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EVs and PHEVs have captured a larger share of the Russian market as the country reels from a fuel crisis.
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Gasoline shortages following Ukrainian refinery strikes are pushing Russian buyers toward Chinese plug-in cars.
- Russia's EV and PHEV market share is now higher than the U.S.'s
Russia is an unlikely place for an electric car sales breakthrough. It has enormous oil resources, long driving distances, middling infrastructure, and winters that wreak havoc on EV range. Yet it now has a higher share of plug-in car sales than the United States, according to new research from Autostat, as cited by The New York Times. There's a clear reason why