Fig. 4: Tesla and electric vehicle market trends, globally and in the United States. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 4: Tesla and electric vehicle market trends, globally and in the United States.

From: Liberals are less willing to buy Teslas than other electric vehicles, moderated by perceptions of Elon Musk

Fig. 4: Tesla and electric vehicle market trends, globally and in the United States.

a compares Tesla sales and all EV sales (in terms of units sold), in the United States (Kelley Blue Book 2020a, b, 2021a, b, c, d, 2022a, b, c, d, 2024a, b, c, d) and globally (International Energy Agency IEA (2024); Kane 2024a, b; Kolodny, 2025; Statista, 2025). b compares price trends in Tesla stock (Yahoo Finance, 2025) and the Standard & Poors (S&P) Kensho Electric Vehicles index (Standard and Poors S&P Global (2025)). Dashed lines in panels a and b denote the end of 2022 Quarter 1, when Elon Musk’s offer to purchase Twitter became public (Subin, 2022). c shows the shares of U.S. Tesla buyers having different political affiliations in Strategic Vision polls (Higgins, 2024). (Christopher Chaney from Strategic Vision clarified the reported numbers in a personal communication). d shows percentages of Democrats and Republicans willing to buy Teslas from a monthly series of Morning Consult polls reported in the Wall Street Journal (Peterson and McLain, 2025).

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