Tesla is winning, and the Detroit News calls out Farley for his comparisons:
The Model Y is passing some household names along the way. Ford, for example, sold around 562,000 F-150 pickups last year. It looks like Tesla's SUV probably overtook the truck in the third quarter and should come out ahead for the full year.
While Ford has recently upped its EV game, this change in hierarchy has to be a bit jarring for its executives, one of which publicly mocked Musk in 2018 by noting his company was making roughly the same number of cars in four hours that Tesla was in a week.
Bloomberg NEF estimates Tesla has sold over 500,000 Model Ys this year, putting it on pace for almost 800,000 in 2022, enough to place among the top five best-sellers in the world.