Worldwide electric vehicle sales increased by 44% last year… Tesla 1st place, Hyundai Motors 4th place

Input 2021.03.11 10:45 | Revision 2021.03.11 11:28

Even in a situation where the automobile market stagnated in the aftermath of Corona 19 last year, global eco-friendly car sales increased 44.6% year-on-year.

According to a report on the “2020 electric power vehicle supply status and major policy changes in major countries in 2020” released by the Korea Automobile Industry Association (KAMA) on the 11th, a total of 294,3172 eco-friendly vehicles such as electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and hydrogen vehicles were sold last year. In 2019, 203,4886 units were sold.

By type, pure electric vehicles (BEVs) increased 34.7% year-on-year to 202,5371 units, plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) increased 73.6% to 910,000 units, and hydrogen electric vehicles (FCEVs) increased 9.3% to 8,282 units.

By manufacturer, Tesla sold 442,334 units, ranking first in the sales volume following the previous year. The Volkswagen Group ranked second by selling Volkswagen’s electric car ID.3 and Porsche and Audi’s high-priced electric car models, selling 38,1486 units, up 211.1% year-on-year.

GM, third place, recorded 22,11,116 units, up 134.1% year-on-year due to the expansion of sales of’Hongguang Mini’, which was launched through a joint venture in China. Hyundai Motor Group climbed from 7th in 2019 to 4th last year, recording 19,8487 units, an increase of 59.9% from the previous year.

As for the sales ranking by electric car model, Tesla Model 3 ranked first with 330,302 units, and Hong Guang Mini ranked second with 126603 units. Renault Joe ranked 3rd with 110,103 units, Tesla Model Y 70,273 units 4th, and Hyundai Kona Electric 55981 units 5th.

In addition, KAMA analyzed that the growth of the European and Chinese markets led to an increase in overall electric power vehicle sales. The European electric power car market increased by 133.5% year-on-year to 1.29 million units, and the market share of the electric power car market expanded from 27.2% in the previous year to 43.9%, surpassing that of China (41.1%). As a single market, China ranked ninth with 1.2 million units, with the highest sales volume of electric power vehicles, and Korea with 61,193 units.

The growth of the European electric vehicle market seems to be due to the increase in subsidies for electric power vehicles and the expansion of the electric vehicle infrastructure construction budget to revitalize the automobile industry, which was shrunken by Corona 19. It seems that manufacturers’ increased input of new models to cope with strengthened GHG regulations has also had an impact. In particular, in Germany, France and Italy, sales of electric power vehicles increased by 278.7%, 177.8%, and 251.3% compared to the previous year thanks to increased support such as increased government subsidies. In three countries, subsidies were raised from 1,000 to 4000 euros last year.

KAMA Chairman Chung Man-ki said, “The growth of the electric power vehicle market is a result of incentive policies such as the expansion of government subsidies.” “Do” he emphasized.