BYD becomes the world's leading manufacturer of electric cars in 2017
- The world market for electric passenger cars and plug-in hybrids surpassed a million annual sales for the first time, with a volume of 1.1 million units in 2017, compared to 740,000 units in 2016 and 548,000 units in 2015. The evolution is 48% in 2017 compared to 2016, and 35% in 2016 compared to 2015. Of the 1,103,000 units in 2017, 734,000 units are 100% electric (+ 58%) and 369,000 are rechargeable hybrids (+ 35%).
- The world's largest market for electric and plug-in hybrids remains China (580,000 sales in 2017 against 340,000 in 2016), ahead of Europe (272,000 sales against 220,000 in 2016), the United States (196,000 sales against 159,000 in 2016) and Japan (54,000 sales compared to 22,000 in 2016).
- In Japan, it was the arrival on the market of the Toyota Prius PHEV that doubled sales in 2017 compared to 2016.
- The world's leading electric car group in 2017 is Chinese BYD (106,000 sales), ahead of Renault-Nissan (105,000 sales), BAIC (98,000 sales), Tesla (94,000 sales), BMW (82,000 sales), Zotye (66,000 sales) and Volkswagen (63,000 sales). These seven manufacturers sell 56% of all electric and plug-in hybrid cars in the world. The distribution by models over the 12 months 2017 is not yet known, but the figures on 11 months of 2017 show that the best-selling model over the whole year could be the BAIC E-Series, ahead of the Tesla Model S.
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