Global Electric Vehicle Sales By Year

It took five years to sell the first million electric cars.

Global electric vehicle sales by year.

Comparatively in 2016 just under 1 million vehicles or 1 of global auto sales came from plug in electric vehicles pevs. See more of our sales reports for may 2020 here. The main sales markets in 2019 for vw electric cars were china norway germany the usa and the united kingdom. In 2019 volkswagen s worldwide sales of electrified vehicles were 70 000 cars an increase from the 50 000 sold in 2018.

1 electric cars which accounted for 2 6 of global car sales and about 1 of global car stock in 2019 registered a 40 year on year increase. By the way plug in hybrids were down only by 9 while the all electric cars were down by 28 year over year. The growth in electric vehicles evs and hybrid electric vehicles hevs is climbing and by 2025 evs and hevs will account for an estimated 30 of all vehicle sales. Since 2013 vw electric car sales worldwide reached 250 000 vehicles.

The tesla model 3 also passed a significant milestone in 2018 becoming the first electric vehicle ev to crack the 100 000 sales mark in a single year. There was much cheering in 2018 when plug in electric vehicles evs hit a us sales record of 361 000. 53 742 for a single month and over 300 000 for the year 300 885 according to tesla. After the first five months of 2020.

Norway is the global leader in terms of electric car market share. In 2018 it took only six months. The smaller car markets continue to lead ev adoption. In 2018 the global electric car fleet exceeded 5 1 million up 2 million from the previous year and almost doubling the number of new electric car sales.

The global bev phev share for 2020 h1 is 3 so far based on sales of 989 000 units. The nissan leaf and baic ec series are both likely to surpass the 100 000 this year as well. We expect very strong uptake for the remainder of the year with sales passing the 1 million mark and monthly market shares of 7 10. Sales of electric cars topped 2 1 million globally in 2019 surpassing 2018 already a record year to boost the stock to 7 2 million electric cars.