[HN Gopher] BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time
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       BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2024-08-23 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (electriccarsreport.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (electriccarsreport.com)
        
       | electronbeam wrote:
       | Maybe I'm in a bubble, but I didn't even notice BMW had EVs
        
         | NewJazz wrote:
         | Are you based in the EU?
        
         | SllX wrote:
         | They've been in the BEV market for a bit. Not long after the
         | first Tesla Model S was released, BMW released the i3. That
         | one's since been discontinued but they have at least 8 other
         | BMW i models on the market.
        
         | Etheryte wrote:
         | While BMW does have some models that are blatantly electric
         | like the i3, most of their electric cars look pretty much just
         | like the regular gasoline ones. I think it's a clever move that
         | taps into their existing market dynamic.
        
           | jeffbee wrote:
           | > most of their electric cars look pretty much just like the
           | regular gasoline ones
           | 
           | Right, they have disguised the electric ones as phenomenally
           | ugly late-stage German cars, so you can't really tell they
           | are electric without getting closer than you'd really like.
           | From a safe distance it just looks like any other BMW with
           | grill cancer.
        
         | connicpu wrote:
         | At this point I feel like it's easier to list all the car
         | companies that don't have EV offerings than all of the ones
         | that do.
        
         | the_mitsuhiko wrote:
         | Cannot judge if you are in a bubble but BMW has more variety
         | for electric models than Tesla. There are probably some
         | customers that care.
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | How much of this is driven by lumpy delivery? Tesla used to do
       | this all the time: book thousands of orders, send them all over
       | on a boat at once, then announce that they were the top-selling
       | car in Swagistan (for that month, and no longer time scale). Is
       | it the same story for BMW?
        
         | streptomycin wrote:
         | Yes https://i.imgur.com/ZNv1AyD.jpg
         | 
         | Although BMW is making some nice EVs and they are selling more
         | than they used to, the headline is misleading.
        
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