Tesla Sold Only One Car in Korea in January::Tesla Inc. sold just one electric vehicle in South Korea in January as a raft of headwinds, from safety concerns to price and a lack of charging infrastructure, weigh on demand.
A sucker is born… once a month in a whole country.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Korea makes their own electric cars. Why not buy local.
ccdfa@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Koreans love foreign brands and consume the most luxury brands per capita in the world. These luxury brands are more important here as status symbols than anywhere else I’ve lived. I’m surprised by this stat because I work in a very wealthy part of Seoul and see many many teslas each day. It’s honestly baffling how many teslas I see. But I’m with you: why not buy local? Why buy a Tesla at all?
kemsat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I feel like if Koreans want luxury, they’d go with Genesis or a German brand instead of Tesla.
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Teslas were a big “first”, though I’m not sure if that holds true in Korea. So they might just be early adopters driving those around.