Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — Northern America

Electric car sales in Northern America in 2025 — 1,698,000 vehicles. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 141,400%.

2025 1.7M vehicles −4.18% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 1.77M vehicles2024
Period minimum 1,200 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — Northern America, 2010–20250500,0001M1.5M2M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 1,200 vehicles2011: 18,320 vehicles2012: 55,920 vehicles2013: 100,100 vehicles2014: 123,100 vehicles2015: 120,800 vehicles2016: 171,600 vehicles2017: 210,700 vehicles2018: 404,000 vehicles2019: 376,000 vehicles2020: 345,000 vehicles2021: 717,000 vehicles2022: 1,105,000 vehicles2023: 1,561,000 vehicles2024: 1,772,000 vehicles2025: 1,698,000 vehicles
Change over the period: +1.7M (+141,400%) Average annual rate: 62.2 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Northern America

Northern America 1.7M vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Electric car sales — Northern America, by year Northern America All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 1.7M −74,000 −4.18%
2024 1.77M +211,000 +13.52%
2023 1.56M +456,000 +41.27%
2022 1.11M +388,000 +54.11%
2021 717,000 +372,000 +107.83%
2020 345,000 −31,000 −8.24%
2019 376,000 −28,000 −6.93%
2018 404,000 +193,300 +91.74%
2017 210,700 +39,100 +22.79%
2016 171,600 +50,800 +42.05%
2015 120,800 −2,300 −1.87%
2014 123,100 +23,000 +22.98%
2013 100,100 +44,180 +79.01%
2012 55,920 +37,600 +205.24%
2011 18,320 +17,120 +1,426.67%
2010 1,200

About the indicator

The number of electric passenger cars sold over the year, per International Energy Agency data. The concept covers both fully electric cars and hybrids that can be charged from the grid; ordinary hybrids without charging are left out. The growth of this series is among the fastest in the whole of the statistics: over ten years sales have risen roughly a hundredfold, and more than half of the world total is China.

Important: The IEA tracks about sixty of the largest markets, which together account for nearly the entire world total. In the remaining countries sales are not zero but are negligibly small, so aggregates are computed at a lowered coverage threshold.

Source: Global EV Outlook (IEA), license CC BY 4.0.