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No it's not. It was the most sold during March, but that's it. Local sources (https://www.autohome.com.cn/hangye/showroom/ https://www.autohome.com.cn/hangye/s

No it's not. It was the most sold during March, but that's it. Local sources (https://www.autohome.com.cn/hangye/showroom/ https://www.autohome.com.cn/hangye/showroom/) tend to show that it's Xiaomi / Geely that's leading the race in 2026. Additionally, sales numbers doesn't correlate with the brand image of Tesla : it is a luxury brand, no matter how you put it.

decimalenough 22d ago
You're talking brands, I'm talking car models. And your own source lists the Model Y as the #2 best selling model cumulatively for 2026, behind only the Geely EX2 (星愿), which is a third of the price. Also, you seem to be implying it's somehow a bad thing to have a luxury brand image with mass-market sales, but that's a pretty rare thing to pull off and it's also the key to huge margins. See also: Apple. Look, Musk is a despicable human being, but the Model 3/Y has been a ginormous hit and it transformed the global EV market. Does he deserves all the credit for pulling this off? Of course not. But you need to stick your head pretty deep in the sand to pretend that a) it was not a success, and b) that Musk had nothing at all to do with it.
dnautics 22d ago
So you're technically correct, but IIUC Tesla is still the most delivered (customers taking delivery) EV brand in China. Draw what conclusions you will from that fun fact
- manytimesaway 21d ago
  Isn't that wholesale which does not always land to customer sales? Honestly I don't know much about all of this.
  - inemesitaffia 20d ago
    It's not wholesale
handle584 21d ago
> It was the most sold during March, but that's it. Also June, and a better link for monthly sales by model from your source is https://www.autohome.com.cn/rank/1 https://www.autohome.com.cn/rank/1. Basically Model Y has been consistently in top 3 by monthly sales of EV in China so far in 2026. If you count by 3-month or 6-month periods, it is only next to Geely EX2 at 1/3 of its price as pointed out by another comment. Part of the fluctuation is due to one month of every quarter the Tesla Shanghai factory is oriented at export, so domestic number drops dramatically. HN is full of ppl claiming Chinese EV is superior in every way without realizing that Tesla is incredibly popular in Chinese domestic market.
- manytimesaway 21d ago
  Yeah that was a quick sumup based on the fact that the parent was not posting in good faith. Thanks for the precision.

decimalenough 22d ago

You're talking brands, I'm talking car models. And your own source lists the Model Y as the #2 best selling model cumulatively for 2026, behind only the Geely EX2 (星愿), which is a third of the price. Also, you seem to be implying it's somehow a bad thing to have a luxury brand image with mass-market sales, but that's a pretty rare thing to pull off and it's also the key to huge margins. See also: Apple. Look, Musk is a despicable human being, but the Model 3/Y has been a ginormous hit and it transformed the global EV market. Does he deserves all the credit for pulling this off? Of course not. But you need to stick your head pretty deep in the sand to pretend that a) it was not a success, and b) that Musk had nothing at all to do with it.

dnautics 22d ago

So you're technically correct, but IIUC Tesla is still the most delivered (customers taking delivery) EV brand in China. Draw what conclusions you will from that fun fact

manytimesaway 21d ago
Isn't that wholesale which does not always land to customer sales? Honestly I don't know much about all of this.
- inemesitaffia 20d ago
  It's not wholesale

handle584 21d ago

> It was the most sold during March, but that's it. Also June, and a better link for monthly sales by model from your source is https://www.autohome.com.cn/rank/1 https://www.autohome.com.cn/rank/1. Basically Model Y has been consistently in top 3 by monthly sales of EV in China so far in 2026. If you count by 3-month or 6-month periods, it is only next to Geely EX2 at 1/3 of its price as pointed out by another comment. Part of the fluctuation is due to one month of every quarter the Tesla Shanghai factory is oriented at export, so domestic number drops dramatically. HN is full of ppl claiming Chinese EV is superior in every way without realizing that Tesla is incredibly popular in Chinese domestic market.

manytimesaway 21d ago
Yeah that was a quick sumup based on the fact that the parent was not posting in good faith. Thanks for the precision.