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Comment by Aviatore | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone know exactly what is happening here? It feels like some of their competitors may be selling their cars at a more affordable price due to levies/import costs + perceived brand value for European, Korean and Japanese products. I might be off the handle on this one. Also, if this trend continues, how will TSLA pricing remain so high once the hype simmers.

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I think it might just be simply cars available at different price points which give a good value proposition for that price. Tesla starts at 44k euros in Germany, there is plenty of space to undercut that. It is happening in a lot of countries now with a myriad of automakers coming up with EV models.

Also, not all of them have to match Tesla on either range/performance. If they can get 90% of the performance at say 70% of the price, it is a good buy. Auto market has always been competitive on price.

These types of articles come out each month depending on where car shipments are and are not going.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc...

The difference in price is in most cases greater than the 10% import duty, but yeah: almost all these cars are cheaper than Tesla's entry-level model. And as other commenters have said, these are largely smaller cars than the smallest Tesla, too.

The most expensive VW ID.3 is still a lot cheaper than the cheapest Tesla model 3 according to their web configurators.

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