{"id":164570,"date":"2023-05-26T04:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worlds-best-selling-car-first-ev-to-do-so"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:22:29","slug":"tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worlds-best-selling-car-first-ev-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worlds-best-selling-car-first-ev-to-do-so","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model Y is now the world\u2019s best-selling car, first EV to do so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worlds-best-selling-car-first-ev-to-do-so2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Model Y was the world\u2019s best-selling car in Q1 2023, marking the first time ever that an EV has achieved this feat, according to industry analyst JATO Dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Model Y sales have been growing around the world for the last few years, putting the car on the trajectory to become the world\u2019s best-selling vehicle. The feat was first predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/08\/04\/tesla-anticipates-demand-for-the-model-y-to-land-between-500000-to-1-million-units-per-year\/\">even before the car came to market<\/a>, as Tesla thought the car could see up to a million units of demand per year.<\/p>\n<p>It was an ambitious goal at the time, with many considering it another example of an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/04\/20\/elon-musk-tesla-achieve-full-autonomy-this-year-but-what-does-it-mean\/\">optimistic<\/a>\u201d Tesla prediction, but last year Tesla said the Model Y was <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/08\/05\/tesla-model-y-on-track-worlds-best-selling-car\/\">on track to become the world\u2019s best-selling car<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla Model Y was the world\u2019s best-selling car in Q1 2023, marking the first time ever that an EV has achieved this feat, according to industry analyst JATO Dynamics. Model Y sales have been growing around the world for the last few years, putting the car on the trajectory to become the world\u2019s best-selling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}