Quoting the accompanying text from the author at Our World in Data
Electric cars have become incredibly popular in China. In 2020, one in eighteen new cars sold was electric. By 2024, this had increased to one in two.
This growth has pushed down sales of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, which run mostly on petrol. As you can see in the chart, sales of ICE cars peaked in 2017 and have declined since.
The world reached peak ICE car sales just one year later.
The displacement of petrol cars with electric ones is vital in decarbonizing transport. The rise of electric vehicles in China means the IEA expects oil demand to peak earlier than previously projected.
Here, “electric cars” include fully battery-electric ones and plug-in hybrids. In China, 56% of them were fully battery-electric.
Track data on the evolution of electric cars across the world
Posted by cgiattino
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Their electric vehicles can fly now???
Not saying good or bad but the increase of EV sales corresponds to increased government subsidies and other government benefits for EV cars
I hope this will happen in the eu too
I was in China in 2013 and 2014 building ships and loved my electric scooter for getting around town/shipyard.
At the time in the city gas scooters had been banned so your only option was electric.
There wasn’t a huge number of electric cars but at least where I was most of the individual transport was scooter and not passenger vehicles.