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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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- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Report
- Global EV Outlook 2025
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 14 May 2025
- Locator
- Trends in electric car markets
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
Verification
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- Verified
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- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- International Energy Agency. (2025). Global EV Outlook 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE4
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- 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 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE4.
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- International Energy Agency. "Global EV Outlook 2025." 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE4.
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- @misc{iea2025sales, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global EV Outlook 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE4}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: quarterly. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCE4.