Technology & Business2010–2025

EV Makers by Annual Sales

Battery-electric sales begin as a Tesla story and quickly become a China scale story. The overtake to watch is BYD turning from battery supplier into the volume heavyweight of the EV era.

Source: Company delivery reports, EV-Volumes and IEA Global EV Outlook Annual BEV unit estimates by manufacturer group. Plug-in hybrids are excluded where separable; several early years are reconstructed. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-03

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