NEW YORK: Tesla reported a dip in full-year auto sales Thursday (Jan 2), missing a company forecast in a sign of rising electric vehicle competition in China and other major markets. Elon Musk's EV company reported 495,570 fourth-quarter deliveries, taking the full-year total to just under 1.8 million vehicles. This was about 1.1 per cent less than the 2023 sales, even as Tesla said in October that it expected a "slight growth" in vehicle deliveries for the year. The figure caps a mixed 2024