Tesla Model 3 was the best-selling car in the United Kingdom in April, while total UK new car sales plunged by 97.3 percent year on year to the lowest level since 1946, due to the lockdown in the country to curb the spread of COVID-19. Car sales in the UK plunged to just 4,321 vehicles in April, down from 161,064 cars sold in the same month last year, according to data from the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The April 2020 new car registrations hit their lowest level since immediately after World War II, in 1946. In this distorted market statistics for April 2020, Tesla Model 3 was the best-selling car in the UK with 658 Model 3s sold, ahead of 367 new car registrations for Jaguar I-Pace and 264 new Vauxhall Corsas sold. According to Arstechnica’s Timothy B. Lee , the top performance by Tesla’s […]