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Tesla Dealers Claimed They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?

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Tesla Dealers Claimed They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?

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  • Markie84@feddit.org
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    If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:

    • 3 Days á 24 Hours = 72 hours
    • 8653 Cars / 72 Hours = 120 cars per hour
    • 120 / 60 = 2 cars per minute…
    • So one car sold every 30 seconds.

    If we assume normal 8 hours per day:

    • 3 days á 8 Hours = 24 hours
    • 8653 / 24 = 360 cars per hour
    • 360 / 60 = 6 cars per minute.
    • So one car sold every 10 seconds.

    Without reading through the article: No, I’m pretty sure they didn’t sell that many cars. –

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      If I had a crowd of people around me begging for a free car and all they had to do was sign the paperwork (the minimum legally required steps to buy a car) I couldn’t keep up with that.

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        Not to mention that you would then also need an extra person to continuously refill the paper in the printer for 8 hours. :)

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      Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.

      A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.

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      !theydidthemath@lemm.ee

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        !theydidthemonstermath@lemm.ee

        • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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          it was a graveyard math

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            it was a graveyard math graph

            It cosined in a flash

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      I was gonna do the math but I knew my fediverse nerds would math the math first.

      • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.

        the article’s author did the math too!

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          I don’t come here to read articles. Most of them are behind paywalls anyway

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            the real articles were in the comments all along

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    They technically probably did. They sold them to themselves. The plan was to sell them, get the credits, then sell them as used zero mile vehicles at a discount.

    It’s shady as hell and they should be fined.

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      Jailed*/Shot*

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    Enron Musk

    Fraud, fraud, and more fraud.

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    Nah of course not it’s obvious fraud. Question is what happens now ?

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      guillotine

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