Recently, according to the data of the American company TrueCar (the data is the U.S. auto market), among the major automakers, Tesla is the only company that achieved a year-on-year increase in car deliveries between March 2021 and February 2022, and its sales have almost doubled.
Tesla delivered a total of 23,050 vehicles in March 2021, a 93.2% increase in deliveries in February compared to last March, while Tesla's 42,742 deliveries last month are conspicuous compared to other major automakers, as deliveries from BMW to Ford, GM, have seen a sharp year-on-year decline in deliveries, with volkswagens suffering the biggest losses from March 2021 to February 2022 Car sales fell by 44.3 percent, and the decline in car companies was even more visible: Nissan (-41.3%), Honda (-30.6%), Subaru and Ford (-27.6%) and BMW (-23.9%).
The achieved growth in Tesla's sales data may likely be attributed to consumer optimism about electric vehicles over the past year, and in addition, Tesla is one of the only major automakers that has been able to cope with semiconductor and chip shortages with relative ease, and although the company did experience production delays last year due to shortages of parts and other supply chain issues, it has had great success in solving the problem.
And in terms of quarter-on-quarter comparison, Tesla can be said to be one of the two automakers that achieved positive growth in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2021, of which Tesla sold only 69,300 units in the first quarter of 2021, but sold 127,432 vehicles in the first quarter of 2022, an increase rate of 83.9%, while the other car manufacturer Hyundai increased by 0.9% year-on-year compared with last year (delivered in the first quarter of 2022). 176,920 vehicles, 175,352 vehicles delivered in the first quarter of 2021).