Electric car sales (quarterly)
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T5Y-8Q942ASAAP-R3YCE2
Global · Q1 2025
Electric car sales worldwide were more than 4 million in Q1 2025 (IEA).
Electric car sales (quarterly): every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Global EV Outlook 2025
- Locator
- Trends in electric car markets
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified · automated check
What the source says
More than 4 million electric cars were sold in the first quarter of 2025 as sales grew by 35% compared to the first quarter of 2024, which was higher than the growth rate observed in the first quarters of the previous 2 years.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2025). Global EV Outlook 2025. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE2
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Global EV Outlook 2025." 2025, https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE2.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Global EV Outlook 2025." 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE2.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2025quarterlyr3yce2, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global EV Outlook 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE2}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. 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 2025
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 14 May 2025
- Locator
- Trends in electric car markets
- 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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE2