The new car sales report issued by the California New Car Dealers Association reveals that the overall California market declined during the first six months by 5.6% year-over-year to 948,563. Especially sales of cars decreased quickly by 10.8%, as the light trucks went down by just 1.1%.
In such an environment, electrified car sales were increasing and reached H1 market share of 13.0% for all xEVs (HEVs, PHEVs, BEVs):
- BEVs: 52,807 (market share of 5.6%), up 60% from 33,015
- PHEVs: 21,193 (market share of 2.2%), down 28% from 29,622
- Total: 74,000 (at 7.8% market share), up 18% from 62,637
- HEVs: 48,861 (market share of 5.2%), up 22% from 40,011
- Total xEVs: 122,861 (market share of 13.0%), up 20% from 102,648
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