July 2 (Reuters) - Tesla said on Tuesday that its second-quarter vehicle deliveries fell about 5% from a year earlier as price cuts and incentives failed to lift demand for its aging models and Chinese rivals gained ground.

The EV maker handed over 443,956 vehicles in the three months to June 30, 4.8% lower than a year earlier and up 14.8% from the preceding quarter.

Wall Street on average had expected Tesla to deliver 438,019 vehicles, according to 12 analysts polled by LSEG. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)