** Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla TSLA.O down 4.6% at $256.1 in premarket trading
** Tesla reported deliveries of 336,681 vehicles in Q1; analysts estimated deliveries of 372,410 vehicles, according to an average estimate of 15 analysts from Visible Alpha, who lowered their forecasts in the past 30 days
** Tesla's deliveries down 13% in Q1 vs a drop of 8.5% in Q1 last year
** The company handed over 323,800 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in Q1 vs 369,783 units in the same period, a year earlier
** Tesla's sales in key European markets fell again in March, data showed on Tuesday
** It's sales of China-made vehicles fell 11.5% in March from a year earlier, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association
** Up to last close, stock had fallen ~33.5% this year
(Reporting by Akash Sriram and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru)
((Akash.Sriram@thomsonreuters.com; https://twitter.com/hoodieonveshti;))
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