Visitors wearing face masks check a China-made Tesla Model Y sport utility vehicle at the electric vehicle maker's showroom in BeijingSHANGHAI - Tesla's best-selling Model Y was included in a list of electric and plug-in hybrid models that a local government in China can purchase as a service car, according to the official Chinese media outlet the Paper on Thursday.
Apart from the Model Y made in Tesla's Shanghai factory and Volvo Cars' XC40, the other 54 batches were all Chinese-branded EVs and hybrids. Volvo Cars is owned by Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.Neither the government nor the Chinese media specified the number of Model Y cars that the Jiangsu provincial government could buy.
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