Tesla Sold Over 40,000 Cars In China Last Year

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Tesla Sold Over 40,000 Cars In China Last Year

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As car manufacturers struggle with the downturn in China’s car sales, and some large car makers posted double-digit declines last year, Tesla’s sales have surged and rose to over 40,000 last year.

According to InsideEVs:

In 2019, the total number of Tesla registrations increased by 161% year-over-year, from 16,360 to 42,715.

Now that Tesla has plans to ramp up deliveries from its own factory, that number could rise much faster since demand already appears to be strong.

Tesla’s increase comes at a time when the world’s largest car market is struggling. With 20 million sales last year, it is still much larger than the U.S. which has hit about 17 million sales five years in a row.

China’s car sales dropped 7.8% last year to 20.7 million. Companies that include GM and Ford had sales declines which were greater.

 

 

 

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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