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Tesla Dealers Claimed They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They? (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] Markie84@feddit.org 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:

3 Days á 24 Hours = 72 hours
8653 Cars / 72 Hours = 120 cars per hour
120 / 60 = 2 cars per minute...
So one car sold every 30 seconds.

If we assume normal 8 hours per day:

3 days á 8 Hours = 24 hours
8653 / 24 = 360 cars per hour
360 / 60 = 6 cars per minute.
So one car sold every 10 seconds.

Without reading through the article: No, I'm pretty sure they didn't sell that many cars. --

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I had a crowd of people around me begging for a free car and all they had to do was sign the paperwork (the minimum legally required steps to buy a car) I couldn't keep up with that.

[–] Markie84@feddit.org 16 points 5 days ago

Not to mention that you would then also need an extra person to continuously refill the paper in the printer for 8 hours. :)

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago

Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.

A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

!theydidthemath@lemm.ee

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

!theydidthemonstermath@lemm.ee

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it was a graveyard math

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

it was a graveyard ~~math~~ graph

It cosined in a flash

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was gonna do the math but I knew my fediverse nerds would math the math first.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.

the article's author did the math too!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t come here to read articles. Most of them are behind paywalls anyway

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

the real articles were in the comments all along