Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to ignore as the electric automaker seemingly can’t sell enough cars and trucks to match its rate of production. According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024. Where are all these cars going? Parking lots at its factories, malls and airports.

The Chesterfield Mall, about 20 miles west of St. Louis, has become an overflow lot for Tesla. Emblematic of American retail’s current state, the mall is slated to be demolished and replaced with a $2 billion mixed-use project. The Staenberg Group, the mall’s owner, is eking out the last drops of revenue before the mall’s remaining tenants have to move out on August 31. Tim Lowe, a Staenberg Group senior vice president, told KTVI:

Lowe estimates that there are at least 300 Tesla vehicles parked at the Chesterfield Mall. However, Tesla isn’t slowing down production, Recent drone footage from the automaker’s Fremont, California factory shows that cars are still rolling off the assembly lines at a high rate to fill the site’s lots. Things aren’t different on the other side of the Atlantic. Neuhardenberg, a small town in Germany of less than 3,000 residents, is complaining about the noise Tesla transporters are making as the company parks cars at the nearby regional airport.

Along with having to store ten percent of the vehicles it builds, Tesla also laid off ten percent of its workforce. The Cybertruck is also proving to be a nightmare for many of the owners who decided to take the plunge on the divisive electric pickup, including a warrant that covers coolant leaks for the first 35 miles.

Stanleymaster1:
How will this news promote made in Nigeria goods. Foreign automobile business not moving well is now Nigeria business Abi.

huptin:
Tesla seems to be moving too fast with a technology that is yet to have widespread acceptance...it's a risky business strategy

wonder233:
Something about Tesla has quickly spiralled into an ethnic fight.
Posters above of newspaper clippings of Tinubu and Obi have derailed thread.
Nigerians and ethnnreligious politics. Tufiakwa

Aznicwrit1:
Tesla's Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot



https://autos.yahoo.com/teslas-storing-unsold-inventory-abandoned-174500896.html

huptin:
Tesla seems to be moving too fast with a technology that is yet to have widespread acceptance...it's a risky business strategy