Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by sliken on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:58PM (#19753315)

Odd. They are extremely common in California. My office mate has one, her second after giving the first to her daughter. A friend has a motorcycle accident and TWO Prius were involved.

So in the USA, or at least in California they are very common. Part of their popularity is their fleet use makes them direct cheap in the used market, and they tend to be pretty reliable despite the complexity of two separate drive trains.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by georgerobinson on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:35PM (#19753523)

I think one of the issues is that the Prius starts from $30,000 here - which is quite a lot - and a lot of cheaper, but still economical cars are available for much less.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by sliken on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:02PM (#19753686)

Ah, they start around $23k here, and available used from fleet use for $12-$13k with 50-60k miles.

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