With all the announcements of car manufacturers for more gasoline and hybrid cars in their future line -ups, you would think that electric vehicles had stopped selling. Although that perhaps increasingly applies to Tesla, everyone is more than picking up the play. According to analysts at RHO Motion, worldwide EV sales have already increased by 30 percent this year. Even here in the US, EV sales were still 28 percent compared to 2024, despite particularly EV-unfriendly headwind.
For those unfriendly winds, perhaps the sales bump in the US, where the EV sales were only grew by less than 8 percent last year, to contrast. “American drivers bought 30 percent more electric vehicles than last year, used use of the last months of IRA tax benefits before the incentives are expected to be drawn later this year,” said Charles Lester, RHO Motion Data Manager.
With the expected loss of government stimuli and the prospect of new rates that will add tens of thousands of dollars to new car prices, this is probably a good time to buy an EV if you think you want or need one.
Perhaps surprisingly, the growth in the much more EV-Toolerante European Union was hardly higher, with 29 percent for the year so far, helped by a new load on plug-in hybrid weight in France, says Rho Motion. Both Germany and the UK EV markets have grown by 40 percent this year.
China accelerates beyond the rest of the world in terms of exciting its transport, and it is not surprising that it comes at the top of the RHO Motion data, with a growth of 35 percent for the year so far compared to 2024. Month after month shows an even more impressive 73 percent increase year in the year, where the new year in 2024 and 2025.
