Tesla vehicles deliveredUS per capita peanut butter consumption
Tesla deliveries and American peanut-butter consumption, climbing together. The PB&J is not, statistically, a Tesla feature. The Tesla cabin does not, technically, have a snack drawer. The lines proceed undeterred.
Tesla deliveries went from about 50,000 vehicles in 2015 to over 1.8 million in 2023 as the EV transition and the Model 3/Y volume launches scaled the business. US per-capita peanut-butter consumption climbed from about 3.4 to 3.7 pounds per person across the same window, lifted by the protein-trend tailwind, almond-butter substitution backwash, and the snacking-as-meals shift. Two unrelated category growth stories sharing a decade because the 2010s grew nearly every category that was already half-loved. Common decade, separate jars.
Most things grew in the 2010s. The exceptions made the news. The peanut butter mostly didn't.
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