Electric car sales keep rising, even as headlines would have you believe otherwise. Gas car sales, however, actually *are* down.

EV sales continue to rise, but the last year of headlines falsely stating otherwise would leave you thinking they haven’t. After about full year of these lies, it would be nice for journalists to stop pushing this false narrative that they could find the truth behind by simply looking up a single number for once.

Here’s what’s actually happening: Over the course of the last year or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, while continuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentage growth rates than they had in previous years.

    • Franklin@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      This is likely due to the difference in market segments, electric vehicles in North America occupy the high-end segment, which prices out most consumers whereas the Chinese market prices for the majority of consumers by using agressive government subsidies.

      Some have speculated that this is so they can price out the compition as these subsidies are unsustainable, but I’m frankly not qualified to examine it.

      • alcoholicorn
        2·
        5 days ago

        This is likely due to the difference in market segments, electric vehicles in North America occupy the high-end segment

        This seems accurate, US car manufacturers are exactly where they want to be with a captive market where the average new car price is up to $50,000

        Some have speculated that this is so they can price out the competition as these subsidies are unsustainable

        It looks like they have an exemption from the 10% sales tax, plus up to $2600 rebate for trade-ins.

        For comparison, the Cash For Clunkers under Obama was up to $4,500.

        This is likely due to the difference in market segments, electric vehicles in North America occupy the high-end segment