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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Musk is not following the existing car maker model, He has no dealerships. his is direct marketed also his vehicles are electric and that demands establishing infrastructure. As such the comparing his vehicles to conventional cars is a apples to Oranges debate. Yet in the end a Tesla will remain more affordable and practical than a flying sedan chair.
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You mean like Apple with their own product stores?
 
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SamuraiBlue said:
You're overestimating PRC's market in the premium automobile industry.
Musk's vision from the start was to place a more affordable model to the market.
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You're under estimating the Chinese market, why else would he be so angry at his Chinese sales people for not getting the numbers that he wanted to see.

Lower-than-expected China sales cast doubt on his ambitious global expansion plans, a report says.

Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk is ready to fire overseas executives after weak China sales of the company’s luxury electric cars cast doubt on his ambitious global expansion plans,
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-2.56% sold just 120 cars in China last month, well below the ambitious sales targets Musk set for the country. In fact, Reuters notes that Musk expected sales in China to rival Tesla sales in the US in 2015.

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, with Musk blaming a misperception among urban Chinese consumers that it would be difficult to charge their cars.

The tech-centric luxury electric automaker will release its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report after the markets close.
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Blackstone said:
Maybe because Musk is a bad leader, and instead of blaming low sales on weak demand, he points his finger at Chinese salesmen and saleswomen...?
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The Chinese government had five year plans to build a country wide charging network for electric vehicles, I think I read somewhere. Maybe Musk wants to get a foothold in there before the market become swamped by Chinese homegrown competitors.
 
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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Musk is not following the existing car maker model, He has no dealerships. his is direct marketed also his vehicles are electric and that demands establishing infrastructure. As such the comparing his vehicles to conventional cars is a apples to Oranges debate. Yet in the end a Tesla will remain more affordable and practical than a flying sedan chair.
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So where would you take it to get serviced?.Most new cars these days comes with free service fee up to 5yrs or 100,000ks built into the sticker price.They must be expensive to insure. The simplest of nudges on the cars fenders etc could make it unusable for days.
 
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no_name said:
The Chinese government had five year plans to build a country wide charging network for electric vehicles, I think I read somewhere. Maybe Musk wants to get a foothold in there before the market become swamped by Chinese homegrown competitors.
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Still selling it at around $80,000 (basic price in US dollars) is just too much for any Chinese would want to pay just to look "hippish".
 
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Still selling it at around $80,000 (basic price in US dollars) is just too much for any Chinese would want to pay just to look "hippish".
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What's with this hippie talk? I have spent the last couple of hours trying to conjure up an image of a Chinese Hippie of the Scot McKenzie era with little success.

 
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