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https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16956902/california-dmv-s...
Tesla deserves credit for getting other automakers to take the EV market seriously, but they are by no means years behind Tesla in terms of production and sales.
For self-driving, though, Waymo seems to have the edge right now for near-full-autonomy. Tesla's system is really much more like a really-fancy adaptive cruise control right now. But if Tesla gave them LIDARs (currently expensive, but may become cheap enough for Tesla to just add-on) and made them drive like grandmas (like Waymo) around well-mapped, dry locations, then they likely would be in the same ballpark. Which isn't to demean Waymo's impressive efforts at all.
How many EVs is Volkswagen selling per year?
How many EVs is Subaru selling per year?
How many EVs is Fiat selling per year?
How many EVs is Ferrari selling per year?
How many EVs is Daimler selling per year?
How many EVs is Ford selling per year?
How many EVs is PSA selling per year?
How many EVs is Hyundai Kia selling per year?
How many EVs is Mazda selling per year?
How many EVs is Suzuki selling per year?
Tesla is in fact still embarrassing the auto industry and selling EVs by an order of magnitude beyond what nearly all of the major auto companies are. The above listed companies are selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles and should be heckled aggressively for it.
The fact that so few major automakers are selling EVs at all, demonstrates that what I've said is correct.
But hey, all these fossil-fuel makers have great plans for the future. One day soon.
The question is: how come those companies aren't being bankrupted for the horrific products they're producing by the millions? Where's the FUD attack on those corporations (which would actually be useful in dramatically improving the world)? Priorities are entirely screwed up when its the EV maker getting smacked around for not selling enough EVs.
Nissan has delivered 300K leafs (why did you leave them out?).
Chevvy sells about 20K volts / year.
Lots more data here: https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
The companies you list are selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles because that's their business: selling cars. And as long as they can continue to do so profitably they will do so.
And whether or not Ferrari makes fossil fuel cars or not is immaterial, the numbers aren't there.
Fiat has an electric car but they are not turning a profit on it (it is priced very low, and they still can't sell them).
So does Renault, they too make electric cars, and have been doing so for quite a while.
Um, no.
"November was another good month for GM’s Chevy Bolt EV US sales. The electric vehicle hit a new record with almost 3,000 units sold in one month – bringing the total to over 20,000 units to date". [0]
Of course total Tesla sales are higher than 20K units, but if we are talking about EV cars in mass segment, Tesla is being outsold at this moment.
[0] https://electrek.co/2017/12/01/chevy-bolt-ev-us-sales-record...
The other automakers aren't pairing the drivetrains with big expensive batteries, so they aren't selling them with big expensive batteries, but there's also only so much consumer demand for $45,000+ electric vehicles.
Besides, selling a car of Tesla's quality would be embarassing to every company on your list. Well, maybe not Suzuki, but probably to them, too.
Tesla in fact ranks with Acura on quality, above Volvo, and just below Volkswagen and Ford.
The low rating on Mercedes should be pretty embarrassing for them, they're merely one quality notch above Tesla and comparable to Ford.
