The Tesla Mannequin Y is the primary electrical automobile to rank because the world’s best-selling automotive.
As Motor1 stories, automotive analytics agency Jato Dynamics seemed on the best-selling vehicles within the first quarter of 2023 in 53 worldwide markets, and the Tesla Mannequin Y got here out on prime.
After rating because the third best-selling automotive on the planet final yr, behind the Toyota RAV4 and the Toyota Corolla, the Mannequin Y topped each within the first quarter of 2023 with 267,200 items offered. That is even supposing, as The Verge notes, the 2023 Mannequin Y begins at $47,490, greater than the 2023 Corolla ($21,550) and RAV4 ($27,575). The full offered determine represents a 69% year-on-year enhance for the Mannequin Y, Jato Dynamics says.
In 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed traders: “We predict Mannequin Y would be the finest promoting automotive or automobile of any type on the planet. In all probability subsequent yr. I’m not one hundred pc sure subsequent yr, however I feel it’s fairly probably… extra probably than not, that 2022 Mannequin Y is finest promoting automotive or truck… on the planet.” Whereas lacking the mark by a yr, it’s nonetheless an achievement.
In the meantime, in much less flattering information for the automaker, it was revealed that Tesla obtained 1000’s of complaints and crash stories about its Autopilot options between 2015 and 2022, which it tried to maintain hidden. Tesla informed Elektrek that it’ll provoke authorized proceedings in opposition to the leaker of the information, who it referred to as a “disgruntled ex-employee.”
