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Old 09-02-2018, 06:57 AM   #522 (permalink)
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The delivery time is predictable.
They have 400,000 to 420,000 cars on back order and they "build" about 5,000 per week.
And no one is loaning them money to expand their production line.
The wait should be about 80 weeks give or take a bankruptcy.

I would say that right now teslas are being way over bought and over hyped.
Same thing happened with the nissan leaf. In 2009 to 2010 people were going crazy and getting on 1 to 2 year long wait lists and paying thousands over msrp.
Stop me if this doesn't sound exactly like what is happening with the tesla cars right now...
Now 8 years later the early ones have lost 80% or more of their value and no one wants them.
These early mass produced teslas will probably see a similar fate.
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