2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

estimated 11.3 million electric vehicles sold in the world. The share of EVs in the total sales of automobiles will increase to 20.1 percent in China, and in the world to 10.4 percent. In its outlook, the IEA estimates that 22.1 million new electric vehicles will be sold in the world in 2030 ( Šaroch et al ., 2020). In China it will be nearly nine million, which will be 40 percent of global sales. Electric vehicles are expected to constitute 33.8 percent of total sales of automobiles in China in 2030, while in the world that percentage will reach an average of 17.3 percent.

Figure 1: Electric Vehicle Sales Worldwide (in Thousands of Units) and China’s Share of World Sales

Source: IEA; EVs refers to all electric vehicles (BEVs + PHEVs)

Table 2: Electric Vehicle Sales Outlook (in Thousands of Units) 2020 2025*

2030* 8,937 22,132 40.4%

China World

1,160 2,977 39.0%

4,548 11,341 40.1%

China’s Share of Global EV Sales China: Share of EV Sales in Total Domestic Car Sales World: Share of EV Sales in Total Worldwide Car Sales

5.7%

20.1%

33.8%

4.6%

10.4%

17.3%

Source: IEA; EVs refers to all electric vehicles (BEVs + PHEVs); STEPS scenario; * forecast 3.3 The Stock of Electric Vehicles in China and Worldwide The absolute number of electric vehicles on the road is increasing along with the intensive growth in their sales. In 2020 the number of EVs worldwide exceeded ten million, of which 4.5 million were in China, about 44 percent of the total. The number of EVs on the road in 2020 was not even 1 percent of the total number of personal automobiles in the world, which was approaching 1.1 billion. In China, EVs were 1.7 percent of the national total. According to estimates by the IEA, 45.9 million electric vehicles will be in use worldwide in 2025. Those vehicles will represent 3.2 percent of a projected 1.4 billion personal

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