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Tesla owners are overwhelmingly men, and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, one study found.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Overall, not surprised.

Couple of points I noticed were missing:

  1. No race-related data was reported regarding the Model 3.
  2. No data at all from the Model Y.

These are their most affordable models, so I’m reading this article in terms of the Model X & Model S, and not every owner. The data did say that the Model 3 was predominantly male-owned, and I expected nothing less from a car marketed as a sports car.

A state that was once identified as “Camry California”, the Model Y exceeding Camry sales in the state is a big enough deal to include that data to qualify an article that describes all Tesla owners.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It's consistent with the idea that mostly tech workers buy Teslas. It does not really sell to people outside this demographic.

[–] ijeff 3 points 1 year ago

Interestingly, I think only one of the countless Tesla owners I know works in tech.

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