Recent global electric vehicle sales numbers for June show that nothing even comes close to the Model 3. But sales numbers don’t tell the whole story. The rise of Tesla and the Model 3 can also be seen on Turo, a carsharing service that has proven to be popular for those wanting to try out an electric car. “EVs have been very successful for us,” Turo CEO Andre Haddad told me in a phone interview this past week. “A lot of people want to try the electric vehicle experience,” he said. “As Turo has scaled so Tesla has scaled,” he added. The number of Tesla listings on Turo has exploded from just 67 in 2014 to a whopping 10,485 (so far) in 2020, the company said. As of summer 2020, the majority of those listings are the Model 3. For example, in the Los Angeles area — one of the biggest EV markets in the U.S. — on a recent day there were 120 Model 3s* listed on Turo versus 62 listings for the Model S and 49 for the Model X. MORE FOR YOU