Morgan Korn/ABC NewsBY: MORGAN KORN, ABC NEWS
(NEW YORK) — It’s the dilemma every automaker is frantically trying to solve: Convincing Americans to give up gas-powered cars for electric vehicles.
The barriers are diverse. There’s range anxiety. A lack of nationwide chargers. Steep prices. A general bewilderedness of what an electric vehicle is and how it works.
Tesla, of course, has dominated the burgeoning electric vehicle market since its curvy, high-tech Model S sedan launched in June 2012.
Even with the introduction of EVs from European and from mainstream brands — General Motors, Nissan, Audi, Jaguar, Audi, Hyundai — Tesla continues to outsell the competition. In fact, four of the five bestselling EVs in the U.S. are Teslas.