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Messier_82 t1_j2bhxxw wrote

Reply to comment by Leuchty in Tesla Model Y Was Europe's Best-Selling Car Overall In November by poke133

Weird, that’s crazy if true. Do they just put them all on a single ship? Is it somehow cheaper? Otherwise I’d assume they ship them as they roll off the production line

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swistak84 t1_j2bvgld wrote

>Weird, that’s crazy if true. Do they just put them all on a single ship? Is it somehow cheaper? Otherwise I’d assume they ship them as they roll off the production line

It's true, you can look at the numbers yourself.

This is related to two things:

  1. A lots of their cars are still shipped in. So one or two ships arriving with thousands of cars each will skew statistics for that month.
  2. Tesla overall has strong pushes at the end of the quarter. If you look at the graphs of their sales it's basically peaks and holes whole year, while most other car makers are more flat. This is mostly left-over from the time they were producing thousands of cars, struggling to survive and every quarter counted. Old habits die hard
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soldiernerd t1_j2bzf2h wrote

Traditionally, all globally sold vehicles (ie outside US) were made in Shanghai and shipped early in the quarter. As the quarter progressed, Shanghai would shift to local deliveries.

They’ve made some efforts to unwind this delivery pattern, and they now make Model Ys for Europe in Germany, but Europe still receives a lot of Chinese exports (and US exports for Model S/X) so the deliveries are still somewhat “lumpy”.

This should continue to smooth out however

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ResponsibleAd2541 t1_j2bqwsr wrote

They make’em in Berlin?

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Messier_82 t1_j2bsb8t wrote

Then it would make even less sense for them to deliver all at once… is that person full of it?

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ResponsibleAd2541 t1_j2bt198 wrote

I think they ramped up production at that factory so perhaps they are thinking a big shift in the number of deliveries reflects something else. If they were shipped from America, I don’t see how they would “all” show up at once. They’d have to stockpile them or something then ship them. Unless they were all on the same boat but that’s unlikely. I dunno what the other fellow is referring to.

It costs money to warehouse product.

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kuldan5853 t1_j2bx1c0 wrote

Germany was (and still is) serviced mainly by Shanghai, not Fremont

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swistak84 t1_j2buwnf wrote

Some of them, a lot still sails in from China

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