If I asked you, “What’s the largest electric car market in the world?,” what would you say?

I track electric car sales in the US, Europe, China, and Japan about as much as I can. I write up monthly reports on some of these, and have tried to do so on all of them. Even just a day ago, I would have said the US. Actually, I did write that just a couple of days ago. But it seems the tide shifted a couple of months ago.

I assumed it wouldn’t be too long until the largest car market in the world overtook the US, especially with the strong incentives the government is providing, major concerns about air pollution, and the fast-growing number of new models targeted for that market, but it still apparently snuck up on me.

What country am I referring to? If you haven’t cracked the code already, that would be China. In September, the US had a bit under 10,000 electric car sales (even if you factor in a […]