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Tesla produced 433,371 cars and delivered 386,810.
Does that mean they have trouble selling cars and building a stockpile?
I think so. As I understand it, Tesla have produced to order before. Every car off the line went directly to a customer.
At some point, the association with Musk has to negatively impact the brand and I wonder if a portion of these headwinds are related to that. The demographic for Teslas isn’t going to be Texas conservatives so the people Musk is directly against are the same people he wants to buy the cars. I have to imagine that like myself, some people who would have probably purchased a Tesla historically would not do so now. I was thinking about going electric and getting a Tesla but won’t be associated with Musk. It’s a single sample of 1 so obviously anecdotal but I can’t be the only person.
I mean, even there, the marketplace of electric cars has expanded. For a while, it was the only car, then the only good car, now I see a lot of people buying fancy brand new not-Tesla cars that don't seem to have the drawbacks of the earlier not-Tesla electric cars.