Featured U.S. Plug In Vehicle Sales Jan 2012 to 2019

There is further discussion of this amazing animated info-graphic here:
https://insideevs.com/news/351297/u-s-electric-car-sales-moving-chart/

 

According to the graph, there are 2-3 times more of Model 3, Model S, Volt, and Leaf than Prime. Yet, I hardly see them around where I live. I see plenty of PRIMEs every day.

 

It's the reverse here. Prime hasn't been carried as regular inventory (due to the limited rollout, which mid-cycle should change) but there's a Tesla store with strong local support. So, we spot lots of Tesla in the metro area. Sightings drop to pretty much nothing once you travel beyond the burbs.

 

same here, metro west boston, it's all tesla, a few volt/bolt/leaf/pip/prime/i-3's

it's amazing how many energy's ford sold, but i wouldn't know one from another

great vid, mr, thanks!

 

Yeah, Tesla must be a metropolitan thing still. I have no problem finding a shop who can service a 4WD pickup, but finding one who can do a good job even on a hybrid is a challenge. I bet they will have no idea what to do with BEV. Local support is very important from a consumer point of view for an item like a car. Buying electronics which have no authorized service dealer around is one thing but buying totally new technology BEV on-line and having no local dealer (or service shop) it totally crazy.

 

the best tesla indy mech is in southern nh

 

My sales guy says the dealership sells one Prime per month.
I just saw my 5th one “in the wild” since getting mine Aug 1, 2018.
Sad.

 

I've seen more Maseratis than Primes on my commute and local driving.

 

Rarely see Maseratis now - but when there were more around, they'd be parked on the side of the road with their bonnets (hood?) up - so quite obvious.

 

I saw more than that today.

But I saw 6 model x’s today.

Does it count if they were on a delivery trailer?

But who’s counting.

 

I see more Maseratis around the NC I frequent than Primes or Teslas all models. But I think most Masers are off rent second renter driven. One Maser dealer 50 miles from me, a situation similar to the number of Tesla "sales" offices. I don't recall seeing any Masers a dozen years ago even though I then lived in a much much more upmarket area.

Neither of my 40 year old kids gives a rats about a car except as a means of transportation. Each had to have a car from the minute they had a driver's license to get to the high school that was 50 minutes away. But it wasn't a status symbol at their school, there were probably more older mini-vans or grand-pa's hand me downs as newer cars. At that school they cared about academic awards and college acceptances. Though the kids were normal (dating, sports, etc), when I visited I observed them walking the halls talking about their chemistry project or their time on the super-computer. So contrary to my experience in the '60s when families were one car families and, if you wanted a car, you earned the money and then maintained it because it was simple enough that you could and there were enough adults around that had experience (because the cars of their youth were unreliable and you had to be able to repair on the road) that you could get help. Only one kid in my class had his own car that didn't buy it himself.