{
  "meta": {
    "key": "ev_sales",
    "title": "Global EV Sales",
    "unit": "million",
    "category": "Energy",
    "source": "IEA Global EV Outlook",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026",
    "verified": "2026-09-06",
    "url": "https://exponentialtracker.com/curve/ev_sales",
    "csv": "https://exponentialtracker.com/data/ev_sales.csv",
    "json": "https://exponentialtracker.com/data/ev_sales.json",
    "retrievedFrom": "Compiled by Exponential Tracker and re-derived from the source named above. Rebuilt on every deploy, so re-fetch rather than trusting a saved copy to be current.",
    "rights": "The underlying data belongs to IEA Global EV Outlook. This compilation may be reused with attribution to Exponential Tracker. No licence is claimed or implied over the source data.",
    "citation": "Exponential Tracker, \"Global EV Sales\", exponentialtracker.com/curve/ev_sales, data verified 2026-09-06. Underlying source: IEA Global EV Outlook."
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "year": 2010,
      "value": 0.0074,
      "label": "7,400 cars sold worldwide"
    },
    {
      "year": 2011,
      "value": 0.049,
      "label": "~49K, Nissan Leaf era"
    },
    {
      "year": 2012,
      "value": 0.12
    },
    {
      "year": 2013,
      "value": 0.21
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "value": 0.33
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "value": 0.53
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "value": 0.78
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "value": 1.2,
      "label": "1M milestone"
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "value": 2.1
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "value": 3,
      "label": "Policy inflection"
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "value": 6.6
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "value": 10
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "value": 14
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "value": 17,
      "label": "17M, 1 in 5 new cars"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "value": 21,
      "label": "21M, 25% of new cars (IEA)"
    }
  ]
}