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In January 2019, with 148,046 units sold since inception in the American market, the Model 3 overtook the Model S to become the all-time best selling all-electric car in the U.S. [218] Until 2019, the Nissan Leaf was the world's all-time top-selling highway legal electric car, with global sales of 450,000 units through December 2019. [207]
President Barack Obama behind the wheel of a new Chevrolet Volt during his tour of the General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, Michigan in 2010. In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama set the goal for the U.S. to become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. [20]
EVs were so popular that even President Woodrow Wilson and his secret service agents toured Washington, D.C., in their Milburn Electrics, which covered 60–70 miles (100–110 km) per charge. [ 9 ]
To be clear: The American market for EVs is not collapsing. In the last quarter of 2023, EV sales were up 40% from the same quarter a year before, according to Cox Automotive.
Nearly 300,000 new EVs were sold in the second quarter, setting a new record in the US, according to a report by Cox Automotive. That marked a 48.4% increase from the same period last year.
Many popular cars released in the last few years fall under the full hybrid category. For example, the best-selling hybrid of all time, the Toyota Prius, has been a full hybrid for more than 20 years.
The Tesla Model 3 became the world's all-time best-selling electric car in early 2020, [19] and in June 2021 became the first electric car to pass 1 million global sales. [20] Together with other emerging automotive technologies such as autonomous driving, connected vehicles and shared mobility, electric cars form a future mobility vision ...
The federal tax credit for EVs can score you as much as $7,500 — but have we forgotten how pricey some electric vehicles can be? Generally speaking, drivers can expect to spend at least $10,000 ...