Tesla’s Cumulative Car Gross sales Surpass 9 Million — And It Turns into #1 BEV Vendor Once more

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Tesla’s automobile gross sales have declined lately, and are principally stagnant in a very good quarter today. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless one of many high EV sellers on the earth. Truly, information is that it took again the title of #1 from BYD within the first quarter of 2026 after BYD had a really poor quarter that noticed its gross sales drop by about 25%.

Additionally, with virtually a decade and a half of car gross sales (nicely, not counting the low-volume Roadster), the corporate is nearing 10 million cumulative automobile gross sales. In whole, by the tip of Q1 2026, Tesla reached 9,240,944 cumulative automobile gross sales.

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Breaking down cumulative gross sales by mannequin, utilizing estimates since Tesla doesn’t present actual model-by-model gross sales figures, we are able to see under that the Mannequin 3 reached 3,362,035 cumulative gross sales and the Mannequin Y reached 5,058,074 cumulative gross sales. In truth, the Mannequin Y will need to have been the primary electrical automobile mannequin to succeed in half 1,000,000 cumulative gross sales!

So, sure, the corporate is just not doing in addition to it as soon as was, and it’s not doing almost as nicely because it was imagined to be doing primarily based on Elon Musk’s forecasts over time, however it’s nonetheless one of many core leaders within the EV transition and is approaching a monumental 10 million cumulative automobile gross sales.