Our friends across the Atlantic have been loving Tesla as of late.
Elon Musk’s EV company saw its sales surge to a total of 480,000 cars delivered worldwide between April and June of this year, a figure bolstered by renewed European interest in its vehicles. The uptick is a whopping 25 percent increase from the second quarter of 2025, The New York Times reported.
That number far surpassed analysts’ estimates, which had predicted Tesla‘s delivery total to come in around 406,000, according to the company. The Model 3 and the Model Y (at one point the world’s best-selling vehicle) far and away lead the charge, with around 97 percent of sales consisting of one of the two models, per Yahoo Finance. The EV maker plans to produce 6,200 Model Ys per week starting in July, one of the company’s executives wrote on LinkedIn. Sales of other Tesla models, like the Cybertruck, added up to just around 3 percent of the total; the company had previously said it planned to sell 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, but has fallen far short of that goal so far.
Europeans paved the way for Tesla’s surprising success. In the first five months of 2026, E.U. sales rose by 77 percent year-over-year to 89,000, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. Consumers there had a strong reaction to Musk’s association with President Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which caused 2025 sales to sour.
