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Tesla model 3.
Credit: Tesla
My community in Los Angeles is under attack.
By an avant-garde of new owners of model 3: my neighbors began to look for models 3 like, well, there is no tomorrow.
I live in an area northwest of downtown Los Angeles that, for reasons I never understood, has become a hotbed for electric vehicles. This includes many X models, S models, Chevy Volts and a smaller but growing population of Chevy Bolts.
But model 3 is in another league. According to my estimates, it is the most popular new car in my community.
Focus on my immediate neighborhood, three of my neighbors have a new model 3 (all purchased in the last four months or so). Zoom on the whole community (several hundred houses), we probably talk about a dozen or more bought during the same period.
And there is practically a scourge of Model 3 if I include neighboring communities.
This is remarkable. Because Model 3 configurations are not cheap. These are high-end variants that cost at least $ 50,000.
Model Y could be another hot seller.
Credit: Model Y
Is your neighborhood the next?
In the United States, Model 3 sales continue at a steady pace, with nearly 70,000 sales to the United States since the beginning of the year and monthly totals up, month-to-month, according to Sales report by InsideEV.
So what's going on? In a way, model 3 is the new Prius around 2003. The new default green car purchase. An expensive fault, but cheaper, does not seem to have an effect on electric vehicles – at the expense, unfortunately, of other large electrical devices like the Chevy Bolt.
The Bolt started production (October 2016) before the Model 3 (July 2017) and is well below that of the Model 3. The Chevrolet, with a range of 238 miles from the EPA, got very good reviews. And it falls roughly into the category of popular crossovers (technically, it's a hatchback).
Still, Chevrolet sold only 1,659 bolts in the United States in June 2019, while Tesla sold 21,225 models 3, according to InsideEV. And the totals are even more unequal.
Today, my neighborhood is still the exception, not the rule. When I travel to places on the east coast, there is no resemblance to the type of saturation of Model 3 that I see here. But I think other parts of the United States will exchange some of their Mercedes, Lexuses and BMW for Model 3. And your neighborhood could be next.
Model 3 parked in front of my house. It's an increasingly familiar scene as locals in my community take the hottest car in Tesla.
Credit: Brooke Crothers
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* The reason might be that I live in a brand new area of Los Angeles. Most homes are under the age of 15 and so the community attracts a lot of younger, more mobile homeowners.
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Tesla model 3.
Credit: Tesla
My community in Los Angeles is under attack.
By an avant-garde of new owners of model 3: my neighbors began to look for models 3 like, well, there is no tomorrow.
I live in an area northwest of downtown Los Angeles that, for reasons I never understood, has become a hotbed for electric vehicles. This includes many X models, S models, Chevy Volts and a smaller but growing population of Chevy Bolts.
But model 3 is in another league. According to my estimates, it is the most popular new car in my community.
Focus on my immediate neighborhood, three of my neighbors have a new model 3 (all purchased in the last four months or so). Zoom on the whole community (several hundred houses), we probably talk about a dozen or more bought during the same period.
And there is practically a scourge of Model 3 if I include neighboring communities.
This is remarkable. Because Model 3 configurations are not cheap. These are high-end variants that cost at least $ 50,000.
Model Y could be another hot seller.
Credit: Model Y
Is your neighborhood the next?
In the United States, Model 3 sales continue at a steady pace, with nearly 70,000 US sales since the beginning of the year and monthly totals increasing month-to-month, according to calculations. sales made by InsideEV.
So what's going on? In a way, model 3 is the new Prius around 2003. The new default green car purchase. An expensive fault, but cheaper, does not seem to have an effect on electric vehicles – at the expense, unfortunately, of other large electrical devices like the Chevy Bolt.
The Bolt started production (October 2016) before the Model 3 (July 2017) and is well below that of the Model 3. The Chevrolet, with a range of 238 miles from the EPA, got very good reviews. And it falls roughly into the category of popular crossovers (technically, it's a hatchback).
Still, Chevrolet sold only 1,659 bolts in the United States in June 2019, while Tesla sold 21,225 models 3, according to InsideEV. And the totals are even more unequal.
Today, my neighborhood is still the exception, not the rule. When I travel to places on the east coast, there is no resemblance to the type of saturation of Model 3 that I see here. But I think other parts of the United States will exchange some of their Mercedes, Lexuses and BMW for Model 3. And your neighborhood could be next.
Model 3 parked in front of my house. It's an increasingly familiar scene as locals in my community take the hottest car in Tesla.
Credit: Brooke Crothers
–
* The reason might be that I live in a brand new area of Los Angeles. Most homes are under the age of 15 and so the community attracts a lot of younger, more mobile homeowners.