As Elon Musk said, world-wide sales doubled in Q3 from Q2's 40,768 to (Inside EVs' estimate) 83,500. Total Tesla US sales were up 270% in September over the previous year and
225% in the nine months to September over the 9 months to September 2017. Can this growth rate continue? Remember Tesla Model 3 sales are not demand constrained but supply constrained. And so far the company has done a magnificent job expanding production. Sales of the Model 3 haven't even started in Europe or China, nor has the base-level $35,000 Model 3 become available. It's hard not to see sales doubling again over the next year, if Tesla manages to continue to deal with production bottlenecks as it has to date.
Model 3 sales didn't rise as much as
anecdotes suggested they might, but they were still up substantially. Sales of the model S and Y also rose, though not to new records.
Thanks to
InsideEVs for the data/estimates.
(I'll do the overall US EV/PHEV sales charts for September when Inside EVs publishes their data.)
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