According to CarNewsChina, Tesla only registered a measly 10 (ten) “revamped” Model 3 cars in all of China during the first week in October.
Tesla was the biggest loser, with an almost 90% drop in sales… For Tesla, the first week of October wasn’t good. Their sales were down 86% week-on-week, and they sold only about 1,000 vehicles in China. That isn’t enough even for the top 10 EV makers, so you don’t see them in the first leaderboard chart. All 1000 registered vehicles were Model Y, with Model 3 registering only about 10 units.
Compare Tesla falling off a cliff with BYD Motors rocketing ahead on 51,400 new EV registered in that same period.
Not a misprint.
More than 50,000 new BYD electric cars were being registered as Tesla strained and struggled to find 1,000 people who haven’t yet heard of BYD.
Tesla made a huge splash announcement recently that it “updated” the Model Y in China by changing the dashboard trim and fixing a misprint in their published range, increasing a whopping 9 whole kilometers from 545 to 554. Seriously, they just switched the numbers around. Tesla also claimed a high performance “boost” to 5.9 seconds for its 0-100km/h acceleration time.
Yawn. Is it 2013 yet?
In related news, crushing the ongoing fraud of Tesla, BYD says it is ready to begin shipping their U9 supercar, a 1,084 horsepower EV rated at 0-100km/h in 2 seconds… designed with balance so refined it can run on three of four wheels. 
Despite the Tesla CEO going “prostrate” for sales in China, his low-quality rushed cars are inevitably getting pushed aside.
…Musk seems to go out of his way to prostrate himself before Chinese authorities. At the end of 2021, Tesla opened a showroom in Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang—the province where the Chinese government has, by many accounts, carried out mass detentions and abuses of the Uyghur community. Only days earlier, Biden had signed a law that bars products from the region from entering the U.S., to counter the use of Uyghurs as forced laborers. The office of Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who has been active in this cause, charged that companies such as Tesla “are helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide and slave labor.”
What a guy.
A white South African guy raised by anti-Semitic white nationalists under Apartheid is now known for covering up genocide and excusing slave labor to sell his cars? The same guy who throws down a WikiPedia article in 2023 to help justify slavery as “standard practice”?
Hey, you know what else was made rare last century? Horses and carriages. Somehow the guy wanting everyone to immediately buy into future driverless science fiction and forget the present, wants to also argue that the abolition of slavery two centuries ago is oh so very recent.
Any cars that are being made that don’t have full autonomy will have negative value. It will be like owning a horse. You will only be owning it for sentimental reasons.
He said that in 2015. Since then his fraudulent “full autonomy” project is what has turned into negative value. More importantly, he revealed he has strong sentimental reasons for trying to bring back slavery.
This guy sounds like just the kind of 村中白痴 the Chinese are very wise to stop buying from. A 90% drop isn’t enough.
