Tesla Still Dominates the US Electric Car Market, and It's Not Even Close

New registration data shows Tesla still dominates the US electric car market, and it’s not even close. Something has to be broken to accelerate EV adoption in the country.

For many years, Tesla has dominated the electric auto market in its home country. It is expected that Tesla’s grip on the market will be eroded as more EV options take a hit and help the US market grow, but for now, the US EV market is still heavily dependent on Tesla.

For the full year of 2020, Tesla vehicles accounted for 79% of new electric vehicles registered in the US.

Now new data has emerged for 2021 as part of a new report based on registration data from Experian, and Tesla is slightly below what was expected. But, the company still holds a strong majority of EV market shares in the United States.

According to the report, Tesla still holds a 69.95% EV market share in the United States, with Nissan in second place with 8.51%:

Tesla is a leader in EV sales in every state except Alaska, where the automaker hasn’t opened a service center yet, but it recently launched its first supercharger in the state.

As you can see, all other automakers have a lot to do.

Fortunately, many of them have new EVs launching in the United States this year, and we expect many companies, especially Ford and VW, to increase their EV market shares in 2022.

The U.S. will need those other automakers to ramp things up because, as you can see above, EV adoption rates are still terrible in much of the country.

But Tesla isn’t going to slow down either. The automaker is expanding production at the Fremont factory and starting production at the Gigafactory Texas. While some additional production is being exported, Tesla is still expected to grow in the United States.

As we reported earlier this month, Tesla is seeing an increase in its order rate in many parts of the United States following a significant increase in gas prices.

According to Tesla’s delivery timeline for new orders, the automaker is still enjoying some huge backlogs for nearly every version of each model.

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