Damn I posted a link without a single quote. Triggered much Christ.
Guess this bit didn't catch your eye:
"Matthias Schmidt, a Germany-based EV industry analyst and publisher of a monthly industry report, cautions not to read too much into the figures—at least not yet—since July and August are seasonally among the weakest as people go on holiday."
Good thing there aren't any BYD fan bois here. More of them might be reality triggered too.
Tesla Impressive Car Building Process
Tesla’s Fremont behemoth, where all Model X, Model S and Model 3s are built, has to be one of the most famous car factories in the world - formerly for all the wrong reasons, more recently for all the right. The home of “production hell,” in Elon’s words, it’s where a previously boutique electric car company had to teach itself how to manufacture on a mass scale, in full view of the world. Through a combination of ruthless streamlining, reducing the level of automation in some key areas, and the boss himself resorting to sleeping on the factory floor to get the log-jams sorted, the Teslas are starting to flow, and so is the profit.