Electric cars as a share of new car sales
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Japan · 2025
Electric cars as a share of new car sales in Japan were less than 3% in 2025 (IEA).
Electric cars as a share of new car sales: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Global EV Outlook 2026
- Locator
- Trends in electric cars
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified · automated check
What the source says
Electric cars accounted for less than 3% of sales, while conventional hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) accounted for around one-third of all car sales in 2025.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2026). Global EV Outlook 2026. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in-electric-cars. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCC0
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Global EV Outlook 2026." 2026, https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in-electric-cars. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCC0.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Global EV Outlook 2026." 2026. https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in-electric-cars. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCC0.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2026salesr3ycc0, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global EV Outlook 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCC0}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in-electric-cars. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Global EV Outlook 2026
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 20 May 2026
- Locator
- Trends in electric cars
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified · automated check
- Review protocol
- Automated check (quote contains value)
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCC0