The EV maker is slated to report first-quarter sales data Wednesday morning. Wall Street expects just under 380,000 vehicles. The number reported probably won’t be that high...

BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. automaker Tesla sold 78,828 China-made electric vehicles in March, down 11.5% from a year earlier, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Wednesday. Deliveries of China-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles increased 156.9% from the previous month. Chinese rival BYD, with its Ocean and Dynasty EV and plug-in hybrid lineup, saw passenger vehicle sales up 23.1% year-on-year to 371,419 units last month...

Wall Street is bracing for Tesla to report a drop in first-quarter vehicle deliveries on Wednesday, but analysts and investors cannot agree on how bad the decline would be. An average of 15 analysts who lowered their forecasts in the past 30 days expect deliveries to drop 3.7%, according to Visible Alpha, but some analysts and investors termed it conservative and predicted as much as 12% slide. CEO Elon Musk has pledged a return to growth after Tesla's annual deliveries dipped last year, but waning demand for its aging line up of electric vehicles and a backlash against his political stance could make that promise a hard one to keep...