3 Jan, 2023 @ 15:00
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Tesla Model 3 best selling EV in Spain

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THE Tesla Model 3 has become the best selling electric vehicle in Spain.

And the company’s Model Y is in third place, with just one car fewer sold than the  Fiat 500E .

According to data from EU-EVs, 2,677 Model 3s were sold in Spain in 2022, with 1,866 Fiat 500Es ordered.

In fourth place is the Kia Niro with 1,513 sales. Citroen E-C4 was the fifth biggest seller with 1,418 units.

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Tesla is top seller. Photo: Adobe Stock

These figures are relatively low compared to the overall market (including conventional engined models). In 2022 there were 813,396 registrations in Spain, the lowest annual volume since 2013 (723,936), with December sales down 14.1% to 73,927 units.

The best selling model was the Hyundai Tucson, with  20,425 sales, followed by the Dacia Sandero (18,211).

Plug-in electric cars make up about 10% of the market.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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