Electric car sales growth rate (quarterly)

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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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_FSN8TKCG57BVXFKR3JWHAV1RZ5

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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_FSN8TKCG57BVXFKR3JWHAV1RZ5.

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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_FSN8TKCG57BVXFKR3JWHAV1RZ5.

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@misc{iea2025salesav1rz5, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global EV Outlook 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FSN8TKCG57BVXFKR3JWHAV1RZ5}, 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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Record last modified 17 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: quarterly. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_FSN8TKCG57BVXFKR3JWHAV1RZ5.