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.
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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
The race in numbers
3lead changes
15years covered
12contenders
Teslalongest reign — 12 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2025
- 1BYD2.05k
- 2Tesla1.85k
- 3Geely / Zeekr980
- 4Volkswagen Group820
- 5SAIC-GM-Wuling760