BEV sales reached 12.3 million units worldwide in 2025
- Global sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) reached 12.3 million units in 2025 (13.5% of the global market) – nearly one million units per month on average – compared to 10.36 million units in 2024 (11.5% of the global market). This volume represents an 18.7% increase compared to 2024. It is distributed across four main regions: China (8.40 million units compared to 7.04 million in 2024), Europe (30 countries = EU + UK + Switzerland + Norway) (2.58 million units compared to 1.99 million in 2024), the USA (1.27 million units compared to 1.27 million in 2024), and Japan (48,000 units compared to 56,000 in 2024).
- The trend observed in China is uninterrupted growth in BEV sales since 2020, to the point of representing 28% of total sales in this market for the entire year of 2025. However, BEV sales have accelerated in the last months of the year, approaching 35% of the market during this period. It is highly likely that BEV sales growth will continue in China in 2026, reaching between 30% and 33% of the market for the entire year.
- The trend observed in Europe is growth in BEV sales, which accelerated in the last months of 2025, thanks in particular to the arrival of small electric models (such as the Renault 5 E-Tech). This phenomenon is expected to intensify in 2026 with the arrival of new small electric models (notably those from the Volkswagen Group). BEVs could ultimately reach between 20% and 25% of the market for the entire year.
- The trend observed in the USA and Japan is a stagnation of BEV sales at a low level, between 5% and 10% of the US market in 2026 and significantly less than 5% in Japan.