The best -selling car in Europe, the Model 3 propels Tesla to stock markets |Macgeneration

The Model 3 of Tesla was the best -selling car in Europe in September 2021.Not the best-selling electric car, but the car in short: with 24,591 copies sold this month, it does better than the Renault Clio, the Dacia Sandero or the Volkswagen Golf, the other heavyweightsof the market.It is a symbolic figure, since it is the first time that an electric car has obtained this place and also the first time that a car created out of Europe has reached it.

This performance is all the more appreciable since the automotive market is in crisis, linked in particular to the shortage of components.While traditional actors pay all the consequences, with sales down since last year, Tesla seems to get out of it without incident, as evidenced by these sales in Europe.Proof that its flexibility pays: the firm has changed at least nineteen components since the start of the year to manage supply problems.

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This almost insolent good health should not be called into question anytime soon.In the United States, the company signed an agreement at $ 4.2 billion with the rental giant Hertz to provide it no less than 100,000 cars by the end of 2022.It is the largest acquisition of electric vehicles by a rental company, the sector having largely remained faithful to thermal vehicles until then.We do not know the distribution of orders, but the essential should focus on Model 3 and Model Y, the SUV variant of the first.

For Tesla, this agreement is the assurance of already having something to occupy its historic Californian factory for 2022.The manufacturer also displays extended deadlines for its American customers, who will have to wait until September 2022 to receive a Model 3 SR+, the basic model.The manufacturer did not need Hertz to fill his order book, but this contract gives him even more freedom to do almost what he wants, including brutally increase his prices.

The firm is customary for sudden prices changes, downwards and upwards, even if the trend has been well constantly increasing for several months.Across the Atlantic, the whole range has increased throughout the year and the basic model has increased by around 20 % since the end of 2020, while the Model took 17.5 % over the same period.France remains for the moment spared, with an entry ticket which is still one of the lowest in Europe: € 37,800 bonuses deduced.It’s an excellent price, but may not last long.

While we expect a slight increase on the nominal capacity of its battery, which would go from 55 to 60 kWh, Tesla could take advantage of it to increase the price of its Model 3 SR+ in France.And if the prices displayed on transit vehicles during the weekend are not mistakes, the increase could be substantial. On évoque un prix de base rehaussé de 5 400 €, rien que ça, ce qui se traduirait par une hausse de 9 400 €¹ pour le client final ! Une hausse spectaculaire, qui compenserait la baisse tout aussi impressionnante de janvier 2021².

While waiting to know what Tesla intends to do in France, these good figures have made happy on the stock market.The title of the company took off yesterday to exceed the value of a thousand dollars for the first time.The market capitalization of the company has thus joined the very elitist club of the Dollars trillion, or 1,000 billion dollars, alongside Apple, Google, Microsoft or Amazon.Elon Musk himself was surprised by this brutal increase if we believe this tweet, but the CEO had something to party yesterday.

This increase in fact allowed him to strengthen his richest place as a man on the planet by adding $ 36.2 billion to its valuation in one day and approaching the $ 290 billion in all.Jeff Bezos is undoubtedly disgusted in his distant place number 2 with his 190 billion dollars in capitalization "only".Bloomberg also notes that this is the largest increase in individual capital recorded in a single day.

Even Hertz benefited from the good humor of the financial markets yesterday: the firm saw its market capitalization increase by $ 1.17 billion.

1. The ecological bonus of € 6,000 is conditioned at a maximum sale price of € 45,000.If Tesla increases its prices well at that of transit vehicles, we would exceed this threshold and the bonus would then be reduced to € 2,000.Or a model 3 SR+ billed from € 47,200, against € 37,800 today.↩︎

2. Tesla had then dropped without warning the price of its Model 3 SR+ of more than € 7,000, which allowed it to benefit from the maximum bonus and thus spend the final price from € 47,990 to € 36,800.A boon for new customers, including the author of these lines, but a new more bitter for those who had just bought the car ... ↩︎