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Re:One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic... by prmoustache on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:32AM (#42839127)
I can't say about Denmark but my observation is that the electric car landscape in europe might be slightly more diversified than say in the USA.

Mostly because our number one car is not a truck and thus the competition had to react and build EVs to compete against Tesla.

Here are the numbers I found for 2020:

1 Renault Zoe: 99,261

2 Tesla Model 3: 85,713

3 Volkswagen ID 3: 56,118

4 Hyundai Kona: 47,796

5 Volkswagen eGolf: 33,650

6 Peugeot e208: 31,287

7 Kia eNiro: 31,019

8 Nissan Leaf: 30,916

9 Audi E-tron: 26,454

10 BMW i3: 23,113

So there are many more EV cars from other brands sold in 2020 than there were Tesla Model 3. The Tesla Model 3 represented at the very least less than 18.5% of cars as I only counted the top 10.

source: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/renault-zoe-ecli...

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Re:One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic... by sehansen on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:01AM (#42839307)
Tesla Model 3 was the most sold electric car sales in Denmark in 2020 at around 1/3 of electric cars sold:

1 Tesla Model 3: 4,277

2 Volkswagen ID.3: 1,722

3 Hyundai Kona: 1,160

4 Kia Niro: 834

5 Renault Zoe: 704

6 Volkswagen Golf: 625

7 Nissan Leaf: 566

8 Audi E-tron: 493

9 Volkswagen Up!: 369

10 Porsche Taycan: 327

Source: https://www.bn.dk/bilmagasin/her-er-aarets-mest-solgte-biler...

So the Danish electric car market was somewhat diversified, but the Tesla brand was very strong back then. Still, you're absolutely correct that there were enough other electric cars sold back than that the comparison with the Model 3 is fair.

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Re:One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic... by rsynnott on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:36AM (#42839527)
> Mostly because our number one car is not a truck and thus the competition had to react and build EVs to compete against Tesla.

I mean, it wasn't even really reactive; the Leaf and Zoe came out at about the same time as the Tesla Model S, and weren't competing with it (they were well under half the price). They were quite old news by the time the Model 3 launched. The VW eGolf and BMW i3 also predate affordable (sub-100k) Tesla cars being available, at least in Europe.

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Re:One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic... by prmoustache on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:10AM (#42840276)
True. I think even before that the Mitsubishi iMiev and its peugeot/citroën counterparts predated the Model S and outsold it in the early years.
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