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Re:Tesla Model Y will be unveiled March 14th by magnetic on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:56PM (#19297746)
It is already a mass market car. Model 3 is the best selling car in California for the second half of 2018. By best selling, I don't mean in the EV category, I mean above Civic, Accord, Camry, Corolla.

See https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/23/tesla-model-3-was-top-s...

...and the price just dropped, so you can expect even more competitiveness than the data from 2H2018.

Re:Tesla Model Y will be unveiled March 14th by sjwright on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:15PM (#19297840)
That's a great statistic and I don't want to diminish it in any way, but part of the reason why the Model 3 is selling high right now is because sales* that were made over a multiple year period have been clumped into a shorter period.

* When I say sales, I mean the time when Telsa "won" the customer, not when contracts were signed or they received full payment.

Re:Tesla Model Y will be unveiled March 14th by magnetic on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:31AM (#19301977)
You are right.

I wonder how long it'll take for the production/sales to reach "steady state", ie when the pre-order bubble has been absorbed.