, but there’s a chart I haven’t thought to make that Bloomberg recently created, and it’s a superb chart for some of the claims circling at the moment.
Sales have dropped quite a lot for one notable company. Tesla. And there are a variety of potential reasons for that. There’s the one: “Decline in volumes was partially due to the early phase of the production ramp of the updated Model 3 at our Fremont factory….” There’s also the fact that Elon Musk’s tweets over the past couple of years have massively dented consumer interest in Teslas from a large portion of the American public.
Because Tesla’s sales account for such a large portion of US EV sales, Tesla trends guide overall EV trends. However, this graph shows that, counter to Tesla’s story, Hyundai/Kia, Ford, Toyota, Rivian, Mercedes and BMW all saw great than 50% EV sales growth in the US last quarter!