Autoblog: The Tesla Model S was the best-selling EV of 2015

The Tesla Model S becomes the best selling pure electric vehicle worldwide for 2015, beating the Nissan Leaf which sold about 43,000 units last year.According to numbers crunched over at Hybrid Cars , the Tesla Model S was the best selling pure electric vehicle last year with 50,366 deliveries. These numbers might not tell the whole story, since Tesla reports deliveries made in 2015 that might have been sold in a different calendar year, while other makers are tallying sales. However, it's inarguable that the Model S ended up in more worldwide driveways than the second-place Nissan Leaf, which did about 43,000 sales. In the US alone, Leaf sales were down 42.8 percent year-on-year, from 30,200 in 2014 to 17,269 last year, and that decline also increased throughout the year....