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 These early cars were eventually withdrawn from the U.S. market.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 in the Danish market, the Model S was the top selling electric vehicle with 42 units sold. Sales were 112 units in 2013 and 460 in 2014. Model S sales constituted 35% of the sales of luxury cars by mid 2014. A Model S was tested as a taxi, but high price and low range made the project uneconomical. When the AWD model was announced in Autumn 2014, used Model S were sold fast at high price. In October 2015, the Danish Parliament approved to phase out the tax exemption for electric vehicles, and customers rushed to order the Model