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by usaphp 3736 days ago
> "Tesla struggled to get 50,000 cars out last year. BMW sold north of 2 million cars in 2015"

Please do not compare all the models BMW sold with a single Tesla Model S. BMW only sold 142,000 of 3 series in 2014. http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2011/01/bmw-3-series-sales-figu...

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I disagree. His comment was in regards to "production capability, supply chain and support network".

The fact is that BMW produced 40x more vehicles in 2015, which would suggest their supply chain and support network is much more robust.

The comment he replied to said nothing about Tesla competing with BMW on all models, the original comment was referring to model 3 vs bmw 3 series and C class Merc
Pretty sure everyone knew what he was taking about, well, except you...
His point was that the supply chain is there and working well. Tesla has a non-trivial amount of work to do to be able to catch up to those sorts of production numbers.