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Total registrations in 2015 were up 94.0% from 2014, with all-electric cars growing 48.3% year-on-year, while plug-in hybrid registrations were up 133.0% year-on-year. [ SMMT 5 ] Since 2011, about 54,000 plug-in electric vehicles have been registered in the UK up until December 2015, including plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars, and about ...
In 2021, the first year Car and Driver compared EV models, the Ford Mustang Mach-E received the top honor. The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N fully electric EV has been named EV of the Year by Car and Driver.
The 2021 winner was the Toyota Yaris becoming the fourth model to win the award twice, having previously won in 2000. [24] Kia's first model under their EV nomenclature system for battery electric cars, the EV6, won the 2022 award, marking the first time in history a Korean manufacturer winning the award. [25]
In the year of 2021, the total number of electric cars on the world's roads went to about 16.5 million. The sales of electric cars in the first quarter of 2022 went up to 2 million. [ 250 ] China has the largest all-electric car fleet in use, with 2.58 million at the end of 2019, more than half (53.9%) of the world's electric car stock.
The Tesla Model Y is the first electric vehicle to become the world's best-selling car in 2023, outselling the Toyota Corolla. [1]Battery electric vehicles are vehicles exclusively using chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion (e.g., hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.).
The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV all-electric car listed as the best selling plug-in car in China in 2021. As of December 2023, China had the world's largest stock of highway legal plug-in passenger cars with 20.41 million units, corresponding to almost half of the global plug-in car fleet in use.
As of 2021 the purchase price of an EV is often more, but the total cost of ownership of an EV varies wildly depending on location [127] and distance travelled per year: [128] in parts of the world where fossil fuels are subsidized, lifecycle costs of diesel or gas-powered vehicle are sometimes less than a comparable EV. [129]
The Volkswagen ID.3 was the best selling plug-in car in the Netherlands in 2020. [215] As of 31 December 2021, there were 390,454 highway-legal light-duty plug-in electric vehicles in use in the Netherlands, consisting of 137,663 fully electric cars, 243,664 plug-in hybrid cars and 9,127 light duty plug-in commercial vehicles. [216]