The Nissan Leaf may be the world's best-selling EV in the world but in the US, the top spot belongs to the Tesla Model S sedan for Q1 2015. But Tesla is still quiet about how many units they have managed to sell.
"Based on volume, the most popular EV/PHEV in the U.S. is the Tesla Model S," an IHS Automotive study said last week.
The study cited data from new electric vehicle registrations from different markets around the world during the first quarter of the year.
Even though the luxury EV leads the pack, the market share of all electric vehicles in the US remains low at 0.8 percent, up by 0.2 percent over the same period last year, according to Motor Trend.
By contrast, the study said EVs in the UK and the Netherlands had a 1.2 percent and 5.7 percent market share, respectively. Norway comes out on top with 33.1 percent.
But with 14,832 new EVs registered in Q1 2015, the US still leads the pack in terms of total number of new registrations. China followed at 12,555 and the UK at 8,684.
However, both the IHS study and the Palo Alto, Calif.-based automaker didn't reveal how many units of the Tesla Model S sedan were registered in the US. Forbes contacted IHS who reportedly said that "total Tesla new registrations in the US were 5,813" for the first quarter of the year.
"That said, the number handily beats sales of the Nissan Leaf in the US in the first three months of the year," Forbes said.
As per Inside EVs monthly sales charts, 4,085 units of the Nissan Leaf were sold in that period. Forbes added that 10,045 Model S sedans were delivered globally in Q1 2015, according to Tesla.
In an update from earlier this month, the EV maker said 11,507 Tesla Model S sedan deliveries were made in Q2 2015, up from 52 percent over last year which set a new quarterly record for Tesla in the process.
