It was revealed that domestically produced and imported Model 3 models had a chip "reduction" problem, which quickly brought Tesla to the forefront. The stock market has been restless for Tesla. It can be said that it has been a bad year and a troubled year. Tesla has been in trouble again recently.
We learned through foreign media reports that Japan’s Sharp filed a lawsuit against Tesla. Sharp claimed that the in-vehicle communication equipment installed on Tesla’s products Model?S, Model?3 and Model?X Infringing on its patent rights, the infotainment system is also one of Tesla's biggest selling points at present, and its importance to Tesla can be imagined. Sharp is a Japanese electronics manufacturing giant and a well-known global electronics manufacturing company with a high status in the Japanese and global electronics industries.
Sharp has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court. Not only that, it has also applied to relevant departments to ban the import of Tesla electric vehicles in Japan, which includes Model S and Model 3 sedans, as well as Model? X? SUV. Neither company has commented on the above lawsuit, nor has it issued any official remarks or statements.
Although China has become one of Tesla’s largest overseas markets after the United States, Tesla’s deliveries in Japan are not large. Overseas data shows that throughout 2019, Tesla’s sales in The sales volume in Japan is only about 1,200 units. In 2019, the total sales of imported electric vehicles in Japan were 1,378 units. Tesla occupies about 90% of the market, but the market is not big. It is not even as good as the three-digit sales volume in China in one month during the off-season. one part.
However, Tesla CEO Musk attaches great importance to the Japanese market. After Tesla was launched, Asia's first sports car Roadster was given to the Japanese market, and the first Model S sedan also appeared. In the Japanese market, and Musk believes that Japan will be Tesla's second largest market, but currently, the Japanese market is not interested in imported electric vehicles from overseas.
In fact, regarding the Japanese market, American car manufacturers have been complaining that Japan has established artificial trade barriers. American cars do not perform as well as European cars in the Japanese market. This may also have a lot to do with Japan's national conditions. Compared with markets such as the United States and China, cars with large displacement and large space are not popular in the Japanese market, except for the luxury brand market. Small-displacement and compact cars are very popular in the Japanese market, which is why it is difficult for us to see many large-displacement cars on the streets of Japan. Whether Tesla can become the world's second largest sales market in the future is also debatable.
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