News: Tesla S becomes Norway's best selling car.

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OSLO (Reuters) -- Tesla Motor's all-electric Model S became the top-selling car in Norway last month, with drivers also paying a premium to buy the sports car second-hand to avoid having to wait five months for a new one, dealers said.

The high performance Tesla S had a market share of 5.1 percent in Norway last month, accounting for 616 of the 12,168 new cars sold and pushing the conventionally-powered Volkswagen Golf into second place with a 4.6 percent share, according to official figures.

Electric cars have been especially popular in Norway because of generous subsidies, free parking, government-provided re-charging stations, the right to use express lanes on highways and exemptions from tolls.

"You get great value for your money with the Model S in Norway," Tenfjord said. "It is a spacious car and it is also environmentally friendly."

A new Tesla Model S costs $110,000-$117,000 in Norway's notoriously expensive car market, well above the $70,000 it costs in the United States, but existing owners willing to part with their car could get $130,000 for them, Tenfjord said.

Some drivers in Norway are now willing to pay as much as $20,000 extra to get the new Model S from existing owners. Currently only 12 of the new Teslas are available on Finn.no, Norway's top classified Web site with asking prices of up to $130,000.

"I have noticed that some people make a very nice profit on these cars," Tenfjord said. "The demand is extreme."

One of those secondhand buyers, 27-year-old financial consultant Anders Langset, said a regular car with similar performance and engine size could have cost him up to 2 million crowns ($330,000) because of the punitive taxes Norway's government levies on cars with big engines.

"I paid more for a second-hand car than I would have paid if I bought it when it was new, but the demand is so high that I am sure I would get my money back and then some if I sold it again today," Langset said.

A BMW 5 series sells in the $100,000-$115,000 range in Norway, below the Model S, but its internal combustion engine is less powerful.
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Daniel Breton devrais allez voir Ellon Musk pour suivre un stage en "électrification des transports"...
 
Ca serait pas genre ''on a eu 616 précommande en 2 ans et on les a livré en 1 mois''?

Anyway je suis content pour Tesla... (et pour l'humanité...)
 
Bien malin celui qui aurait pu prédire l'avenir de Tesla....

Sérieusement on peut pas dire que Musk est prévisible ou encore qu'il est un modele de stabilité. En plus avec tout les délais et les retard dans la production de son premier modele il fallait etre fou ou franchement visionnaire pour miser sur lui.

Inb4 moi j'ai acheter des actions en sachant que sa allait faire un malheur...
 
next big thing could be the fisker. if they manage to revive themselve.
it could become tesla's rival if well managed.
 
infinite said:
next big thing could be the fisker. if they manage to revive themselve.
it could become tesla's rival if well managed.
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Fisker is most likely dead. Yes they have a very nice design but they aren't even a full electric car such as the Model S. If they want to compete somebody should slap in a big Vette V8 in there, and you now have an RS7, CLS AMG rival
 
-Mike- said:
Bien malin celui qui aurait pu prédire l'avenir de Tesla....

Sérieusement on peut pas dire que Musk est prévisible ou encore qu'il est un modele de stabilité. En plus avec tout les délais et les retard dans la production de son premier modele il fallait etre fou ou franchement visionnaire pour miser sur lui.

Inb4 moi j'ai acheter des actions en sachant que sa allait faire un malheur...
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Exactement!!

Et pour ceux que ca interesse, regarder le film The revenge of the electric car qui est la suite de "who killed the electric car"

"In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America's future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. "
 
The next big thing is the Tesla X (crossover/sav) and the Tesla E (rumoured for 2016, size of a 3 Series/A4 and $35,000).
 
allroad said:
The next big thing is the Tesla X (crossover/sav) and the Tesla E (rumoured for 2016, size of a 3 Series/A4 and $35,000).
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Meaning that their products for mass markets are still to come, yet they are already laying down a fantastic network to supply them. This company is in incredible financial state.

The best is yet to come... hopefully.
 
I cant believe that Tesla Motors is able to produce so many cars. It's very impressive.

For Larry David Fans...a recent HBO movie about him giving up his shares in an electric car company right before it became the best selling car worldwide.

 
It's interesting though....a 110K car being a best seller, instead of the Leaf, Volt, Prius or other electric/hybrid cars much more reasonably priced.

It also says a lot about Norwegians' purchasing power...but in the same time, it's odd that in a country with low population density and high purchasing power, the car market is so small (12k cars/year).
 
Lexus said:
It's interesting though....a 110K car being a best seller, instead of the Leaf, Volt, Prius or other electric/hybrid cars much more reasonably priced.

It also says a lot about Norwegians' purchasing power...but in the same time, it's odd that in a country with low population density and high purchasing power, the car market is so small (12k cars/year).
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You answered your own question, cars are so expensive that only a small percentage at the top of the population can afford new cars.

As for why the Tesla is beating out other electric cars is because the Tesla is a great car that happens to be electric. Other electric cars are shitty cars that people buy because they are electric.
 
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