Global electric car sales in 2019
- In 2019, the global market for electric cars, meaning Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) shows an increase of 9.5% compared to 2018, at 2,209,831 units, compared to 2,018,247 units in 2018 and 1,188,059 in 2017. It should be noted that this increase in sales was achieved while the global automotive market declined by more than 4% in 2019.
- By country, China remains by far the largest market for electric cars (1,177,421 units; + 6.8%), getting 53% of world sales of this type of car, ahead of Europe (564,206 units; +46 %) and USA (318,296 units; -11.3%).
- USA has seen its sales declining due to an energy policy that does not push consumers to purchase electric cars, while Tesla (the world's leading manufacturer of electric cars) is an American brand ...
- Tesla sold 367,820 units in the world in 2019 (compared to 245,240 in 2018). The Californian brand is ahead of BYD (229,506 units against 227,364 in 2018), Renault-Nissan (183,299 against 192,711 in 2018), BAIC (160,251 against 164,958 in 2018), BMW (143,454 against 141,311 in 2018) , SAIC (137,666 against 108,624 in 2018), Hyundai-Kia (126,436 against 90,860 in 2018), Geely (121,802 against 85,810 in 2018) and Volkswagen (106,645 against 72,366 in 2018).
- By model, the Tesla Model 3 is the best-selling electric car in the world in 2019 (300,075 units against 145,846 in 2018), ahead of the BAIC EC / EU Series (111,047 against 90,637 in 2018), Nissan Leaf ( 69,873 against 87,149 in 2018), BYD Yuan (67,839 against 35,699 in 2018), Baojun E100 (60,050 against 25,888 in 2018) and BMW 5 Series PHEV (51,083 against 40,260 in 2018).
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