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Electric car sales deck

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A five-slide briefing that lives inside a docs page. Each slide is a 16:9 box whose type is sized in container units, so the whole slide scales as one, the way a presentation does, from a phone to a projector. Swipe or scroll between slides, use the buttons or the arrow keys once the deck has focus, or press F for full screen. A link to #evd-3 opens on the third slide.

The deck

Market briefing · 2026

The electric turn

Global electric car sales, 2012–2025 · IEA data

Sold in 2025

21.2 M

electric cars, battery and plug-in hybrid, worldwide*

  • +21%on 17.5 million in 2024
  • ×178since 2012, when 119,000 were sold
  • 63%of them sold in China

* Latest IEA year, the most likely to be revised

World sales, millions

Doubling, then doubling again

2025 hatched: latest year · hover a column

Share of world sales

Europe led in 2020; China leads now

China Europe United States Rest of world

Takeaways

What the numbers say

  1. Growth never stalledSales rose every year since 2012, even in a flat 2019, and added 3.7 million cars in 2025 alone.
  2. China is the market13.3 million of 21.2 million in 2025, more than every other market together.
  3. The rest of the world is wakingOutside China, Europe and the US, sales passed 2 million for the first time.

Source: IEA Global EV Outlook, via Our World in Data. Electric cars are battery electric plus plug-in hybrid passenger cars.

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Slide by slide

  1. The electric turn: the title, framing a briefing on global electric car sales from 2012 to 2025.
  2. Sold in 2025: the headline, 21.2 million cars, with its growth on 2024, since 2012 and China's share of it.
  3. Doubling, then doubling again: world sales by year as columns, the latest year hatched as the most likely to be revised.
  4. Europe led in 2020; China leads now: each market's share of world sales over time.
  5. What the numbers say: three takeaways and the source.

Data

Data table
Year World China Europe United States Rest of world

Millions of cars. Rest of world is the world total minus the three markets.

How it's built

  • Slides are <section>s in a flex row with scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; each is a size container, and every font size is in cqw, so a slide keeps its proportions at any width.
  • Charts are SVG with a fixed viewBox, drawn once from the data and scaled with the slide, so a chart and its type always grow together.
  • Navigation is about thirty lines: the buttons and arrow keys scroll the track, and an IntersectionObserver keeps the counter and the dots in step with swipes. requestFullscreen() turns the stage into a projector view.

Source: IEA Global EV Outlook, as compiled by Our World in Data (updated June 2026). The 2025 values are the latest year reported and the most likely to be revised.

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