Tesla Sales Double In Latest Quater, Year-Over-Year; Best Sales Quarter In Company's History -- October 2, 2016

From WSJ, based on Tesla press release:

• best sales quarter in company's history
• deliveries more than doubled from a year earlier
• deliveries in most recent quarter: 24,500
• 15,800 Model S sedans
• 8,700 Model X SUVs
• an additional 15,500 cars in transit and will be counted in 4Q16 deliveries
• guidance continues to suggest 50,000 cars will be delivered in calendar year 2016
• Model 3 slated for next year; sedan: $35,000
• MuskMelon predicts 500,000 annually beginning in 2018, two years earlier than expected

GM plans to bring out a fully electric Chevrolet Bolt later this year.

I believe the range for the Model 3 Tesla and the Chevrolet Bolt will range between 200 and 300 miles on a single charge.

I recently returned from a trip back to the Bakken. In my 2012 Honda Civic, bought from Ryan Motors, Williston, ND, back in December, 2011. I had no range anxiety. This photo was taken after I had already driven about 15 miles down the road and then noted the anticipated range based on a nearly full tank of gasoline, 87 octane with no ethanol, and driving conditions -- about 60 mph:

The range shown above is 586 miles after I had already driven about 15 miles; the "high" was actually 588 miles but I was too slow in getting the camera out. I forget now, but I believe this was taken just east of Sidney, Nebraska, where I had stopped to fill up.

On the trip north, from Grapevine, TX, to Williston, ND, I averaged almost 50 miles per gallon -- this was from Grapevine, TX, to about ten miles north of Wichita, Kansas (49.9 miles per gallon):

This was the highest "average" mileage per gallon of gasoline. Overall, on the 1,400-mile round trip from north Texas to northwest North Dakota, average mileage was never less than 40 mpg.