The main point of your
The main point of your article is correct. The Prius Prime was a relative sales winner for it's class of PHEVs. But looking at your lead-in it reads like you are saying that the Prius Prime outsold the Tesla Model 3, and that is not correct. In fact even though the Prius Prime is to be commended in selling 27,595 units in 2018, Tesla looks like they sold almost as many Model 3s in just the month of December 2018 (25,250) as Toyota did the Prius Prime for the whole year. And the Model 3's sales for all of 2018 looks to be around 139,782! With the Model 3 being such a huge sales hit for the year, it shows that it really doesn't matter that they didn't build their entry $35K model after all. So kudos to Toyota for successfully selling their PHEV Prius. It helps justify Toyota building a hybrid Corolla for the 2020 MY, and moving the Prius line to not only keep the Prime model, but to add full BEV Prius models over the next few years. When Toyota starts offering BEV Lexus models, then a real comparison of price, value, and sales numbers against the Model 3 can be made.