Tesla, the undisputed market leader in the U.S. electric car space, recently bloomed again, and the manufacturer accounted for about 80% of California's electric vehicle market in the first quarter of 2022, with Model 3, Model Y and Model S ranking in the top three, while Model X also ranked sixth.
According to the California Energy Commission, in the first quarter of 2022, California had 497992 new vehicles registered, of which 67,118 were pure electric vehicles, already accounting for 13.5% of the car market share, while for the whole of 2021, the state's electric vehicle share was only 9.1%, and the results of the first quarter of 2022 also show that California's share of electric vehicles will expand this year.
According to the data provided by foreign netizens, the sales leader of California's electric vehicles in the first quarter is Tesla, which occupies 78% of the California electric vehicle market, and Tesla alone has occupied 10.6% of the entire california car market.
Tesla Model 3 became the best-selling electric car in California in the first quarter, with 24375 registered units, and it also performed slightly better than its brother model Model Y, Tesla Model Y registered a total of 23117 vehicles in the first quarter, ranking second; in third place is Tesla's other model Model S, which has sold 3557 units in California; Tesla Model X ranks sixth with 1,516 registrations. As for the rest of the list, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 ranked fourth with 1959 registered vehicles, and the Ford Mach-E ranked fifth with 1664 registered vehicles.