{"id":48337,"date":"2023-04-27T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48337"},"modified":"2023-04-27T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:03:29","slug":"tesla-leads-california-passes-1-million-fully-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48337","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Has Solid Lead As California Passes 1 Million Fully Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

While most automakers are ramping up their EV efforts, Tesla still maintains a notable lead in most markets. With the release of California’s Q1 2023 zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales report, this fact couldn’t be more obvious, and it makes rivals’ prospects of soon surpassing Tesla seem increasingly far-fetched.<\/p>\n

Tesla<\/a> sells a large number of EVs in the US, and a notable percentage of them are sold in California. This has been the case for years, and while many other states are starting to see a huge increase in Tesla sales and the sale of competing EVs<\/a>, California is still a global leader in the segment.<\/p>\n

According to the Golden State’s recently released ZEV sales report, which was shared on Twitter by Sawyer Merritt<\/em>, over 1 million fully electric cars have been sold in California since the state began keeping track. Nearly 100,000 of those EVs were sold during Q1 2023, and, to no surprise, a large percentage were produced by Tesla.<\/p>\n

We recently reported that California already hit the milestone of 1.5 million EVs sold two years ahead of schedule, which is true. However, that number also includes plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs), not just fully electric cars or battery-electric vehicles (BEVs).<\/p>\n

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Tesla dropped its prices at the end of 2022 and has continued the trend into 2023. The price reduction caused a spike in demand for its vehicles, and sales soared. The Tesla Model Y<\/a> was the clear leader for Q1 2023, with sales over six times higher than the next best-selling non-Tesla BEV.<\/p>\n

The US EV maker sold over 33,000 Model Y crossovers in California in the first quarter of 2023. Its smaller sibling, the Model 3<\/a>, saw just south of 20,000 units sold. Meanwhile, Model S<\/a> and Model X<\/a> sales for the same period came in at 3,101 and 887, respectively.<\/p>\n

Some other fully electric vehicles saw over 2,000 units sold, surpassing the Tesla Model X, but not any of Tesla’s other models. According to Teslarati<\/em>, notable rivals include the Chevrolet Bolt EV<\/a>\/EUV<\/a>, BMW i4<\/a>, Ford Mustang Mach-E<\/a>, Polestar 2<\/a>, and Volkswagen ID.4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the end, over 21% of all vehicle sales in California in Q1 2023 were light-duty zero-emission vehicles. However, it’s important to note that this percentage not only includes BEVs, but also PHEVs, and fuel cell vehicles (FCEV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While most automakers are ramping up their EV efforts, Tesla still maintains a notable lead in most markets. With the release of California’s Q1 2023 zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales report, this fact couldn’t be more obvious, and it makes rivals’ prospects of soon surpassing Tesla seem increasingly far-fetched. Tesla sells a large number of EVs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}