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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil and Jonathan Prynn

Tesla sales slump sees China's BYD overtake Elon Musk's electric car firm in Britain

Tesla sales fell more than a third in May allowing China’s BYD to overtake Elon Musk’s electric car company in the UK, new figures reveal.

They show Tesla registrations dropped 36% to 2,016 last month, compared to 3,152 a year ago, with its share of the overall market falling from 2.13% to 1.34%.

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