As we have reported many times before, the automobile industry all over the world wants to move away from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles and switch to electric vehicles in order to achieve their climate targets towards the end of the 2020s.
Now emerging data reveals that electrification is slowly starting to happen and people are now turning to electric cars. The report shared by EV-Volumes shows that sales of electric vehicles have increased significantly this year, despite the decline in automobile sales due to reasons such as problems in the supply chain and ongoing problems in the world.
Electric vehicle sales increased by 62%
Globally, automobile sales decreased by 8% in the first half of 2022. The reason for this is that, as we said before, fuel prices are skyrocketing all over the world. However, electric vehicle sales increased by 62% compared to the same period of the previous year, from 500,000 to 800,000 this year. Let’s add that in addition to fully electric cars, rechargeable hybrid models (PHEV) are included in the data.
BYD became the company that sold the most electric vehicles
When the sales rates in the first half of 2022 are calculated compared to 2021, the best-selling electric car brand in the world is Shenzhen, China-based company BYD Auto Co. Ltd. it happened. Right after, Tesla, the company of famous billionaire Elon Musk, took place. Volkswagen was in the third place, GM was in the fourth and Hyundai was in the fifth place.
The best-selling models are from Tesla.
Although BYD is the company that sells the most electric vehicles, its manufacturer’s models are not in the top row. However, according to the data of EV Volumes, the best-selling electric vehicle models in the first half of 2022 were Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3. Wuling HongGuang Mini BEV ranked third, BYD Song Pro/Plus PHEV ranked fourth, and BYD Qin Plus DM-i PHEV ranked fifth.
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