The development of the world electric vehicles fleet in years 2010-2017

Abstract

The article characterises the development of the world fleet of electric vehicles in years 2010-2017. It presents global forecasts of the fleet of passenger HEVs, PHEVs and BEVs. Changes in production volumes and number of registered types of vehicles are presented in a breakdown into respective countries. The overall number of HEVs produced thus far is estimated at approx. 12.5 million. There are roughly 38 thousand HEVs registered in Poland. Of 3.2 million electric plug-in vehicles and BEVs used in the world in 2017. Yet, electric plug-in vehicles (BEVs and PHEVs) globally accounted for just 0.3% of the worldwide fleet of passenger cars in 2017. Despite the considerable boost in the sales of electrically-powered vehicles in recent years, especially in the plug-in category, with increase from 6500 cars in 2010 to 553 thousand vehicles in 2015 and approx. 750 thousand in 2016 and over 1.1 million vehicles in 2017, including BEVs – from 6000 in 2010 to roughly 760 thousand in 2017, the sales levels still do not come to the volumes expected at the beginning of the 2000s.