It’s a bleak time for America’s electric car market. But zoom out and take a look at what’s happening in the rest of the world, and you quickly see that the U.S. is increasingly the odd one out. As the U.S. stagnates, the EV project is chugging along nicely pretty much everywhere else, according to a new, wide-ranging report out this week from the International Energy Agency.
Over 20 million plug-in cars were sold globally last year, including both plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles. That means 25% of new vehicles had a plug, a new record. About 5% of the global car fleet is now electrified.
