In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party’s official media has been attacking the quality of Tesla’s electric cars, and recently started a new round of hype. But the Tesla Model 3 was the best performer in last year’s China car complaint sales ratio ranking published by Car Quality Network. In March this year, Tesla sales in China surged 207%, Chinese owners are said to be “physically honest”.
A woman makes a scene at the Tesla exhibit at the Shanghai International Auto Show on April 19, 2021, accusing Tesla of brake failure. (Video screenshot)
In early March, China Car Quality Network announced the “2020 Domestic Car Complaint Sales Ratio Ranking”, in which Tesla Model 3’s complaint sales ratio (i.e. the ratio of vehicles complained about to vehicles sold) was 0.7 per 10,000, ranking first among all Chinese cars (i.e. the lowest complaint quality ratio).
The Tesla Model 3 has the best performance in the “2020 domestic car complaint sales ratio ranking” published by Car Quality Network. (Web screenshot)
The above ranking only lists 44 car brands that performed better than 36.5 per 10,000, while the brands with higher complaint sales ratio are not included in the ranking.
The car quality network claims to be “the leading platform for collecting information on defective auto products in China”, and its data is often quoted by the mainland media.
The annual complaint sales ratio of Tesla Model 3 is only 0.7 per 10,000, which means that only 7 out of every 100,000 Tesla Model 3 users will complain. This is completely inconsistent with the image of “rough workmanship and low quality persona” that the land media has created for Tesla for a long time.
Although Tesla has been making headlines in the mainland media for so-called “loss of control” or “spontaneous combustion,” many Chinese owners are apparently unwilling to believe the media’s propaganda. Tesla’s rising sales in China illustrate this point.
In February, Tesla sold 18,318 units in China, up 15.47 percent from January, and 35,478 units in March, almost double the number in February and up 207 percent from March last year.
On overseas social media, some netizens ridiculed that “cursing Tesla is work, buying Tesla is life” and that Chinese users are “physically honest”.
On April 19, a woman went to the Shanghai Auto Show and accused Tesla of “brake failure”. The Chinese Communist Party’s official media then began to “round up” Tesla, setting off a small climax of “boycotting Tesla. It is widely believed that this may be a farce led by the Chinese Communist Party officials, because Tesla’s hot sales impacted the domestic electric car market, or Beijing authorities used it to put pressure on Tesla, which developed the “Starlink” Internet and refused to turn in its driving data.
Recently, under the pressure of the Chinese Communist Party, Tesla released the driving data of the lady’s car, showing that the brakes of the Tesla car involved were working normally, so it is highly suspected that the car was caused by the owner’s high-speed speeding. After the release of the data, internet opinion cooled down somewhat, but the official media pressure on Tesla continued.
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