That's myopically complacent; 20 years ago some car makers probably said the same thing: bah, Musk doesn't know how to make cars. Now something like every other new car on North American roads is a Tesla.
That battery marker is probably toast.
That battery marker is probably toast.
That’s not even close to being true. Toyota, alone, sold more vehicles in the US than Tesla did globally.
https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-vehicle-production-...
https://pressroom.toyota.com/?generate_pdf=91364
Perhaps you meant electric vehicles? Which your statement about count sold more accurate, but overall sentiment, still off.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/30/one-out-of-every-8-cars-sold-...
(toyota 15% tesla 13%)
But toyotas numbers transfer to rest of the US.
I think what people read is that model 3 and model y are the best selling cars in california:
https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/Scree...
but if you look closer tesla only sells one car in the segment, while toyota "competes with itself" with camry+corolla > model 3, and same with honda's accord+civic > model 3
Source? I could see that being true for EVs, but I can't see it being true for all cars in general.