Electric vehicle sales growth eases to 21% in July, research firm says
China is the world's biggest car market and accounts for more than half of global EV sales, which in Rho Motion's data include battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
Its overall car sales growth slowed in July, with BYD , the world's largest EV maker, recording its third monthly drop in registrations.
The relatively muted slowdown in overall EV sales, however, shows other markets are taking up some of the slack, with European sales, for one, benefiting from incentives aimed at speeding up decarbonization.
Global sales of battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids rose to 1.6 million units in July, Rho Motion data showed.
China's EV sales growth, which averaged 36 percent a month in the first half, eased to 12 percent in July as the previously booming market was dampened by a pause in some 2025 government subsidy schemes for EV and plug-in hybrid purchases, Rho Motion data manager Charles Lester said.
Chinese sales reached around one million vehicles. European sales surged 48 percent to about 390,000 units, while North American sales climbed 10 percent to more than 170,000. Sales in the rest of the world jumped 55 percent to more than 140,000 vehicles.
'Despite regional variations, the overall trajectory for EV adoption in 2025 remains strongly upward,' Lester said.
Chinese car sales are expected to return to strong growth from August as new funds become available for its subsidy schemes, while a cut in US tax credits for buying or leasing new EVs at the end of September will hurt demand there, Lester added.
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