Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — South America

Electric car sales in South America in 2025 — 208,400 vehicles. Since 2011, the indicator has risen by 1,389,233.3%.

2025 208,400 vehicles +44.02% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 208,400 vehicles2025
Period minimum 15 vehicles2011

Trend over time

2011–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — South America, 2011–20250100,000200,000300,000201120132015201720192021202320252011: 15 vehicles2012: 71 vehicles2013: 100 vehicles2014: 107 vehicles2015: 167 vehicles2016: 261 vehicles2017: 713 vehicles2018: 1,178 vehicles2019: 3,455 vehicles2020: 3,979 vehicles2021: 17,300 vehicles2022: 24,570 vehicles2023: 59,710 vehicles2024: 144,700 vehicles2025: 208,400 vehicles
Change over the period: +208,385 (+1,389,233.33%) Average annual rate: 97.66 %

Comparison, 2025

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

South America 208,400 vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Electric car sales — South America, by year South America All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 208,400 +63,700 +44.02%
2024 144,700 +84,990 +142.34%
2023 59,710 +35,140 +143.02%
2022 24,570 +7,270 +42.02%
2021 17,300 +13,321 +334.78%
2020 3,979 +524 +15.17%
2019 3,455 +2,277 +193.29%
2018 1,178 +465 +65.22%
2017 713 +452 +173.18%
2016 261 +94 +56.29%
2015 167 +60 +56.07%
2014 107 +7 +7%
2013 100 +29 +40.85%
2012 71 +56 +373.33%
2011 15

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.