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Tesla is the new Tucker. Hope it will be more successful.
by scriptproof 13y ago
Tesla is the new Tucker. Hope it will be more successful.
- joezydeco 13y agoTucker shipped less than 100 cars, so I think Tesla can say they are more successful than Tucker.
- mikeyouse 13y agoMostly for my own curiosity, I looked at total domestic auto sales when Tucker was producing as compared to today to get a proportion of sales for each company. Tucker closed in 1949, when about 7mm cars were sold in the US annually. [1] So Tucker's 51 cars produced, out of 7mm total leaves them with a .0007% market share. Tesla sold 2,650 cars in the US in 2012 [2], while there were 14.5mm total sold [3]. Tesla therefore had a .018% market share. Tesla is at least 25x the company Tucker was! [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_automobile_industry_in_the_1950s#Production_by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_automobile_industry_in... [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Sales_and_markets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Sales_and_markets [3] - http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/01/10/u-s-auto-sales-hit-5-year-high-in-2012/ http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/01/10/u-s-auto-sales-hit-...