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Even when there is a positive story about EVs the legacy media cannot help itself to misinform.. Firstly, considering that Tesla produces almost 3,000 vehicles a day, to say that making “600“ or 1/5th as many is “STAGGERING” is just nonsense and certainly doesn’t justify the heightened intonation and... show more
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Like my father before me, I used to trust the @abcnews. But not anymore. When you happen to know more than a bit about a topic, you start to see how one sided and agenda driven their stories are. On X they only publish their "safe" stories. And is it a coincidence that they don't allow comments on their stories on X?
lol. Chinese Teslas are mostly exported (with better build quality than built elsewhere). You're talking about all Teslas built in a day globally, that 600 number spoken about was from one factory. Geely have the most popular EV sold in China. Tesla is the best-selling foreign EV
No, I was talking about the cars coming out of just the Shanghai factory. Tesla builds twice as many cars globally, ~480,000 cars sold in Q2.
Maybe they want to watch this first. I can't verify for its accuracy either but another side perhaps.
Well said Pete. 👍
Good stuff !
Disappointing @abcnews You’re better than this…
Weird documentary. they behaved as if tesla doesn't exist at all.
🎯 That’s exactly what I mean. It nothing short of gas lighting. How can you do a factual story on Chinese cars and not only completely ignore the best-selling car in that market but completely remove any trace of it from reality?
That is one factory in a Chinese market with over 100 company's producing EV's. The US has import restrictions on EV's, as soon as BYD lands in the US you will see the Tesla market diminish.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m for all good EVs and there is a lot to like about a lot of the Chinese EVs, but in response to your comment, in BYD’s home market — China, the number 1 best-selling car is a Tesla. No doubt Tesla sales will diminish in the near-term if BYD enters the US but Full Self-Driving, Superchargers and the many other things that no other EV maker can compete with will mean Tesla retains the number 1 spot by a large margin.
Tesla ranks 5th overall in China's New Energy Vehicle (NEV) market, holding a 5.3% market share. The market is dominated by BYD in first place with a 22.3% share, followed by Geely Auto, Changan, and emerging domestic competitors like Xiaomi and Leapmotor
You’re comparing car brands I was referring to the best-selling model. BYD produces ~30 models in China. Tesla produces 2. The Model Y is the best-selling car in both China and globally.
Well that's just a silly comparison. It's like saying if Coca Cola only produced Coca Cola it would be the number one soft drink everywhere in the world yet because Pepsi has options it can never be number one.
You misunderstand. You are comparing brands I am comparing models, but the point I made was the gaslighting in the ABC story — pretending like Tesla does not exist. To say that producing 600 cars a day is “staggering” is nonsense. As a comparison, I therefore pointed to Tesla and used the best-selling car in China as an example, but a more relevant comparison would have been to point to the biggest car production factory in China. I should have said that the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai produced 851,000 cars last year (almost 4x as many as the “staggering” example in the story, and will probably do >1M in 2026, but you are right to point out BYD which has the 2nd largest factory. Its facility in Zhengzhou produced 545,000 units last year but that’s less than 2/3rds as many cars as Tesla’s gigafactory so I think it was still objectively correct to sight Tesla as an example rather than BYD.
I think most of the Tesla's produced in China are for export markets. Tesla is still losing the game. The US basically has trade barriers on allowing in reasonable competition for Tesla. When looking at Tesla (as a whole, not just a model) they are not world leaders.
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It will be interesting to see if Aunty is actively managing these accounts in X and take your feedback on board! @ABCmediawatch
And what? Chat it up to an EVen bigger multiple?!
I wish Tesla would offer a better seat material option. That's really the only thing I think isn't really up to the standard of the car price. The rest exceeds the expected standard of the price, of course.
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