Henry Ford over to his son Edsel Ford in December 1918. Henry retained final decision authority and sometimes reversed the decisions of his son. Ford started another company, Henry Ford and Son, and made a show of taking himself and his best employees to the new company; the goal was to scare the remaining holdout stockholders of the Ford Motor Company to sell their stakes to him before they lost most of their value. (He was determined to have full control over strategic decisions.) The ruse worked, and Ford and Edsel purchased all remaining stock from the other investors, thus giving the
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