The young and rich snapped the Tesla model S

After more than a year will be sold in the United States is a portrait of type person buys Tesla model S emerged.

"Is it a little younger than car buyers tend to the typical $100,000," said James Riswick with Edmunds ", tell the truth, that I'm not really surprised."

CNBC hired Edmunds to analyze vehicle registrations and online search data from June 2012-June 2013 for the model S and other high-end luxury sedans and other electric cars.

The data was disaggregated by age, income, and gender.

The conclusion: the model sold in comparison to other luxury sedans, Tesla S, a much higher percentage of men and the buyers are on average younger and richer than the buyers of competing models.

Model S vs. high-end luxury sedans

From the outset, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the model has to compete S more expensive luxury position. The first model S vehicles were built, with the largest battery life and the area of the highest prices.

Tesla established galleries in the upscale retail centers close to some of the wealthiest communities in the United States. When founded, the residual value lease guarantee set the benchmark of competing luxury brands.

So, after the sale for a year, as the model S compared to other high end luxury such as the BMW 5 series, Mercedes E-class, S-class cutting and Porsche Panamera.

Compared to these models, the buyer profile of the model S, the Porsche Panamera, which begins is closest at nearly $78,000.

"It [model S] as a Porsche Panamera is actually very similar to something a younger wealthier buyers might like because it is not designed as a comfort, it more sporty, is a snake," said Riswick.

An electric car as opposed to other

The model S is often compared engine Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF to the General, because they are the three top-selling all-electric or an enlarged range electric cars.

They are all tailored for battery-powered, but the buyer group, to win them is quite different.

"If you would a why the Chevy Volt purchase $100,000-car can afford?" It is a beautiful car, but why do not you buy Tesla model S? If you have the money, you want to buy the Tesla model S,", said Riswick.

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Young women are more likely to die in traffic accidents than men

Paul A. Eisenstein the Detroit Office 30 may 2013 to 1:00 PM ET

Young women are more likely die in a car crash as a man her age, because they are much more fragile according to a report this month by Federal safety regulators. That changed when both age, but when men reach less robust and less likely to survive a crash.

The study, authored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was not intended, to determine, what sex is more like text or speed - risky behaviours that lead to crashes, even though research has found that young men more likely to accelerate. Instead, NHTSA is trying, compare how men and women fare, if otherwise similar crashes occur.

Total women were the most vulnerable, 17 percent more likely to be killed.

Between 21 and 30 years, female drivers are 25.9 percent more are killed, based on a study of 50 years to US women who are passengers 29.2 percent even more likely rather die in a plane crash than male individuals - crashes.

349 Pages study it, that young men tend to be brawnier and their bodies are more likely to forces of a potentially fatal accident. The study also says that younger women, to wear seat belts, rather be thrown out of a car, one of the biggest causes of serious injuries.

35 Are women and men even more in terms of the probability of dying in a car accident. Female drivers have retired to a better chance of surviving than men aged 65 to 74 years.

Older female passengers are however still 11.2 percent more likely than men, killed the NHTSA found.

This is not to say that older women of less likely that die in a crash than younger women are: youth has its advantages for both sexes.

Each year by a person life, male or female, 21 years increases the risk of death about 3 percent. Other studies have found that an elderly woman died four times more likely in a crash as a 21-year-old woman.

For men, the increase is even more extreme, that could explain why the gap between men and women later in life. A 70-year-old male driver risk of death increases five-fold.

Proposed federal agency, perhaps simply reflects the fact, that "healthier seniors pursue further, while less healthy senior citizens only as passengers can ride."

The increased risk for older people has caused, auto manufacturers and regulators are looking for solutions. There were proposals for the creation of a separate crash-system of of rating to indicate how seniors in individual vehicles tariff.

Ford Motor Co. has expanded the use of a new system, combines the airbags and seat belts in a unit. The device is now offered on various Ford models including the Flex "People mover". There is an option for the middle row of the seven car, where older passengers are more likely to sit, the company says.

Tesla plans to repay fed loans a decade early

Regardless of age, deaths have fallen car dramatically in the last fifty years. Dipped after NHTSA highway deaths to 32.367 during 2011. This was minus 1.9 per cent compared with the previous year and was the lowest number since 1949 there was a slight upturn in the last year, although why remains unclear. Experts suspect that SMS might reasons during driving and mild weather.

