GM, Ford and Chrysler are far behind Tesla in terms of BEV sales
- The major American carmakers GM, Ford, Chrysler, which were formerly called the Big Three, are far behind Tesla in terms of BEV sales volumes, when in the three major markets (China, Europe and US), battery electric vehicles represent for most governments the future of the automobile and the automobile industry.
- The global market will represent 10 million BEVs in 2023 (compared to 8 million in 2022, 5 million in 2021 and 2 million in 2020), including nearly 6 million in China, 2 million in Europe and 1.2 million in the USA.
- If the GM group was in third position globally in 2022 in terms of BEV sales (with 713,000 units), it was mainly thanks to its participation in a J.V. with the Chinese group Wuling, J.V. which alone recorded 590,000 sales, or 83% of the GM group's BEVs last year... Without Wuling, GM would have only sold 123,000 BEVs in 2022.
- The Ford group (103,000 BEV sales) is twenty-second and the former Chrysler group has not produced or sold any battery electric vehicle in 2022. Remember that Tesla has sold more than 1,500,000 BEVs in the world last year.
- On the US market, the gap between these carmakers is even more flagrant: Tesla sold 490,000 BEVs on the US market during the first 9 months of 2023, while the GM group sold only 50,000 over the same period (Wulingsbeing not sold in the USA), or 10 times less than Tesla and the Ford group 47,000. The former Chrysler group displays nearly non sales volumes.