Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025 (cleantechnica.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1918250/global-ev-sales-up-27-in-2025
- Source link: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/13/global-ev-sales-up-27-in-2025-despite-anti-electrification-policies-in-the-us/
> In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US, global EV sales are [1]up 27% over last year , with some legacy automakers -- but not all -- indicating the potential for a successful transition to electric mobility. CleanTechnica has spilled much ink on the pace of plug-in hybrid and full EV adoption, and the [2]latest report from the UK firm Rho Motion (a branch of the price reporting agency Benchmark Mineral Intelligence) adds some fresh insights.
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> Covering the first seven months of 2025, earlier today Rho Motion totaled up more than 10.7 million EVs sold for a "robust" 27% increase over the same period last year, with China leading the pack by a wide margin. Europe also contributed to the overall robustness. Germany and the UK racked up impressive gains and Italy also turning in a mentionable performance. "The European EV market has grown by 30% year-to-date, with strong momentum in both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), up 30% and 32% respectively," Rho Motion summarized.
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> "In contrast, North America's growth has been muted so far in 2025, with the US facing policy headwinds and Canada seeing a slowdown," Rho Motion Data Manager Charles Lester observed. "We expect a short-term lift in US demand ahead of the IRA consumer tax credit deadline in September, followed by a likely dip," Lester added. That short-term lift won't help North America catch up to Europe [...]
Rho Motion's EV sales snapshot shows the recent gains:
Global: 10.7 million, +27%
China: 6.5 million, +29%
Europe: 2.3 million, +30%
North America: 1.0 million, +2%
Rest of World: 0.9 million, +42%
[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/13/global-ev-sales-up-27-in-2025-despite-anti-electrification-policies-in-the-us/
[2] https://rhomotion.com/news/global-ev-sales-grow-by-27-in-the-opening-seven-months-of-the-year/
Let's ruin the economy! (Score:2)
But hey, stock prices are up, because we faked the statistics.
Honestly, does anybody know why stock prices are up when inflation is high and joblessness is rising?
"In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification..." (Score:2)
Our grandfathers generation of journalism professors would be condemning fabrication of an agenda on both sides:
Article lead in line - "In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US,"
A paragraph or two later - "Covering the first seven months of 2025, earlier today Rho Motion totaled up more than 10.7 million EVs sold for a “robust” 27% increase over the same period last year, with China leading the pack by a wide margin."
So, apparently the US has to prove to the world that elec
Stockman says (Score:2)
> US industrial production index—which measures the sum of manufacturing, energy, mining, and utility output—marched straight uphill at a 3.3% annual rate between 1954 and 2007.
> Yet since then it has essentially plateaued, rising by just 0.10% per annum during the past 17 years.
And in those 17 years, national debt has skyrocketed [1]https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/4233... [abcnewsfe.com]
Bank loans don't increase inflation in the long run because the money is paid back. The national debt is unpaid and unlikely to ever be paid. Its just barely serviceable (as in the interest can be paid). In essence, the stock market isn't up, the value of the dollar is down that much. It would be one thing if the stock market growth was from productivity growth, but its from debt growth. This system only works because in
[1] https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/4233c129-155f-410d-bd41-97cc9162cba8/NationalDebt_v02_DP_1684339148116_hpEmbed_1x1.jpg
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"Bank loans don't increase inflation in the long run because the money is paid back."
What does "increase inflation in the long run"? Do increased costs have anything to do with inflation?
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One could say you were on to something, if inflation matched debt increase... but of course it doesn't.
One could say that debt can indirectly fuel inflation, particularly when the Fed starts purchasing treasuries for its QE- but even that effect is quite muted.
You're a bullshit peddler.
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Inflation isn't high.
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I have a guess.
With new policies in the US, profits are expected to skyrocket even though the consumer might get massively screwed.
The policies will likely enable companies to go unchecked, to pay fewer taxes, and to squeeze their employees more, while delivering less reliable value to the consumer. So profit will go up (at least in the short term), the stocks go up too.
A random computer scientist opinion isn't worth much, but that my $.02
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> But hey, stock prices are up, because we faked the statistics.
> Honestly, does anybody know why stock prices are up when inflation is high and joblessness is rising?
What? Not enough doom and gloom for you these days, you want the stock market to suck too?
Re: Let's ruin the economy! (Score:2)
Try adjusting for inflation. Dollar's down 10% since Trump took office. So any stock that's not overly exposed to the price of the dollar is appearing 10% higher than it should.
