# Global electric vehicle adoption

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2023-01-17
**Categories:** bmw, electric-vehicle-adoption, electric-vehicles, environment, germany, mobility, tesla, volkswagen, wsj
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/global-electric-vehicle-adoption

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This is the current state of global electric vehicle adoption:Last year was the first year that global electric-vehicle sales reached 10% of all car sales -- the total was around 7.8 million cars (see above chart)Fully-electric vehicles accounted for about 5.8% of all car sales in the US, 11% of all car sales in Europe, and about 19% of all car sales in China -- China is leading in this departmentThe US saw 807,180 fully-electric vehicle sales last year -- Tesla remains the biggest EV maker in the worldIn Germany, electric vehicles accounted for about 25% of all new vehicles produced last year -- BMW reported a 5% decline in new-car sales, but saw its EV sales more than 2xSimilar story with Volkswagen: 7% decline in new-car sales; 26% increase in EV salesThis year, some are predicting that China will see EV sales increase to every third car, and that it will reach its tipping point sometime between 2025-2030It is obvious where all of this is heading. It is simply a question of how fast, and who will be the leaders at the end of the day. All data sourced from the WSJ

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