Tesla Model S Outsold Nissan Leaf In U.S. During Q1: Report - Green Car Reports
It's one of the great frustrations for journalists in reporting on electric cars: Tesla Motors refuses to release its monthly deliveries of cars, unlike every other legitimate automaker. The company now gives a global sales total every quarter, but that doesn't help in adding accurate U. S. sales for the company to the totals provided by every other volume manufacturer of plug-in electric cars. Now IHS Automotive, a longstanding industry analyst and data provider, has released a report on the electric-car maket--and it suggests that the Tesla Model S outsold the Nissan Leaf in the U. S. market during the first quarter of this year, the... "Based on volume," says a summary of the IHS data on global electric vehicle sales (via Motor Trend ), "the most popular EV/PHEV in the U. S. is the Tesla Model S. ". The details of the analysis and its data, like much of the research from IHS... ALSO SEE: Tesla Delivers 11,500 Electric Cars Globally From April Through June, It Says. If IHS is correct, that would mean that of the 10,030 Model S cars Tesla says it delivered globally from January through March, more than 4,085 were sold in the U. S. That would represent roughly 40 percent of Tesla's global deliveries. Source: www.greencarreports.com