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"So any stock that's not overly exposed to the price of the dollar is appearing 10% higher than it should."
False. Stock prices are determined by what people are willing to pay for it. Economic factors that affect the value of the dollar also affect what people are willing to pay for stocks.
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That is not how stock valuation works at all.
Certainly, someone who retired at 40 and lives off of their investments should know this.
Just more evidence you're a lying sack of shit and a bullshit artist.
If you graph the S&P vs. inflation, you'll see that there is no causative relationship whatsoever.
There are indicators that volatility is increased, however.
This should make sense, of course.
People don't price bonds based on how much eggs cost.
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if the inflation was high (which it isn't) the stock prices of companies selling products at higher prices would also be up.
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Which would suggest that stocks are inflation-resistant, yet they aren't.
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Stocks are very inflation resistant.
Many graphs confirm this.
BLS lies (Re:Let's ruin the economy!) (Score:1)
Inflation rates I found for the last few years, off a random website that is quoting US BLS.
July 2025: 2.7%
Average 2024: 2.9%
Average 2023: 4.1%
Average 2022: 8.0%
Average 2021: 4.7%
Average 2020: 1.2%
Average 2019: 1.8%
Average 2018: 2.4%
Average 2017: 2.1%
Average 2016: 1.3%
Average 2015: 0.1%
Inflation is certainly higher than that seen in 2015 but other than that it looks to be pretty typical. If you want to blame this on faked statistics from BLS then I'd say that applies regardless of when the BLS released inf
Re: Let's ruin the economy! (Score:1)
Jobs are up and inflation is down.
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Oh, it's really simple: the majority of the stock market is owned by rich people. Moreover, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 are worth about 40% of the index? So when Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and a few others go up, the whole index goes up. Who's Nvidia selling GPUs to? All the other companies at the top of the index. The AI hype is pumping billions into the top end of the market.
It's worth remembering that the stock market is not the economy, and certainly the S&P 500 is
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Finally, someone has the right answer.
As you said, it's very simple.
The majority of the stock market is owned by people that don't have to recompute their budgets based on an 8% increase in CPI, because, this may come as a shock to some people- but a large percentage of their income is not spent on groceries and gas.
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America has an AI/tech induced "Dutch disease" problem. It's not going to get better anytime soon.
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"Dutch disease" requires a single source of income to displace all others. The USA has a very diverse economy that it is unlikely for AI, data centers, or anything related, to cause a problem.
Not for me thanks... (Score:1)
As someone who has designed and built 40,000ah worth of powerwalls to date, and has a lithium battery welder in his lab, there is no way I would so much as ride in one of these. Watching my home almost explode last year as salty flood waters inundated my neighborhood, was part of it, but watching my neighbors Tesla burn his house down with 3 other expensive vehicles in the garage, only 6 doors down, was was sealed it. It happened CRAZY FAST. 10-15 seconds and it was 1000 degrees in that car with a 3 foot bl
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I don't have a horse trailer and don't want an EV.
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This reads like a forward from grandma.
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Got a link to the news article about this certainly true story?
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Eh, you're pretty unhinged.
But in this instance regarding large lithium battery installations in areas that can potentially flood really isn't a great idea.
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How on Earth would you doubt it?
It'd be fucking miraculous if it hadn't happened.
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Our first moron with mod points who needs to learn about sodium chloride, water, and thermal runaway.
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> Got a link to the news article about this certainly true story?
I got a couple links from searching on "hurricane milton battery fire":
[1]https://ctif.org/news/11-elect... [ctif.org]
[2]https://www.miamiherald.com/ne... [miamiherald.com]
From the second link: "The effect is akin to accidentally touching both terminals of a car battery with a wrench â" sparks will fly."
I can relate, I was working on my car in the cold so I was wearing some cotton gloves while tightening up the bolts on my battery. My wrench slipped off the bolt and I happened to touch the wrench across the battery terminals which set
[1] https://ctif.org/news/11-electric-cars-and-48-lithium-batteries-caught-fire-after-exposure-salty-flood-water
[2] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article293730084.html
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Complete bullshit. Need to make your lies more believable, comrade.
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Why do you doubt basic physics?
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then wait for sodium batteries.
BTW: China now has VERY strict laws on batteries for cars.
They must not explode or catch fire if stabbed or damaged.
flooding should be covered too.
Elephant in the room (Score:2)
Tesla's sales are collapsing. Noted rap music expert and YouTuber Patrick Boyle did a pretty good video on the topic.
