Meanwhile:<p>The Nissan Leaf is expanding where it is being sold.<p><a href="https://electrek.co/2018/02/06/nissan-new-leaf-sales-seven-additional-markets/" rel="nofollow">https://electrek.co/2018/02/06/nissan-new-leaf-sales-seven-a...</a><p>There are now 300K Nissan Leaf's on roads:<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/01/09/nissan-leaf-300000-sales-global/#5b27e5b41cf6" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/01/09/niss...</a><p>Kudos to Tesla for pioneering and kicking off electric cars.
I really wish Tesla would succeed. But between their build quality issues and their production issues, it's not looking good.<p>And this isn't even their biggest problem, which is that the cars are too expensive for the mass market.
Disclaimer up front: I work for a Tesla competitor.<p>The SpaceX launch was truly amazing, everybody was talking about it at work!<p>I wonder if that was the most expensive car commercial in history? Did Tesla pay SpaceX for promotional consideration?