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Tesla Motors Inc. sold more electric cars in the U.S. then anyone else in 2015, a feat made a little bit easier because competitor Nissan Motor Co. is working on a complete do-over for its best-selling EV, the Leaf.
Cost-estimating website HowMuch.net did a chart that visually illustrates Tesla’s dominance in the electric-car arena, ranking the Model S’s 24 competitors from the second-place Leaf all the way down to the 25th-place Volvo XC90, which sold only 86 units in 2015:
In 2014, the Leaf, which starts at $29,000, handily beat the Tesla TSLA, -0.58% Model S, which starts around $70,000. A little over 30,000 Leafs were sold that year, compared with almost 19,000 Model S cars, according to Insideevs.com.
Nissan 7201, -0.59% has said it is working on a new battery system that could double the Leaf’s driving range. The 2016 Leaf can go up to 107 miles on a single charge, which was an improvement over the 2015 model and made some buyers think twice about buying a Leaf in 2015.
A basic Model S goes 240 miles on a single charge.
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