The fleet of electric vehicles in the world in 2018 increased by 64% to 5.6 million

22 February 2019

China is increasing its leadership on the global market for electric and hybrid cars

Research center for solar energy and hydrogen Baden-württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg – ZSW) announced that by the end of 2018 the global fleet electric has grown to 5.6 million, which is 64% higher than in 2017.

Global growth PEV all of the above from year to year

Thus, only for the 2018 world fleet grew by a record 2.2 million units (+75% compared to the 2017). So that growth only grows stronger and we can talk about the present boom (especially noticeable on the background of the decline of the Chinese market for the first time in almost three decades).

China and the United States in the global PEV Park take the lion's share

  In the segment of PEV includes battery electric vehicles (BEV) and rechargeable from the mains in hybrids (PHEV). For the second consecutive year the growth of this segment puts the record. Naturally, in the lead is China, the Park of electric cars and hybrids which reached 2.6 million, More than twice as far behind the U.S. with 1.1 million Norway took third place with a Park in RR 298.2 thousand electric cars, well, on the roads of Germany only go 141.7 per thousand of electrical crews – 8th Park in the world. This managing Director of ZSW, Professor, the Fridtjof Stauss said: "the German automotive industry needs to bring to the market its own production facilities valued at several billion euros. So this should give it a remarkably high share of the added cost of batteries for electric vehicles and reduce dependence on overseas supplies."
The share of American brand Tesla has the first place at the new BEV registrations – almost 234 thousand, and it is followed by Chinese brands BYD (216 thousand) and BAIC (161 thousand). The most successful German manufacturer of PEV became BMW became the 6th 86.9 thousand PHEV and hybrids of the series i3, while Volkswagen has occupied only 9-e a place from 53.7 thousand electric cars and hybrids.
At the same time, BYD has become the most successful brand in the world by number of registered electric vehicles in the world (517,2 thousand), followed by Tesla (500,4 thousand). The best German car manufacturer, who took 5th place was BMW (251,9 million).

The growth of new PEV registrations in 2018 again a record – 75%!

Among the models the leader in sales in 2018 became raspiarennaya Tesla Model 3 (the Republic of Uzbekistan 146.3 thousand), despite the fact that it entered the market only in late 2017. This is followed by the BAIC model EC-Series from 90.6 thousand and Nissan LEAF with 81.1 thousand German best-selling model was the BMW 5-series with 29 thousand sold PHEV, which allowed him to go on 22-e a place in the world.
However, according to the size of the global Park is that the most successful model of electric vehicle in history – the Nissan LEAF Park in 363,9 thousand, riding on roads around the world. It is followed by the Tesla Model S to Park in 243,2 thousand Most common German model was the BMW i3, which took 10-th place with 108.6 thous

The PEV market in China ran away from everyone in the world forever

In many countries, "electric mobility" is developing very rapidly, especially in China. It Park for 2018 has nearly doubled over the past year, enrollment increased to 1 million 256 thousand. The US market was again in second place with annual sales of 361,3 thousand in Third was Norway with 86, 3 thousand new registrations. And this despite the fact that the population of this Northern country is only about 5 million people. Already 51% of the automobile market in Norway does not belong to petrol and not diesel engines, and electric motors. Today's record global share. Perhaps Norway will be in the near future, the first country with 100% share in the electric market, but in the more distant future and with absolute shares of electric drive in the Park. For comparison, the share of electric vehicles in China amounted to only about 5%, and in the U.S. – about 2% and it is also a record for these countries.
By the way, in Germany for 2018 implemented 67.5 thousand new PEV – 4-th result in the world, however, the registration of PEV were 13 thousand fewer than in 2017, when it grew by 29.3 thousand This happened due to the fall in sales of PHEV, trapped under the ice rink of the new standards in fuel economy and emissions WLTP and did not allow the segment to rise above 2% of the total market. Professor Stauss believes that German politicians need to increase incentives to strengthen the domestic market, which is fundamentally important for the German automakers, and they need to do more in the transport sector to achieve the goals of climate protection: "as part of this they should also consider the introduction of a tax on emissions of CO₂ as a fraction of the price of traditional fuels to electricity has become a more attractive alternative than the current conventional liquid fuels for transport".
Forecast to 2019 is for the whole world PEV 2.6 million, 57% of which will absorb the Chinese market. According to Bloomberg NEF current world fleet of electric vehicles, including buses and commercial model has about 5 million
ZSW analysts took into account only passenger cars and light commercial electric vehicles driven by batteries, and hybrid models charging from the mains. However, they did not take into account just hybrids (HEV) like the Toyota Prius and "mild" hybrids, and electric cars with hydrogen fuel cells (ASUM) type Toyota Mirai. Vodorodnaya on the roads still so small that reliable statistics on them is not yet available..