{"id":22030,"date":"2022-05-12T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22030"},"modified":"2022-05-12T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T04:04:04","slug":"us-electric-car-sales-2022q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22030","title":{"rendered":"US: All-Electric Car Sales Increased 60% To Almost 160,000 In Q1 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in electric car sales in the US significantly increased during the first quarter of 2022, despite the parts supply constraints, which drove the overall market down by 18% year-over-year to 3.4 million units.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Experian&#8217;s car registration data (via <em>Automotive News<\/em>), used as a proxy of sales, some<strong> 158,689<\/strong> battery-electric vehicles were registered in Q1 2022, which is <strong>60% more<\/strong> than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to such outstanding results, BEV market share improved to a new record of <strong>4.6%<\/strong> nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, among the top 10 all-electric models, four were Tesla cars (Model 3\/Model Y, Model S\/Model X) and three from Hyundai Motor Group (Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 and Kia Niro EV). The only other models in the top 10 were the Ford Mustang Mach-E, Nissan LEAF and Volkswagen ID.4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/\">Tesla<\/a>&#8216;s position in the US market is dominant in the BEV segment, as 113,882 registrations in Q1 (up 59% year-over-year) translated into a huge 71.8% share.<\/p>\n<p>Another big thing worth underlining is the progress of the Hyundai Motor Group, which has noted 15,414 units sold, including 8,450 <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/kia\/\">Kia<\/a> and 6,964 <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/hyundai\/\">Hyundai<\/a>. That is two times more than <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> at 7,407.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEV registrations in the US &#8211; Q1 2022:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tesla<\/strong>: 113,882 (up 59%) and 71.8% share in BEV segment<br \/>non-Tesla BEVs: 44,807<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kia<\/strong>: 8,450 (up 735% from 1,011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ford<\/strong>: 7,407 (up 91%)<br \/>&#8211; Mustang Mach-E: 6,957 (up 80%)<br \/>&#8211; E-Transit: 396<br \/>&#8211; F-150 Lightning: 54 (<a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/583683\/watch-unsuspecting-teacher-get-new-ford-f150-lightning-gift\/\">formally launched in May<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hyundai<\/strong>: 6,964 (up 236% from 2,072)<br \/>&#8211; Ioniq 5: 6,265<br \/>&#8211; Kona Electric: 685<br \/>&#8211; Ioniq Electric: 14<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nissan<\/strong> (LEAF): 4,401 (up 23%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volkswagen<\/strong> (ID.4): 2,926 (up 656%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Polestar<\/strong> (Polestar 2): 2,384<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivian<\/strong> (R1T\/R1S): 701 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chevrolet<\/strong> (Bolt EV\/EUV): 479 (down 95%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucid<\/strong> (Air): 308 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>GMC<\/strong> (Hummer EV Pickup): 80 (new)<\/li>\n<li><strong>other brands combined<\/strong>: 10,707<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total<\/strong>: 158,689 (up 60% year-over-year) and 4.6% market share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s domination in the BEV segment is not the only one, as the brand is also <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/578726\/us-tesla-luxury-car-sales-2022q1\/\">considered the number one in premium\/luxury car segment, ahead of BMW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22583340%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Plug-In%20Car%20Sales%20Surge%20To%20New%20Records%20In%20California%20And%20US%20In%20Q1%202022%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22plugin-car-sales-california-us-2022q1%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FE616Oo%2Fs5%2Ffrom-left-tesla-model-s-tesla-model-3-tesla-model-x-and-tesla-model-y.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22583329%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Europe%3A%20Tesla%20Model%203%20Was%20%231%20Most%20Registered%20Vehicle%20Overall%20In%20March%202022%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22europe-plugin-car-sales-march2022-tesla%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FpK9mo%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-3-and-tesla-model-y.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in electric car sales in the US significantly increased during the first quarter of 2022, despite the parts supply constraints, which drove the overall market down by 18% year-over-year to 3.4 million units. According to the Experian&#8217;s car registration data (via Automotive News), used as a proxy of sales, some 158,689 battery-electric vehicles were registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}