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Electric cars sold this year
- 23 million Projection · 2026 · IEA
- 0.7288 electric cars per second, modelled
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 0.7288
- Per minute
- 43.7
- Per hour
- 2,623
- Per day
- 62,970
- Still to come this year
- 5,897,748
Counted in electric cars.
How this number is made
- Source
- IEA, Global EV Outlook 2026 (20 May 2026)
“Global electric car sales are expected to grow to 23 million in 2026, representing 28% of total car sales.”
- Step 01
Take IEA’s figure for 2026: 23 million (a projection).
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 43.7 electric cars per minute.
- Step 03
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. The annual figure is IEA’s projection; the counter moves to the published actual once it is released. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
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