The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 33.7% share in Germany, up from 26.6% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year, and PHEV share grew modestly. Overall Q1 auto volume was 699,377 units, up some 5% YoY. The Skoda Elroq was the best-selling BEV in ... [continued]
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It’s been a popular topic lately to write about China’s EV sales slump in 2026, growing EV exports from China, and various policy changes and even controversies related to that. But there’s much more going on that isn’t typically acknowledged. First of all, note that while China’s EV sales are ... [continued]
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Latin America’s small champion is breaking all expectations. Uruguay surpassed Costa Rica as the regional leader in 2025, reaching an impressive 20% BEV market share for the whole year, up from 8.5% in 2024. 2026 has seen the continuation of high growth levels in the Uruguayan market, bringing the yearly ... [continued]
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The Japanese car industry has been slated for partially protecting its own interests, primarily by supporting hybrid cars—when only full electrification will start to satisfy ‘soft on China’ eco-zealots.
A year ago, on this very site, we reported that all our previous EV sales articles for Mexico were wrong, and that we had been underestimating numbers for as long as we had been reporting on them. That was the last report on Mexican sales we did, and the matter ... [continued]
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ICE model sales crash 39% in May High gas prices and a never ending wave of new models has allowed May to reach record EV market share, with plugins reaching a record 63%! However, while record market share was achieved in the past thanks to strong EV sales, this time, ... [continued]
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The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 35.2% share in the UK, up from 30.0% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew modestly year on year (YoY), whilst PHEV grew more. Overall Q1 auto volume was 614,854 units, up some 6% YoY. Tesla was the best-selling BEV brand in ... [continued]
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The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs take 33.0% share in France, up from 22.9% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year (YoY), while PHEV share was flat. Overall Q1 auto volume was 339,478 units, down some 2.5% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling ... [continued]
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May 2026 saw the Tesla Model Y regain the top spot in BEV sales in Australia, after losing it to BYD’s Sealion in April. In fact, the Model Y was Australia’s best-selling vehicle of all powertrains — the first EV to take the gold. In May 2026, 107,000 passenger vehicles ... [continued]
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BEVs on the way up, PHEVs on the way down Plugin vehicle registrations were up 9% year over year (YoY) in April, ending the month at around 1.6 million units. Interestingly, BEVs (+19% YoY) and PHEVs (-9% YoY) behaved very differently, with pure electrics back to double-digit growth while plugin ... [continued]
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Like its close cousin Hyundai, Kia didn’t get the memo that electric vehicle sales are supposed to be dropping in the United States. In the month of May, the Kia EV6 did see a slight decline year over year, dropping 13% from 801 in May 2025 to 708 in May ... [continued]
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Perhaps all the talk of US EV sales crashing was a bit premature! Or perhaps Hyundai has just decided to buck the trend and go its own way. We’ll get much more insight in the coming month when we get more sales data, but, for now, we can say that ... [continued]
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BYD’s passenger vehicle sales may be in a transitionary moment, going from year-over-year drops in the beginning of the year to a big sales rise in the second half of the year. In May, they were basically flat year over year. However, on the commercial vehicle side of the business, ... [continued]
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XPENG is still struggling to find another big growth spurt. Its start to 2026 has not been great from a straight sales perspective. It’s mostly been a matter of trying to maintain a level of stability rather than reaching for the kind of growth it’s seen in recent years. With ... [continued]
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Makings EVs Great Again — EV Share Jumps to 33% in Europe! Thanks to a number of factors (new models, high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs have picked up again in Europe. Close to 385,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in April, 262,000 of them ... [continued]
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The wealthiest country in the region, Chile is known for being ahead of the curve in adopting most new technologies in Latin America. In particular, this is visible in the country having the highest per-capita deployment of solar in the region by quite a margin. Unsurprisingly, Chile was also the ... [continued]
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I read through hundreds if not thousands of comments every week, and sometimes our highly intelligent, tremendously informed readers share information that really makes my eyes pop. Once in a while, something is shared that I really can’t believe I didn’t see or realize earlier. I just had one of ... [continued]
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Surpassing all expectations, Colombia’s EV market is once again growing at explosive rates, with sales in April 2026 more than 300% above those in April 2025. BEV market share alone almost reached 20%, compared with 7.4% 12 months ago! The market has grown faster than even the most optimistic of ... [continued]
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Electric vehicles (EVs), which have zero emissions, lead to lower air pollution. It is known. Then again, for EVs to meet their full green potential, a clean electric grid must power them. When electrical grids across regions are decarbonized, deeper and faster overall emission reductions are the result. What is ... [continued]
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Sales of electric cars in Nordic countries are strong, with Norway and Denmark leading and Sweden and Finland following.
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In April 2026, 25,087 plugin vehicles were sold into the Australian market, out of 94,049 total vehicle sales. This represents almost 27% of the market. Battery electric vehicles achieved 15,459 units sold, and plugin hybrids 9,628. Month on month, BEV numbers appear to have stayed steady, while PHEVs have increased. ... [continued]
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The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 98.6% share in Norway, up from 95.2% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew year on year (YoY), and PHEV share declined. Overall Q1 auto volume was 27,175 units, down some 14% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling BEV in ... [continued]
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Tesla wins gold and silver in a market running at different speeds. BEVs vs. PHEVs Plugin vehicle registrations were up 5% year over year (YoY) in March, ending the month at around 1.7 million units. Interestingly, BEVs (+12% YoY) and PHEVs (-8% YoY) behaved very differently, with pure electrics back ... [continued]
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BEVs reach 22% market share! Thanks to a number of factors (new, cheaper and/or better models, record high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs have risen to record highs in Europe, with over half a million plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in March, 349,000 of them ... [continued]
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A mere quarter ago, we were celebrating the first time ever Latin America had seen more than 100,000 EVs sold in only three months. Now, thanks to significant growth year-on-year (YoY), we’re once again reaching a record, with Q1 surpassing 115,000 EVs sold in the region! This is a deviation ... [continued]
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Things are getting strange in the New Zealand plug-in vehicle market as sales bounce back. In March 2026, plug-ins achieved 26% of all auto sales, doubling month on month. Also, the Toyota BZ4X just outsold the Tesla Model 3! But first, some history. It wasn’t that long ago that I ... [continued]
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Cox Automotive collects the most extensive data on US EV sales, through its long famed and respected arm Kelley Blue Book. In the opening paragraph of its latest report on the market, the company provided a slight silver lining: “At 216,399, EV sales in Q1 were lower by 7.8% compared ... [continued]
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Overall, EV share of the US auto market was 5.9% in the first quarter of 2026, down from 7.6% in Q1 2025 or the industry peak of 10.6% share in Q3 2025. Following up on my broader overview of the US EV market in the first quarter of 2026, let’s ... [continued]
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When Joe Biden and Democrats got control of the White House and Congress, they revived and extended the $7,500 EV tax credit, with some new stipulations but also very inclusive loopholes. In short, Americans were incentivized to buy more new EVs. Then, Donald Trump and Republicans took over and killed ... [continued]
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Tesla’s vehicle sales have declined in recent years, and are basically stagnant in a good quarter these days. However, it is still one of the top EV sellers in the world. Actually, news is that it took back the title of #1 from BYD in the first quarter of 2026 ... [continued]
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