page_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in California
section_title: Market outlook
hierarchical_section_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in California / Market outlook
caption_attribution_description: English: Annual sales of plug-in electric vehicles in the United States and California from December 2010 through December 2019. Data series taken from the California New Car Dealer Association (2015-2019,2014-2018, 2013-2015, and 2011-2012. US data from HybridCars.com and InsideEVs.com for 2018 and 2019.
context_page_description: The stock of plug-in electric vehicles in California is the largest in the United States, with cumulative sales of almost 670,000 plug-in cars by the end of 2019. California is the largest U.S. car market with about 10% of all new car sales in the country, but has accounted for almost half of all plug-in cars sold in the American market since 2011. Since November 2016, China is the only country market that exceeds California in terms of cumulative plug-in electric car sales.
  California's plug-in car market share reached 4.8% in 2017, while the national share was 1.1%. Also in 2017, the state's plug-in segment market share surpassed the take-rate of conventional hybrids for the first time. The plug-in market share rose to 7.8% in 2018, again ahead of conventional hybrids, and for the first time sales of all-electric cars outsold conventional hybrids. The plug-in market share slightly declined in 2019 to 7.7%, while the take-rate of conventional hybrids rose to 5.5%.
caption: Comparison of annual sales of plug-in electric vehicles in the United States versus California between 2010 and 2019.[1][2][71][72][73]
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