EV Market Adoption

This cluster debates the current sales, market share, and adoption rates of electric vehicles versus traditional cars, highlighting regional differences, manufacturer strategies, and growth challenges.

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ein0p Feb 22, 2024 View on HN

More cars, not more EVs. A lot of their cars aren’t EVs

BobbyJo Dec 26, 2020 View on HN

Yet another reason EVs aren't the dominant market yet.

pge Nov 21, 2024 View on HN

Three or four years ago, I would have agreed with your statement about ICE vehicles. Now I question it, at least for the US market. The initial wave of EVs that followed Tesla’s success has ebbed. American manufacturers are dropping, rather than adding EV models. European and Asian manufacturers are not releasing their EV models in the US market (eg VW ID.3), because there’s too little demand. Given all that, I don’t know how the market will reach the critical mass necessary to ensure that charg

rowanG077 Apr 5, 2022 View on HN

7% is HUGE. Like country level huge. Besides Teslas impact is not only the EV they have sold. They made EVs popular and desirable. Electric vehicles are definitely mainstream. In my country(Netherlands) 20% of all vehicles sold are electric. In Norway it's more then 50%. You really can't get more mainstream then that.

jeo123 Nov 4, 2023 View on HN

People into EV dont read statistics. I their worldview everyone bought EVs. Everyone lives in Bay area and drives EVs without touching the steering wheel. Meanwhile thousands pay for 2nd or 3rd hand cheap ICE car. A lot of my friends were shock when they lookup how small EV sales is in the world market. Even in USA, EVs is around maybe at best 5%-10% sales. And that is NEW car sales (with government subsidies). You add in used market, that numbers drop less than 1%. Even even today, Tesla is not

iknowstuff Jan 15, 2026 View on HN

~40% of global car sales are EV.

dimator Nov 24, 2019 View on HN

You are correcthttps://evadoption.com/ev-sales/evs-percent-of-vehicle-sales...

protimewaster Nov 30, 2025 View on HN

Is 152 out of 11,000 EV sales fine? It seems low.

shever73 Jan 4, 2024 View on HN

* Fewer people in the United States.The World Economic Forum reports that EV sales are still strong in Europe[0][0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/11/electric-car-sales-eu...

Schiendelman Jan 9, 2021 View on HN

Is electric car market share increasing faster than the growth in all cars?