tokens: Another record was set in 2018 , as the top 5 best selling new passenger cars that year were all plug-in electric models , with the VW e-Golf ranking second ( 7,238 ) after the Leaf , followed by the BMW i3 ( 5,687 ) , the Tesla Model X ( 4,981 ) , and the Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV ( 4,323 ) .