It's like a reverse BSD is dead where in this case Tesla really is dying. If musk doesn't somehow convince Trump to give him back his subsidies Tesla isn't going to last through next year.
He can't even pump the stock with AI because he can't get engineers. There's too much competition and he's pissed off too many people.
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How is this a problem?
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LOL, it wasn't a Nazi salute, it was TWO Nazi salutes. It wasn't an emotional gesture, it was a planned heil hitler, followed by a turn and another heil hitler.
You morons are pathetic.
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> Tesla's sales are collapsing...
That's fine, there now are a ton of other companies producing plug-in hybrids and battery EVs. If there's demand, someone will build the cars. It doesn't have to be Tesla.
The sub headline of the article ought to be "and most of the growth and sales were in China." I'm not sure what that tells us. Either the Chinese cars are really good (which I've heard they are) and/or they're really cheap (which I've also heard) and/or the prices are being subsidized by Chinese taxpayers (which I have no idea whether that
In a word, China (Score:2)
They are producing very competitive EV's for internal consumption and ROW. EU not as much, and US, well, banned. Personally I'd probably get the Xiaonomi SU7 if it were not banned. The non-race SU-7 model I thought was around 50, very nice interior/exterior. And for another 20 I think it is, you have nearly the fastest car ever made around the ring, and probably the fastest production car. Which is kind of where meh US made EV's start.
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And China has the ability to make an individual's/family's decision whether or not to buy an EV factor significantly into their social credit score, giving the country an ability to strongly pressure its citizens to buy EVs, artificially inflating the "demand" for them.
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"...artificially inflating the "demand" for them."
No, raising the REAL "demand" for them. And that's good for the environment.
It only upsets you because of your own prejudices, and it's only an alleged "ability", according to you, there's isn't even a claim that they do that. Pathetic.
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Maybe, but for less than 8000 USD, you can get an EV in china. How many mericans would buy a EV if it were 8K? [1]https://electrek.co/2025/04/08... [electrek.co] If I remember correctly, I saw a golf cart/farm cart thing at costco that was priced at 12. You can't buy an ICE car here for less than 20. And I expect the BYD is equipped as well as the Mitsu Mirage at 2.5x the price of the BYD.
[1] https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/byds-low-cost-seagull-ev-now-starts-under-8000-china/
Lame summary (Score:2)
People buying EVs globally isn't a rebuke of anything. People are buying what they want. Unless, if course, people are being forced to buy EVs...
Re: Lame summary (Score:1)
the lines of EV "dead robots" waiting for a spot at charging in subzero (F) was all anyone around me needed to see, the cold even broke some chargers. And yes, it gets colder here than in the nordic paradise some will mention
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In your roll-coaling dreams.
Rebuke what again? (Re:Lame summary) (Score:1)
I can agree that there's no "rebuke" of anything. Where is this "anti-electrification agenda" in the USA? Is this about the expiration of BEV subsidies? That was planned out a long time ago, and no longer having favoritism for EVs hardly equates to opposing them.
I like the idea of BEV ownership. I might get one if I felt there was a financial advantage to it. I'd still want a dinosaur burning truck or SUV because of my driving habits, the tendency for deep snow around here, and because I'm still nervou
It can't be! Must be lies (Score:2)
This must be lies and propaganda. Slashdot luddites have assured me EVs will never take off because they have a giant pickup that doesn't even fit in a single parking spot and they need to be able to haul 5 tons in order to drive to the office.
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A comment only relevant because you identify as a "Slashdot luddite".
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When "the office" is a shop producing furniture then having a diesel truck or cargo van is something of a necessity. It's as if people forget that not everyone gets paid to type on a computer keyboard.
Where I see a problem with EV adoption is in mining and refining the raw materials for making enough batteries to meet demand.
If what people wanted was a car that could get them to and from work, school, etc. on an overnight charge from a common 120VAC outlet then we had that nearly 30 years ago with the GM E
Cadillac announced plans to sell EVs exclusively (Score:2)
Cadillac recently announced plans to sell EVs exclusively but backed down a tiny bit and are selling a redesigned $120K Escalade with a hand-built 6.2L V-8 anyway.
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Sorry for replying to my own comment, but neither article even mentions Cadillac's announced pivot to EVs.
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> The problem is in the fuel, and we can fix that.
Right. People in this country threaten to riot if gas prices go above $4/gal.
Synthetic gas that is genuinely carbon neutral (not just greenwashing like ethanol) will never be less than $20/gal.
In theory, that would work if people were willing to pay more and get more efficient vehicles. In reality, in this country, no fucking way.