{"id":606910,"date":"2026-05-24T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=606910"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:45:00","slug":"1-in-4-cars-sold-globally-is-an-electric-vehicle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=606910","title":{"rendered":"1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Electric vehicle adoption continues to accelerate worldwide,<\/strong> reaching new milestones in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36230\/global-unit-sales-of-electric-vehicles-and-market-share-within-passenger-car-sales\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Tristan Gaudiaut details below,<\/a> according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/data-tools\/global-ev-data-explorer\/\">IEA Global EV Outlook 2026<\/a>, published on May 20, global sales of electric cars, including plug-in hybrids, surpassed 21 million units last year, more than doubling since 2022, when annual sales first exceeded 10 million.<\/p>\n<p>As the chart shows, EVs now account for roughly one in four passenger car sales globally, meaning <strong>their market share climbed to 25 percent in 2025, up from just 2 percent in 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36230\/global-unit-sales-of-electric-vehicles-and-market-share-within-passenger-car-sales\/\" title=\"Infographic: One in Four Cars Sold Globally Is an Electric Vehicle | Statista\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infographic: One in Four Cars Sold Globally Is an Electric Vehicle | Statista\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36230.jpeg\" width=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This rapid growth has been driven largely by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/5623\/electric-vehicle-market-in-china\/\">China<\/a>, which remains by far the largest market.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With more than 13 million electric vehicles sold in 2025, the country alone accounted for around 60 percent of global sales.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>adoption has also increased steadily in the rest of the world<\/strong>, with nearly 8 million units sold \u2013 largely in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/3213\/electric-mobility-in-europe\/\">Europe<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/4421\/the-us-electric-vehicle-industry\/\">United States<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the data highlight China\u2019s dominant role in shaping the global EV market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 05\/24\/2026 &#8211; 08:45<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36230.jpeg\" title=\"1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle Electric vehicle adoption continues to accelerate worldwide, reaching new milestones in 2025. As Statista&#8217;s Tristan Gaudiaut details below, according to the\u00a0IEA Global EV Outlook 2026, published on May 20, global sales of electric cars, including plug-in hybrids, surpassed 21 million units last year, more than&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=606910\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}