<story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Actually they aren&amp;#x27;t doing so great. Everything has changed.&lt;p&gt;Before last year it was basically just Tesla and a few token cars e.g. Leaf in the electric vehicle space. Now every car company is jumping in and any detractors e.g. BMW CEO are being swiftly moved on.&lt;p&gt;And so Tesla is now competing against the most highly capitalised, profitable and experienced companies in the world. Porsche Taycan is based on every review the best EV car money can buy. VW has the ID.3&amp;#x2F;ID.4 coming out shortly which look seriously good and they have plans for 70 models to be released in the coming decade. You have startups like Rivian which are attracting significant outside funding and disrupting segments. And at the cheaper price points you have dozens of Chinese manufacturers entering the fray.&lt;p&gt;Tesla is about to have the fight of their life and all while they are losing hundreds of millions each quarter.</text></item><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve practically stopped hearing about Tesla in the news, which must mean they&amp;#x27;re doing great. Great job, Tesla folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>et2o</author><text>People have been making that exact argument for years. There have been so many &amp;quot;Tesla killers&amp;quot; that I&amp;#x27;ve lost count. None have panned out.&lt;p&gt;The Taycan is roughly twice as expensive as the equivalent Model S Tesla and has greatly inferior range and, among people likely to buy electric cars, presumably less brand value. People haven&amp;#x27;t forgotten VW&amp;#x27;s emissions scandal. Let&amp;#x27;s not forget they haven&amp;#x27;t even shipped a single Taycan yet. BMW has sold a crappy, overpriced electric car&amp;#x2F;washing-machine-lookalike for years (i3) without it catching on.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there&amp;#x27;s no real competition on the horizon just yet for the Model 3. Tesla have a 3-6 year head start on making electric cars which will be difficult to overcome.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Actually they aren&amp;#x27;t doing so great. Everything has changed.&lt;p&gt;Before last year it was basically just Tesla and a few token cars e.g. Leaf in the electric vehicle space. Now every car company is jumping in and any detractors e.g. BMW CEO are being swiftly moved on.&lt;p&gt;And so Tesla is now competing against the most highly capitalised, profitable and experienced companies in the world. Porsche Taycan is based on every review the best EV car money can buy. VW has the ID.3&amp;#x2F;ID.4 coming out shortly which look seriously good and they have plans for 70 models to be released in the coming decade. You have startups like Rivian which are attracting significant outside funding and disrupting segments. And at the cheaper price points you have dozens of Chinese manufacturers entering the fray.&lt;p&gt;Tesla is about to have the fight of their life and all while they are losing hundreds of millions each quarter.</text></item><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve practically stopped hearing about Tesla in the news, which must mean they&amp;#x27;re doing great. Great job, Tesla folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jakawao</author><text>I do believe that all competitive advantage is temporary and that better offerings are to come from a variety of players...
However, there is simply nothing close to Tesla on the planet today.  It will be some time before others can catch up. They will. It is inevitable. Right now, Tesla has something others are unable to produce.</text></comment>