Tesla Model S. Market and Sales Strategy

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,3, University of applied sciences, Cologne, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this assignment was to analyze the market and sales strategy of Tesla and to identify its Model 3 customers. After ten years of waiting, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has presented Tesla Model 3 to the public for the first time in an evening show at the end of march 2016. Unveiled at the company's design studio in Hawthorne, California in front of a crowd of whooping and cheering customers and journalists, Model 3 is the most affordable Tesla so far, hoped to bring electric cars to the mass market. Musk stated that the car will deliver at least 215 miles of range beginning at just 35.000 dollar. Musk is 'fairly confident' that deliveries will begin by the end of 2017, and 'you will not be able to buy a better car for 35.000 dollar, even with no options.' Also it will be one of the safest cars in the world, according to Musk. Even before Tesla unveiled its new middle-class model, there were more than 115,000 people who had paid already 1.000 dollar to reserve one of the highly-anticipated electric cars. These early buyers didn't know what the car would look like or that it would have a starting price of exactly 35.000 dollar. They also didn't know how long the production and delivery would take.