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>At least in the North American market. (Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...)

Where do you see that conclusion, numbers from the wikipedia page:

300k Tesla 3

150K Tesla S

150k Volt

140k Leaf

110k Prius Electric

85k Tesla X

200k Other non-Tesla

Tesla is the largest single electric car seller but it's not even a majority of electric cars sold.

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The Volt and Prius Prime are plug-in hybrids, not pure electric vehicles. If you take those out (which I think was the OP's intent - driving a plug-in hybrid doesn't make you look as "green" as driving a true EV) Tesla is clearly the majority.

Fair point however that still means non-Tesla electrics are 39% of those sold. I strongly disagree that 39% is vanishingly small as the OP asserted.

A better chart than what I linked.

https://evadoption.com/ev-sales/evs-percent-of-vehicle-sales...

(The Volt isn't even a pure electric, so now I regret linking that wiki page.)

That chart shows Tesla at 54% which while a majority is just barely so. So I still strongly disagree with your statement that 46% of sales is "vanishingly small" as you asserted in your original post.

Uh-huh. Name another brand that even breaks 10% of the market.

Your argument was that people pick Tesla due to reason X and do so with overwhelming majority. That means your argument is Tesla-vs-everything else combined NOT Tesla-vs-another specific competitor. Your own data shows that at best 50% of buyers choose based on reason X while the rest do so for other reasons. I don't consider 50% to be an overwhelming majority or vanishingly small.

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