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      12-20-2019, 03:57 PM   #20
///M4ster Yoda
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People aren't buying them :
Worldwide they increasingly are.

i3 sales by model year:

2013: 311
2014: 16,052
2015: 24,057
2016: 25,528
2017: 31,482
2018: 36,829
2019: over 30,000 after 11 months
I live in NY (large population area). I've seen 15 i3's and 10 i8's in the wild over the last 5 years. No exaggeration.

I see 1 Tesla for every 200 cars on a daily basis. Not a good percentage IMO. Sure in California every Tom Dick and Harry thats "saving" Mother Earth is "driving" one. The rest of the USA not so much. I do see the occasional 530e but even that's kinda rare.

Not sure Americans (-Cali) are really ready or that into electric vehicles. Range anxiety etc etc... are holding a lot of people back. That and Americans want big gas guzzling trucks/SUVs.

Edit: I don't care about worldwide sales where governments are "forcing" the populations to "adopt" electric vehicles.
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