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World built 202596.4 millionOICA, all vehicles
China share35.8%34,530,738 / 96,383,650 built
Sold 202599.8 millionOICA, all vehicles
Parked95%of a US household-car day (2022 NHTS)

New vehicles sold, 2025 (OICA, all types)

Demand — sales Europe is a region, not a country

Groups, 2025 — different counting bases

These are not one league table. Toyota is sales, VW and GM are deliveries, Stellantis is shipments, Hyundai+Kia is an add of two reported sales figures, is NEV, Tesla is deliveries. Honda’s 3.40 million is production, so it is not on this list.

OICA world sales, 2019–2025

2025 is the first year above 99 million (99,798,406). 2020 fell 13.5% vs 2019. OICA also printed 2005–2015 sales (65.9 million → 89.7 million). There is no 2016–2018 sales series in this pack — the gap is left empty, not filled.

Where they were built, 2025 ()

Top ten countries. Germany is cars only (peak 6,213,460 in 2007). France is cars + LCV. The US sold 16.7 million and built 10.2 million — a net importer (US production peak 13,024,978 in 1999). China NEV 16.626 million of 34,530,738 built.

Battery pack $/kWh ( surveys)

Separate surveys, not one real-dollar stitch. 2010 is from the 2020 survey (>1,100). 2024 pack 115 (BEV 97). 2025 pack 108 (BEV 99; China 84; LFP 81; NMC 128).

Electric cars sold — IEA bounds (BEV + PHEV)

IEA, not a census stitch. 2015 over 0.55 million → 2025 exceeded 20 million / 25% of car sales. 2025 regional bounds: China >13 million ~55%; Europe 4.2 million 28%; US ~1.5 million <10%.

What died

  • Pontiac / Saturn / Hummer — 2010
  • EU diesel cars — 52% (2015) → 18% (2023), after
  • + chips — 2021, 7.7 million lost units, $210bn (AlixPartners)
  • Audi Brussels — closed 28 Feb 2025
  • Vauxhall Luton — closed 28 Mar 2025

Drive — teaching toy, not a forecast

fleet AV trucks EV share of new cars Leftover human taxi miles

Ends on the sliders are published houses only. IEA / OEM for the 2030 EV band (35–60; start = IEA 2025 ~25%). Goldman Sachs for robotaxis (~7k now → 35k US slow / 1,000k global fast), US AV trucks (~25k = <1% fleet), and US rideshare AV share (<1% now → 8% in 2030). Private-car keep uses the Goldman base: 3 million AV vs 300 million US parc in 2035.

World motor vehicle production (OICA)

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Production, key years 2017 peak 97,302,534

Key years only — the line jumps the years we do not have. 1950–2000 are Wikipedia compilations of OICA. 2020 is wiki 77,621,582 (OICA said <78 million, −16%). 2017 is the peak (97,302,534). 2018 production is not in this pack. World sales 2019–2025 sit on the Sales tab; 2016–2018 sales are a gap and are not drawn.

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