





Tesla slowly appearing to justify the amount of column inches, tweets and general bravado it has attracted over the past few years? The fact that, according to AID research and official data supplied by Tesla and Tata Motors - the Indian owner of Jaguar - Tesla delivered more vehicles globally than Jaguar during the opening three quarters of the year, suggests perhaps slowly they might be



During this year’s third quarter Tesla’s global deliveries almost doubled that of Jaguar’s retail sales totalling 83,500 and 41,940 respectively according to data supplied by both manufacturers.



This is the first time Tesla has outpaced a relatively major premium car manufacturer in terms of global deliveries.



AID research also identified that Porsche fell behind Tesla during this year’s third quarter.



Porsche recorded 69,962 third quarter sales globally, while year-to-date the German luxury car manufacturer still remains ahead with 196,562 global sales, an increase of 5.7 per cent over last year compared with Tesla’s 154,220 opening three quarters deliveries.







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