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The Tesla Cybertruck is something however regular. Nonetheless, the sci-fi electrical truck is following the pattern of different Tesla fashions and capturing up the gross sales chart. Naturally, ramping up steadily, it’s nowhere near the highest promoting Tesla Mannequin Y (86,801 deliveries within the third quarter) or the Tesla Mannequin 3 (58,423 deliveries), but it surely has risen to grow to be the third greatest promoting electrical automobile in america (16,692 deliveries), in keeping with Kelley Blue Book.
That 16,692 supply complete greater than doubled the variety of Cybertrucks on the highway, bringing the year-to-date complete to twenty-eight,250. (One other 190 vans had been delivered within the 4th quarter of 2022.)
Extrapolating 16,692 out to a full yr, that will be nearly 67,000 Cybertrucks a yr, lower than half of what Elon Musk as soon as set as his expectation for the electrical truck (150,000 gross sales a yr). I don’t assume we’re near manufacturing ramping as much as its max, however I did simply obtain an invite from Tesla to finish my lower-cost Cybertruck order (I’ve a reservation nonetheless that I’m not anticipating to make use of).
In case you go to the Tesla Cybertruck order web page immediately, it still shows the $99,990 Cybertruck because the lowest price Cybertruck. So, this invite above is certainly only for reservation holders.
Nonetheless, if they’re already attending to reservations for the lower-cost Cybertruck trim, it makes me assume Tesla has already burned by a great chunk of its reservations. However we’ll see.
In comparison with different electrical vans, the Cybertruck is rocking it. In distinction to Tesla’s 16,692 deliveries of the Cybertruck, the Ford F-150 Lightning had solely 7,162 deliveries within the third quarter and the Chevrolet Silverado EV had a mere 1,995 deliveries. The Rivian R1T had solely 3,817 deliveries.
Behind the Cybertruck, the subsequent greatest promoting electrical automobile in america final quarter was the Ford Mustang Mach-E, with 13,392 deliveries. And the fifth greatest promoting — and right here’s the shocker — was the Honda Prologue. Who would’ve thunk it?
General, with 166,923 deliveries, Tesla accounted for 48% of the USA’s 346,309 BEV gross sales within the 2nd quarter. It’s an enormous chunk of the US complete, however, as I noted a couple of weeks agothe model simply dropped beneath 50% of the US BEV market within the 2nd quarter for the primary time since … seemingly endlessly.
By the way in which, whereas Tesla gross sales had been flying, its arch nemeses from a decade or so in the past — hydrogen gasoline cell automobiles — had been languishing as little greater than a footnote. Simply 73 Toyota Mirai and 26 Hyundai Nexo gasoline cell electrical automobiles had been bought within the third quarter in america. The one factor that shocks me is that there are nonetheless one way or the other 100 hydrogen gasoline cell automobiles being bought within the nation.
Ford was the 2nd greatest promoting model for EVs in Q3 2024 (23,509 deliveries) and Chevrolet was third (19,933 deliveries). The numbers are getting bigger, simply not practically as a lot as all of us want.
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