Electric cars as a share of the car fleet

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5%

Global · end of 2025

Electric cars as a share of the car fleet worldwide stood at 5% at end of 2025 (IEA).

Original source
Publisher
IEA
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Trends in electric cars
Retrieved
14 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

As a result, about 5% of the global car stock is now electrified, displacing 1.2 million barrels of oil per day in 2025.

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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_393AEXZYN1N78WJ9GVW7MREE64
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_393AEXZYN1N78WJ9GVW7MREE64.
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_393AEXZYN1N78WJ9GVW7MREE64.
BibTeX
@misc{iea2026fleetmree64, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global EV Outlook 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_393AEXZYN1N78WJ9GVW7MREE64}, 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
Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary

Verification & Integrity

Audit status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
17 September 2026
Last revision
17 September 2026
Archival URI
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