History of the electric vehicle Model X, together with several variants of the Tesla Model S line-up. The Tesla Model 3 was unveiled on 31 March 2016. With pricing starting at and an all-electric range of , the Model 3 is Tesla Motors first vehicle aimed for the mass market. Before the unveiling event, over 115,000 people had reserved the Model 3. , one week after the event, Tesla Motors reported over 325,000 reservations, more than triple the 107,000 Model S cars Tesla had sold by the end of 2015. These reservations represent potential sales of over . , Tesla Motors has sold almost 125,000
Plug-in electric vehicles in the United States Fusion Energi with 15,938, and the Nissan Leaf with 14,006. The top five best-selling models in the U.S. accounted for about 65% of total plug-in cars in 2016. Sales in 2017 were led by the Tesla Model S with about 26,500 units, the top selling plug-in car for the third year running, followed by the Chevrolet Bolt (23,297), Tesla Model X (~21,700), Toyota Prius Prime (20,936), and the Chevrolet Volt (20,349), together accounting for 58% of total sales in 2017. During 2011, all-electric cars (10,064 units) oversold plug-in hybrids (7,671 units), but increased Volt sales, together with the introduction of