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The Tesla Model Y is the first electric vehicle to become the world's best-selling car in 2023, outselling the Toyota Corolla.
Battery electric vehicles are vehicles exclusively using chemical energy stored in rechargeable batterypacks, with no secondary source of propulsion (e.g., hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.). The following list includes mass-produced vehicles, formerly produced vehicles, and planned vehicles.
Highway-capable battery electric automobiles capable of 100km/h (62mph)highway speed:
Global market
Production highway-capable battery electric automobiles originating outside the Chinese market, both dedicated battery electric vehicles (without an ICE-powered counterpart sharing the same body) or non-dedicated battery electric vehicles (based on an ICE-powered vehicle):
Production highway-capable battery electric automobiles originating within the Chinese market, including vehicles produced by Chinese manufacturers for domestic market and export markets, and vehicles developed by foreign manufacturers that are only offered in the Chinese market:
The Spark EV was released in selected markets in California and Oregon in June 2013.[27] GM planned to sell the Spark in Canada, South Korea and select European markets.[28][29]
Production was to be limited to only 1,100 units over the first three years. Deliveries to retail customers in the U.S. began in July 2012 and availability is limited to California and Oregon.[37]
Developed with Tesla Motors. Limited production of 500 A-Class E-Cell electric cars was built, for trial purposes and lease to customers in Europe.[41]
Was available in Asia, Europe and the Americas.[44] It was the first electric car to sell more than 10,000 units, including Citroën C-Zero and Peugeot iOn. According to Guinness World Records, the record was reached in February 2011.[45] Global sales totaled about 37,600 units through June 2016.[46]
Since 2001 more than 4,000 cars were sold worldwide by March 2011 and was available in 26 countries.[49][50] Sales in the UK, where it was sold as the G-Wiz and became its main market, ended by late 2011.[51]
Sales began in the U.S. in April 2011.[65] A total of 34 units had been sold by March 2012,[66] and 400 had been produced when production ended in 2013.
Supposed to go into production with concept model already being shown to the public, but the company went bankrupt in 2021 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
Supposed to go into production with concept model already being shown to the public, but the company went bankrupt in October 2024 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
Supposed to go into production with concept model already being shown to the public, but the company went bankrupt in October 2024 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
Supposed to go into production with concept model already being shown to the public, but the company went bankrupt in October 2024 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
Supposed to go into production with prototype model already being shown to the public, but the company went bankrupt in October 2023 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
Supposed to go into production with concept model already being shown to the public, but the company in September 2025 and cancelled the entire vehicle.
↑Indicates whether the vehicle is a dedicated battery electric vehicle without any non-battery electric counterpart sharing the same underpinnings or body
↑Cobb, Jeff (10 August 2016). "Global 10 Best-Selling Plug-In Cars Are Accelerating Forward". HybridCars.com. Retrieved 13 August 2016.As of June2016[update], cumulative global sales of the top selling plug-in electric cars were led by the Nissan Leaf (over 228,000), followed by the Tesla Model S (129,393), Votl/Ampera family (about 117,300), Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (about 107,400), Toyota Prius PHV (over 75,400), BYD Qin (56,191), Renault Zoe (51,193), BMW i3 (around 49,500), Mitsubishi i-MiEV family (about 37,600) and BYD Tang (37,509).
↑Groupe Renaul (19 March 2020). "2019 Universal Registration Document"(PDF). Renault. Retrieved 22 May 2020.See pp. 24 and 39. Since the launch of the Renault electric program, the Group has sold more than 252,000 electric vehicles in Europe and more than 273,550 electric vehicles worldwide. Since inception, a total of 181,893 Zoe cars, 48,821 Kangoo Z.E. electric vans and 10,600 Fluence Z.E./SM3 Z.E. cars have been sold globally through December 2019.
↑Jeff Cobb (6 January 2014). "December 2013 Dashboard". HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
↑Jeff Cobb (3 December 2014). "November 2014 Dashboard". HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates. Retrieved 7 December 2014.See section "November 2014 Battery Electric Car Sales Numbers"
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