{"id":82777,"date":"2025-06-04T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82777"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:58:53","slug":"evs-hybrid-sales-were-strong-in-may-as-overall-demand-holds-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82777","title":{"rendered":"EVs, Hybrid sales were strong in May as overall demand holds steady"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With tax refund season behind us and tariff talks taking a back seat to other dystopian headlines, the month of May gave us our first \u201cclean\u201d look at the US car market in 2025 \u2013\u00a0and the verdict is in: hybrids are leading the charge while EVs are a mixed bag.<\/p>\n

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As ever, there are plenty of ways to organize stories like this, and there are more comprehensive sources out there that will give you a deep, model-by-model dive into sales. That said, I\u2019m focusing on the standout performers and \u201cusual suspects\u201d when it comes to EVs and hybrids \u2013\u00a0but don\u2019t let that stop you from leaving your better ideas in the comments (y\u2019all know I read \u2019em<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Kia posted 79,007 units in May for a 5.0% YOY gain and the brand\u2019s eighth consecutive month of year-over-year gains. That number was helped along with a record month for the Carnival minivan and both the Telluride and Sportage SUVs. Two car lines that didn\u2019t help were the Kia EV6 and the brand\u2019s flagship EV9 three-row SUV, which sold just 37 units last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of that is inventory-based<\/a>, as Kia shifts EV9 production from South Korea to its new EV factory in Gerogia<\/a> \u2013\u00a0but no matter the reason, Kia dealers are eager to move their EVs. That means buyers killer deals on the brand EVs and still solid deals on the Kia Sportage Hybrid and Sorrento Plug-in Hybrid, too.<\/p>\n

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Hyundai also had a killer month, with total up 8% YOY and 3.7% from April, which works out to a massive 84,521 unit sales for the month of May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis period really marks our regular annual pricing review,\u201d Randy Parker, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, told a Reuters reporter yesterday<\/a>. \u201cWe take a look at market dynamics, consumer demand, independent of tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Car Dealership Guy<\/a><\/em> reports that those gains were driven by Hyundai\u2019s Elantra N (+141%), and the Venue (+74%), Tucson (+15%), and Palisade (+10%) SUVs, which all set May records. Even the IONIQ 6 electric sedan \u2013\u00a0my pick as the top Tesla Model 3 alternative<\/a> \u2013\u00a0was up 9% YOY, while the first examples of the brand\u2019s three-row IONIQ 9 SUV finally began<\/a>. Hyundai\u2019s hybrid sales, too, were up 5% for the year.<\/p>\n

Toyota saw a massive gain last month as well, delivering nearly 119,000 \u201celectrified\u201d vehicles in May. That number represents a gain of 39% compared to the same month last year, and accounted for almost half of the brand\u2019s total volume for an 11% gain YOY.<\/p>\n

Toyota, of course, is the OG in the hybrid space, and in 2025 \u2013\u00a0nearly thirty years after the launch of the original Toyota Prius in Japan \u2013\u00a0almost all of the brand\u2019s vehicles are hybrid-only or available as hybrids, including the iconic Corolla and Camry brands, the Sierra minivan, and even the Tacoma and Tundra hybrid pickups.<\/p>\n

Over at Ford, CNBC<\/a><\/em> is reporting that sales of the company\u2019s cars were up an impressive 17.2% YOY, driven partly by the brand\u2019s employee pricing deals but even more partly (?) by an absolutely massive 29% jump in the sale of the company\u2019s Ford and Lincoln hybrid models. Lincoln posted its best month of 2025, up 39% YOY.<\/p>\n

Sales of the Ford Mustang Mach-E electric crossover held relatively steady, while Ford F-150 Lightning and E-Transit van sales were down some 25% YOY.<\/p>\n

On the wrong side of the growth table, Subaru sales dipped more than 10% YOY and 6.6% compared to April, while experience the biggest dip of all the legacy brands, down 18.6% YoY and 23.2% vs April. It\u2019s worth noting that Tesla does not<\/em> release monthly sales data in the US, but its overseas sales are even worse than that. CNEVPost<\/em> is reporting that sales are down 15% in China for May<\/a>, while Tesla sales in Germany fell by more than a third in May, even though EV sales overall rose 44.9% YOY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cox Auto\u2019s forecast for May puts the 2025 sales pace at about 16 million unit sales, up slightly from a year earlier but a significant decline from March\u2019s projected sales pace of 17.8 million and April\u2019s 17.3 million unit projected pace.<\/p>\n

SOURCES<\/strong>: source links throughout the article.<\/p>\n

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