In 2023, SUVs made up over half of all battery electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle sales, according to the data released by the Department of Energy (DOE).
Manufacturers now offer EVs in a wide range of vehicle classes. The small SUV category had the highest sales, but combined with the standard SUV category, SUVs overall accounted for 53% of BEV sales and 83% of all PHEV sales.
Cars (represented by the blue shades in the chart) were under 10% of all PHEV sales but accounted for 43.4% of BEV sales.
Over 1.4M plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) were sold in 2023, an increase of over 50% from 2022 sales. BEVs account for 80% of the PEV sales.
PEVs reached 10.5% of monthly sales in September 2024. PEVs were 9.4% of annual passenger vehicle sales in 2023, up from 6.8% in the annual sale of 2022.
Cumulatively, over 5.8 million plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in the United States (as of the end of September 2024)
[source: Argonne National Laboratory, Light Duty Electric Drive Vehicles Monthly Sales Update]
