Looking at the sales of automakers who report the monthly sales of their plug - in models, we can see that fully
electric car sales grew 102 % in June 2017 versus June 2016, and plug - in hybrid sales grew 11.5 %.
Not exact matches
Elon Musk's
electric car startup finally made the cut after
growing sales a whopping 73 % last year.
While the Chinese government is pushing
electric cars, analysts are wondering how quickly
sales will
grow given the challenges facing Chinese consumers who want an EV.
The
growing share of new
car sales taken up by
electric cars will have reached 10 - 15 %.
As a company - Apple, say, or Tesla - increases
sales of iPhones or
electric cars, it either pays out some of the income as dividends, or invests them in
growing the company, so it becomes more valuable.
The recent rapid
grown in
electric car sales is a positive sign for our environment, but it leaves two major problems:
From
growing electric car sales to Americans eating less beef, greener consumer choices and lifestyle changes — when taken in aggregate — are already influencing national and global emissions.
Oil will
grow until
electric vehicles become a majority of new
car sales, five to ten years from now.
It's only expected to
grow, too — 40 percent of the global investment in
electric cars is happening in China, and the country is expected to account for 50 percent of global EV
sales until 2030.