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Originally Posted by Azure
Almost at 300,000 pre orders. At $42,000 average cost per vehicle, they will soon have $10 billion worth of orders to go. Plus the whole $300 million in interest free cash.
The direct sales model must be really pissing off the dealerships across the world.
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There's something like 15 million cars sold per year in the US. There's plenty of sales to go around.
Besides, Tesla is claiming they have a superior product to the traditional fuel cars, that's a large part of their whole sales pitch. Dealerships probably wouldn't be interested in making that pitch, because it would undermine the rest of their products.
That said, yeah, they're not going to LIKE it. But the traditional car industry hates Tesla anyway. Gas stations, dealerships, services, other manufacturers, oil companies etc, pretty much everyone could take a hit if electric cars become the norm. (Although oil companies less so, as they're mostly "energy companies" anyway.)