Comment by freshmatrix

I'm old enough to remember when the iMac was the best selling PC in the world*.

This was the 90s and Apple had only just narrowly avoided bankruptcy, but as they only had one model (even one colour!) of "cheap" consumer PC whereas everyone else had loads, they were by this measure the best seller.

* or the region, I forget, after all it was the 90s.

You're cherry picking by listing by model rather than by brand. This advantages Tesla in two ways.

- Tesla has very few models. The model Y is more than half of Tesla's total sales. The Seagull is less than 10% of BYD's total sales. A better metric is total sales per company by either volume or dollars.

- Tesla already sells pretty much everywhere, so don't have the "easy" option of expanding sales by expanding into other markets. OTOH, the Chinese brands are not yet widely available in several large markets.