Electric car use by country
Statistics

Electric car use by country

Section Title: Statistics
Table Section Text: None

Country	PEV stock/cumulative sales(1)	Annual sales(1)	Population 2018 (millions)	Plug-in cars per 1000 people (2018)	% Plug-in passenger cars on the road(7)

2018	2017	2018	2017

China(2)(9)	2,243,772	1,227,770	1,016,002	579,000	1,394.2	1.6	0.94% (2018)

USA(2)	1,126,000	764,666	361,307	199,818	328.5	3.4	0.45% (2018)

Norway(3)(9)	296,215	209,122	86,290	71,737	5.3	55.9	10.7% (2018)

Japan(2)(4)(9)	257,363	205,350	52,013	54,100	126.3	2.0	N/A

UK	212,000	137,000	59,911(2)	49,182(2)	66.0	3.2	0.2% (2016)

France	204,617	149,797	53,745	42,799	67.0	3.1	0.2% (2016)

Germany(2)	196,750	129,246	67,504	54,492	82.9	2.4	0.1% (2016)

Netherlands(9)	145,882	121,540	29,187	11,085	17.3	8.4	1.7% (2018)

Canada(2)	81,435(8)	45,950	33,879(8)	18,746	37.3	2.2(8)	N/A

Sweden(9)	79,579	49,670	29,909	19,793	10.2	7.8	0.6% (2016)

Global Total(2)	5,127,297	3,109,050	2,018,247	1,148,700	7,700	0.7	0.4% (2018)

Light-duty plug-in cumulative registrations in selected regional markets

Europe(5)	1,346,435	940,383	406,052	302,383	526.7	2.6	0.5% (2018)

California(2)	526,199	368,540	157,659	98,540	39.6	13.3	2.1% (2018)

Plug-in vehicle cumulative sales for all class segments in China

China(6) (all class segments)	2,984,447	1,728,447	1,256,000	777,000

Notes (1) Includes sales or registrations of highway legal light-duty vehicles except where noted. (2) Only includes plug-in electric passenger cars.

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Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018, with a market share of 2.1%.
Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018, up 72% from 2017, with a market share of 2.1%.
Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018.

final_sentence: Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018, with a market share of 2.1%.
final_sentence: Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018, up 72% from 2017, with a market share of 2.1%.
final_sentence: Global sales totaled 2,018,247 plug-in passenger cars in 2018.