Chevy Bolt Outselling Tesla Model 3?
Well, it’s the last day of the year, and due to our overwhelming depression from the lack of sales of Tesla’s Model 3, we took a number of months off from writing. Having overcome our TeslaQuila hangover just in time to celebrate the New Year, we thought we would revisit just how horribly the Model 3 has sold. As can be seen from the image, Chevy Bolt sales for the entire year of 2018 up through November have not managed to surpass the disappointing Model 3 sales for the past 4 months of 2018. Fear not, I suspect that December sales will come in under November.
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Something I would like our intrepid readers to remember, is to not worry about the fact that GM also has expiring EV tax credits. This has nothing to do with how GM plans on stopping production of the Chevy Volt in March 2019, coinciding with the additional reduction in the tax credits it receives, where the Volt becomes a ridiculous choice, to NOT buy, of course. We expect Chevy Bolt sales to rise dramatically at this tax credit reduction as it’s amazing styling and performance put the Tesla Model 3 to shame. The same goes with the Nissan Leaf, which recently received a facelift to transform it from an obvious virtue-signaling vehicle to a more average, subdued, and snooze-inspiring design.
It’s estimated that the Model 3 will only sell around 150,000 copies of the vehicle in 2018, which as we all know, is a horrible disappointment compared to the sales of the Chevy Bolt.
