The global EV race, country by country
Hover any shaded country for its 2025 figures. Switch metric to compare who sells the most EVs, who has the highest adoption rate, and who is growing fastest.
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Who's actually selling and driving the most EVs
Ranked by 2025 electric-car sales where the report gives an absolute figure; sales share and year-on-year growth fill in the picture for every other market.
Top markets by 2025 sales volume
| # | Country | Region | 2025 sales | Share | YoY |
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Slicing the 2025 market three ways
By powertrain (battery-electric vs. plug-in hybrid), by where the manufacturer is headquartered, and by which region actually bought the cars.
Powertrain mix
Manufacturer origin
Regional share of global sales
Five straight years of ~3.5 million more sales, every year
2025 crossed 20 million units for the first time; the IEA expects 23 million in 2026 — 28% of every new car sold worldwide. 2020–2024 reconstructed
Global electric-car sales (million units)
Global sales share of the total car market
Nearly every fourth EV built in 2025 crossed a border
Almost 22 million electric cars were produced globally in 2025 — and China alone made roughly three-quarters of them.
Share of global EV production, 2025
Trade facts, 2025
The battery race is even more concentrated than the car race
Over 80% of the world's battery cells are produced in China — and nearly all the rest come from Korea or Japan.
Share of global battery-cell production, 2025
Why it matters
China accounted for over 80% of battery-cell production in 2025, and an even higher share of the active materials that go into EV batteries. Nearly all battery cells worldwide are supplied by companies headquartered in China, Korea or Japan — a concentration that shapes pricing, trade policy and industrial strategy across every other market in this dashboard.
7 million+ public chargers — and China built most of them
Most EV owners charge privately, but public charging determines whether an EV works for everyone else. China alone accounts for more than 65% of the world's public charging points.
Public charging points by country, 2025
Global facts
Electric LDVs per public charging point — lower means better public-charging access
Going electric still saves money at home — even more so with pricier oil
Home-charged BEVs have saved owners USD 550-1,000 a year compared to gasoline cars since 2020 — and a lot more since the 2026 oil-price spike.
Annual BEV-vs-ICE running-cost saving, 2025
Affordability facts
The recycling wave hasn't hit yet — but it's coming fast
Most EVs on the road today are too young to be recycled. That changes fast after 2030, and EU law already sets hard recycled-content rules for the batteries built to replace them. This section uses S&P Global Mobility, Circular Energy Storage and EU regulation text — not the IEA report — see the note below.
Global end-of-life battery availability (GWh)
Recycling & second-life facts
EU minimum recycled content in new batteries
EU material recovery targets from waste batteries
By 2035, EVs could be the default car almost everywhere
Under the IEA's exploratory scenarios, global sales share roughly doubles by 2035 — and China, the EU and Viet Nam are each projected to cross 80–90%.
2025 vs 2035 forecast sales share, by market
Energy security and grid implications
Every EV on the road displaces oil demand and adds electricity demand — at very different rates depending on the market.
Trucks, and two- and three-wheelers
China's electric-truck boom and Asia's two-wheeler electrification are reshaping road transport well outside the passenger-car headlines.
Where every number comes from
This dashboard is generated by a Python script (data/generate_workbook.py) straight
from figures published in the report below, and ships both as this dashboard's data file and as
the downloadable Excel workbook.
Primary source
Notes on estimates
Figures marked estimate in the workbook are back-calculated from a share the report states applied to a reported regional total (for example, "UAE ≈ 50% of the Middle East's ~75,000 2025 sales"). 2020–2024 in the global trend chart are reconstructed from the report's stated pattern of roughly 3.5 million additional sales every year since 2021, anchored to the confirmed 2025 and 2026 figures. Every other number is stated directly in the report.