American electric exceeded one million

22 October 2018

Since 2010, PEV sales in the US exceeded one million

 According to the study publication InsideEV's series data from official sources, in early October, U.S. sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids have overcome the psychological level of 1 million copies.
For the first 9 months of this year in the U.S. market, has sold about 230 thousand cars with electric drive, and by the end of 2018 is expected to 400 million "green" vehicle.
In its statistics portal InsideEV''s account of pure electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV), whereas the conventional hybrids (HEV) are not taken into account. For today in the USA market pure electric cars dominate the PHEV models. So, in September of this year was 33.8 thousand BEV and only 10.7 thousand plug-in hybrids, PHEV, a total of 44.5 thousand PEV.

Sales of electric vehicles in the us market shows a stable positive trend in August was sold to 36.4 thousand PEV, in July – 29.5 thousand, in June – 25.0 thousand in may – 24,3 thousand in April – 19,5 bn For 2017 in the U.S. market has sold nearly 200 thousand BEV, and for the first three quarters of 2018 – around the world 1 million 67 thousand electric cars.
A million plug-in electric vehicle in the United States, starting in 2010, it turned out mainly through four brands, which provided 70% of total sales:
1. Tesla – 273 773 units, including Model S, Model X, Model 3, but without the Roadster.
2. General Motors – 193 430 units, including the Chevrolet Volt, Bolt EV, Spark EV, and Cadillac ELR PHEV and a CT6;
3. Nissan – 125 513 units, only the LEAF patterns of the two generations;
4. Ford – 110 130 units, including Fusion Energi, C-Max Energi and Focus Electric.