countries will feel the squeeze on the oil price until not viable for production anymore . So the consuming part of the world will no longer be at their mercy anymore and tell them to go to hell..and keep their high pricing oil underneath .!! Period >>>
Presently the advance countries will venture and specialised on solar and wind power technology and perhaps sea waves power. Hydro dam possible.
Heavy polluting coal power generation plants must also be totally be discarded.
WE MUST PUT A BIG BANNED ON NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS TOO e.g. look at Fukushima and Chernobyl. Telling us they are very Advance, SAFE and yet they cannot control the radio active due to disasters and only politicians will talk rubbish giving false assurance to people.
Electric and hydrogen power cars are the transport of the future . Great for countries like europe , Japan and south korea and only if china listens and also perhaps singapore too.
Elan Musk, Nissan , Volvo ,Renault , Mercedes , BMW , VW will be great companies in the future( investing heavily into electric vehicles now and believe that this is the future ) with very big mileage improvement and quick charging/top up to come
Get rid of petrol and diesel engines totally now as They had becomes rubbish obsolete yesterday technology.
We need electric cars now. Go green and everyone will live healthier and longer
Fresh air in the making.
so, our petronas will be history..
“We need electric cars now. Go green and everyone will live healthier and longer”
Partly correct as the source of pollution will now be passed from internal combustion engine to power station required to charge the car. The existing thermal or gas powered station is not green. Coal powered station is worse.
The battle will be won once the battery technology is extended to renewable energy power station especially solar energy. The good news is the future is already on the way…
>WE MUST PUT A BIG BANNED ON NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS TOO
You lost me there. I almost thought you’re a knowledgeable person…. until that sentence.
Just shows you how ignorant and oblivious you are to the real world.