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 These early cars were eventually withdrawn from the U.S. market.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 the Volt/Ampera family of plug-in hybrids (134,500). Tesla delivered its 200,000th Model S in the fourth quarter of 2017. About 54,715 Model S cars were sold globally in 2017. Of these, an estimated 26,500 were delivered in the United States (48.4%), its main market. After being the world's top selling plug-in car for two consecutive years, the Model S ranked in 2017 as the world's second best seller plug-in after the BAIC EC-Series city car, which sold over 78,000 units in China during 2017. , with global deliveries of about 212,874 units, the Tesla Model S continued to rank as