The electric car market in the world
The electric car market in the world is still in its very early stages. But it is definitively positioned as the market that is going to replace completely the gasoline car market. In the year 2015 it was estimated by Bloomberg that there were sold 462.000 electric cars in the world. This is a very small percentage of the 75.7 million cars that were sold in the world in 2015 according to the information of the Scotiabank, less than 0.7% of the total world car market in 2015. Furthermore, in countries like USA with big car markets and were electric vehicles are having a lot of attention, in 2014 there were just 120.000 electric cars sold compared to the 15 million cars sold in that nation in 2014.
The electric car industry to grow has to focus on the current main car markets. In the following table you can see the top 10 countries with highest passenger car sales in the world in 2011 according to CNBC:
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Electric car sales worldwide
Car sales worldwide