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With the plummeting ride among young people

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More and more young people are dear to text and use e-Mail, rather than a driver's license.

By Paul A. Eisenstein, the Detroit Bureau
Almost a third of American 19 years disrupted, have received a driver's license, according to a new study, continued a decline that plugging into the American car culture finds fewer Millennials.

Instead, suggest researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, young people are replace e-mail and SMS messages for the traditional forms of socializing a set keep them wheels with friends and family in contact to get would have required.

"Virtual contact reduces the need for an actual contact," suggested Michael Spivak, co-author of the new study by the Institute. "We found that the proportion of young drivers to the availability of the Internet was connected."

The report is the latest in a series show a steady decline in the number of teens get their licenses. 1983 Skipped only 12.7 percent of these at the age of 19, that traditional rite had de passage in the United States but the figure nearly doubled to 24.5 percent 2008. The latest study involved dealing with U.S. Census and Federal Highway Administration data determine that one is still full 30.5 percent of the 19-year-old in 2010 license does not.

And report of the Institute and other research by various car manufacturers warn that the trend will continue.

"There is a pretty significant shift as people cars and transport, display in the rule are," said John McFarland, senior manager of global marketing for Chevrolet.

The trend is by no means limited to the United States. In fact researchers began raising in Japan, where a growing number of young people have decided it is easier to use, transport - also crowded trains in cities such as Tokyo - plug as sit in permanent traffic jams. In the Japanese young people among the tech Mecca were first shift to SMS as a replacement for personal contacts establish, experts suggest.

There may be other factors in the game, however. Analyst Joe Phillippi, car WebTrends consulting, believes that although modern cars more reliable than the young baby boomers sold, they do not inspire the same level of passion and commitment.

"Earlier I have always on my car, work oil change or the sparkplugs," said main. "Today's car, unless you a computer geek, not you can work."

The immediate impact for the automotive industry remains a big question. New cars buy relatively few 19 years if their parents available offer a as a gradation. Historical research, however, shows that consumers have a passion to develop, such as young people influence on what have - or if - to buy them later.

While most Americans finally have a car because of lack of transport, this lack of interest could mean that because today's young people are less when buying a new vehicle tyres interest - or its content with basic Econoboxes instead of something more expensive and well, industry experts fear.

The only area where recent research finds a connection between the teens and the automotive industry, has green alternative-energy machines. But the mediocre demand for products such as the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicle Nissan leaf suggest that this passion for eco-friendly technologies will translate into sales is not - perhaps because of the high price of battery technology.

"There is no panacea for Gen Y," said Clay Dean, extended head of design at General Motors.

Objectives Millennials - that show Chevrolet Tru 140 and Chevy code 130R - in the automatic circuit this year showed the automaker two concepts. And Dean suggests that a low-cost model could reach among young buyers market in the next few years.

The automaker has tried, Y-friendly part poorly designed domestic models even pitch as gene according to GM North America President of mark Reuss, because she believes that the newer drivers are probably less of a memory of the, the baby boomer scurry imports sent.

"they are less loyal brand", said Reuss, something the automakers use with marketing efforts as the "kickflip" has tried to display for the Chevrolet Sonic minicar of the led during the 2012 Super Bowl with a skateboarder Ron Dyrdek.

GM is their smartphones by no means not the only automakers who put hope to convince young people and lay their hands on the steering wheel. Toyota is also launching the Scion brand to attract the market latest and recent buyer. On models such as the new iQ minicar in the U.S. market for new cars the lowest average buyers gave it age - but at 35, the even more car-friendly Gen Xers aims.

And, if anything, Boomer, making more and more of the new car market. According to a survey by j.d. power and Associates, the 50 and older 62 per cent of all generated new vehicle sales 2011 to 39 percent in 2001.

That leads to traditional marketing wisdom to deal with, which says the industry should focus on the next generation of the buyer. But it is also in line with the old automotive axiom that says "can a young man sell car at an old customer, but you can no old person car sell a young buyer.",

If these young drivers at all, something new survey buy the Institute suggests that they can not do in large numbers.

If anything, they are also not as much drive, if you have a car. A study of the frontier Group April found that the average number of miles walked dangers, of which at the age of 16 to 34 by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 - up to 7,900 km a year. The national standard is between 12,000 and 15,000 miles, according to the study. And it suggests, while young people can be burned less rubber, they are run much more SMS fees.

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