Annual sales of EVs more than quadrupled from 2020 to 2023, with a period of rapid growth beginning in 2021 and culminating in more than one million EV sales for the first time in calendar year 2023.
Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) represented about 20% of all plug-in vehicle sales in 2023. They, too reached record sales in 2023, with more than 250,000 sold.
A total of 141,055 plug-in vehicles (100,928 EVs and 40,127 PHEVs) were sold during December 2023 in the United States, up 42.4% from the sales in December 2022. Plug-in vehicles captured 9.84% of total light-duty vehicles in December 2023.
Cumulatively, 1,402,371 plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles have been sold in 2023.
Cumulative sales of new light-duty plug-in electric vehicles since 2010 reached 4.7 million in 2023.
[Source: Argonne National Laboratory, Light Duty Electric Drive Vehicles Monthly Sales Update]
