Global Electric Vehicle Sales By Year

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

Global electric vehicle sales by year.

Sales started strong in 2019 but declined beginning in july. Norway is the global leader in terms of electric car market share. Global plug in electric car sales december 2019 models rank the tesla model 3 set new all time sales records. After the first five months of 2020.

The main sales markets in 2019 for vw electric cars were china norway germany the usa and the united kingdom. 53 742 for a single month and over 300 000 for the year 300 885 according to tesla. 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. In 2019 volkswagen s worldwide sales of electrified vehicles were 70 000 cars an increase from the 50 000 sold in 2018.

The nissan leaf and baic ec series are both likely to surpass the 100 000 this year as well. 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. 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. Comparatively in 2016 just under 1 million vehicles or 1 of global auto sales came from plug in electric vehicles pevs.

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. Since 2013 vw electric car sales worldwide reached 250 000 vehicles. The global bev phev share for 2020 h1 is 3 so far based on sales of 989 000 units. 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.

See more of our sales reports for may 2020 here. The smaller car markets continue to lead ev adoption. 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. In 2018 it took only six months.