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It Looks Like Tesla Need To Increase Electric Car Sales Rapidly

Electric car manufacturer Tesla closed the year by announcing the last quarter of 2015 financial report. Tesla reported that it sold 17,400 electric cars in the fourth quarter of 2015. When including the other three-quarters of 2015, Tesla sold 50,580 electric vehicles in 2015.

Owen Castellanos
Owen CastellanosHardware & Gaming Reporter
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It Looks Like Tesla Need To Increase Electric Car Sales Rapidly

Electric car manufacturer Tesla closed the year by announcing the last quarter of 2015 financial report.Tesla reported that it sold 17,400 electric cars in the fourth quarter of 2015.

When including the other three-quarters of 2015, Tesla sold 50,580 electric vehicles in 2015. 17,192 of the 17,400 was Model S and variations.In addition, unit sales in the fourth quarter are 48 percent higher than the 11 603 units sold in the third quarter and 75 percent higher than sales in the fourth quarter 2014.

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Tesla Planned to sell cars between 17 and 19 thousand in 2015 each quarter but to take part in the final quarter, slightly above the target must be disappointing for the company. The new SUV Tesla Model X sold 208 units in the fourth quarter of 2015. And Tesla announced that remaining 507 Model X is ready to deliver to customers in the coming quarters.

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Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

Hardware & Gaming Reporter

Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.

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