Per capita turkey consumption

Tesla deliveries climbing as American turkey consumption per person falls. The Tesla owner is, statistically, eating something else for Thanksgiving. The negative correlation is two completely unrelated trends sharing a window.

Tesla deliveries went from about 50,000 vehicles in 2015 to over 1.8 million by 2022 as the Model 3 and Y volume launches scaled the business. US per-capita turkey consumption fell modestly across the same window as bird-flu disruptions, shifting protein preferences, and smaller average household sizes reduced demand. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same eight years scaled one EV transition and modestly contracted one poultry category.

The car got more popular. The bird got less so. The decade had its own dinner plans.