The electric vehicle market made big gains in 2019 across multiple car manufacturers and the industry has even bigger plans for the years to come.
Electric cars sales by year.
Rivian for example closed out the year.
At the first half of 2019 4601 new bev were sold representing 1 5 of the overall sales.
Alternative power vehicles have been on the market for 20 years now.
These models are now well established and have proven reliability.
Sales of plug in electric vehicles pevs grew rapidly from 2011 to 2018.
Clean technica has published data showing the best selling electric vehicle models in the united states in the first half of 2020 with tesla s model 3 having close to five times as many sales as.
Until 2018 the chevrolet volt had been on the market the longest and had the most overall.
With an electric vehicle you can skip the gas station entirely.
The country wants evs to account for about 20 of the annual new.
Porsche s first battery electric car arrives to take on the tesla model s.
And with advancements in ev technology over the past several years many electric vehicle models are capable of running well over 100 miles on a single charge.
By the way plug in hybrids were down only by 9 while the all electric cars were down by 28 year over year.
These cars are equipped with electric motors and re chargeable batteries that allow them to run exclusively on electric power.
There was much cheering in 2018 when plug in electric vehicles evs hit a us sales record of 361 000.
After the first five months of 2020.
Maybe it s time to make the switch to an all electric vehicle.
See more of our sales reports for may 2020 here.
Of the latter only 350 units were sold to individuals.
Then sales of new battery electric vehicles bev rose from 1358 in 2015 to 3647 in 2018.
Sales of electric cars rose from 97 units in 2009 to 116 in 2010 425 in 2011 to 900 in 2012.
China took the plug in vehicle market by storm with approximately 645 000 units sold in the first half of 2019 alone ev volumes according to china electric car statistics the sleeping giant remains unchallenged in terms of plug in vehicle sales the strong ev adoption in china is said to be the result of climate concerns.