Chart: EVs Are Ascendant - And Gas Cars Are Past Their Prime

15 Dec 2025 | Abstracted from Canary Media

Global EV sales are surging while gas-only car sales decline 31% from their 2017 peak. In 2024, nearly 11M EVs and 6.5M plug-in hybrids were sold worldwide, up from just 1.2M combined in 2017. China leads with ~60% of new cars electric, projected to hit 80% by 2030. Despite cost and infrastructure hurdles in markets like the U.S., the trend shows EVs rapidly overtaking fossil-fuel vehicles as the dominant choice.

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