After writing about Tesla’s 10% drop in sales in the UK despite the UK EV market rising 24%, and BYD passing up Tesla in the UK in annual sales last year, a reader pointed out some extra jaw-dropping stats. The reader, “manes,” posted the numbers for Tesla in Germany in … [continued]
I had seen stories about Elon Musk’s political interference in the UK turning people off to buying Teslas, but I had also seen Tesla fans highlighting Tesla growth in the UK in some months. So, even in the midst of severely dropping Tesla sales in Germany and Europe more broadly, … [continued]
Tesla has released its 4th quarter and 2025 vehicle delivery data. It was strange a few days ago that the company released consensus Wall Street analyst estimates of its coming 2025 delivery numbers. I questioned why Tesla would start doing so, and wondered if it was to try to get … [continued]
BYD is the new global EV sales champion, as Tesla has fallen to second place. BYD expects sales growth to continue in 2026.
As Steve Hanley explained earlier today, Tesla has published Wall Street analyst estimates of Tesla vehicle deliveries and energy storage deployments for the first time ever on its investor relations site. These are consensus estimates from 20 Wall Street firms combined. When I first saw news of this, I thought … [continued]
Tesla has put out a press release warning its deliveries of new cars will be lower in the fourth quarter and for the year than expected.
Following up on the article I wrote a few days ago about BYD having 20% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales globally and Tesla having 12% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales, I wanted to figure out the same kind of figures for fully electric vehicle (BEV) sales. Naturally, I had to … [continued]
We’ve been logging a handful of big EV statistics lately, but one nearly snuck under our noses. It’s an amazing one, and it also brings us back to a years-long rivalry. But I’ll wait until the end to circle back to that. First of all, thanks to reader Madan Rajan, … [continued]
2024 was the year Tesla’s long-term story changed dramatically. Instead of growing, growing, growing … well, just write that 12 times in total … 2024 was the year Tesla saw an annual sales decline. It was the first time since the Model S was released that Tesla’s sales dropped year … [continued]
I recently dove into EV sales trends across auto groups and auto brands in 13 European markets (combined) using charts and data from EU-EVs.com. I’ve used the site off and on for years. I rely more on José’s comprehensive European EV sales reports, but there are ways of viewing data … [continued]
