Electric car Delco. These early cars were eventually withdrawn from the U.S. market. California electric automaker Tesla Motors began development in 2004 on what would become the Tesla Roadster (2008), which was first delivered to customers in 2008. The Roadster was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than per charge. Tesla global sales passed 250,000 units in September 2017. The Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance achieved the milestone of 500,000 units electric vehicles sold in October 2017. Tesla sold its 200,000th Model S in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Tesla Model S August 2013. In comparison, the average in the United States was about 1,630 units delivered per month since the electric car went on sales in 2012. , Norway continued as the second largest Model S market by volume, with about 9.4% of cumulative global sales. After a stagnant year of 4,000 plus deliveries for 2015, deliveries of Tesla dropped 54% in the first quarter and 52% in the second quarter of 2016 in Norway. Tesla Model S registrations in Norway totaled 2,051 new units in 2016 and 3,712 in 2017. Since its introduction, a total of 15,825 new Model S