According to the US Department of Energy data, for every year except 2011, the United States has produced the majority of plug-in electric vehicles sold in the United States.
In 2018, the United States produced 75%, Japan 9%, and Germany 5%, while the remaining eight countries listed produced a combined 11%.
In 2011, 55% of the PEVs sold in the United States were produced in Japan, 43% in the United States, and 2% in France.
PEV sales began in December 2010, thus 2011 was the first full year of sales. PEV include both all-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Includes sales of light-duty vehicles only.
[source: Argonne National Laboratory, Assessment of Light-Duty Plug-In Electric Vehicles in the United States, 2010–2018, ANL/ESD-19/2, March 2019.]
