For many years, if you wanted to be an early adopter of electric vehicles (EVs), you had two choices: Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) or a vehicle that was often the butt of a joke, and more often than not, resembling a plastic toy car.

While Tesla is still highly lauded and doing great things with its vehicles, the rest of the automotive industry has made significant progress in developing desirable EVs. It's even apparent in a recent survey that had a new automaker topping Tesla in a category it had dominated only a year ago.

Let's dig into the survey, uncover what automaker topped Tesla and why, and how much it really matters for investors.

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Source Fool.com