Tesla April registrations drop 24% in key California market

San Francisco

REGISTRATIONS of Tesla Inc vehicles in California, by far the largest market of the luxury electric car maker, fell 24 per cent in April from a year ago, according to data from IHS Markit.

Tesla said in a statement last Friday that it was extremely misleading to look at registration data from one month, that deliveries varied month to month for operational reasons, and that deliveries increased by more than 53 per cent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier.