Foreign development of electric vehicles

Famous automobile manufacturers in the world are stepping up the development of various types of electric vehicles, and have made a certain degree of progress and breakthroughs.
First, Japan has always attached great importance to the research and development of electric vehicles out of concern for the energy crisis and environmental protection and the consideration of occupying the future world automobile market. From the current worldwide situation, Japan is one of the few countries with the fastest development rate of electric vehicle technology, especially in the product development of hybrid electric vehicles, Japan ranks as the world leader. Companies, only Japan's Toyota and Honda two car companies. In December 1997, Toyota Motor Corporation first launched the world's first mass-produced hybrid sedan PRIUS in the Japanese market. The car was exported to North America in July 2000 and to Europe in September of the same year, and has been sold in more than 20 countries around the world. The current product is already the second generation of products after many improvements, and its production process is more mature. According to Toyota Motor Corp. 's tests, the PRIUS is 44.4% more fuel-efficient in city conditions than a Corolla with the same displacement. Suburban fuel saving 29.7%, comprehensive fuel saving 40.5%. Statistics show that Toyota Motor Corporation has a 90% share of the global hybrid car market. On September 15, 2004, FAW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan held a signing ceremony of the hybrid electric vehicle cooperation project in Beijing, announcing that the two sides would cooperate in 2005. Jointly produce the Toyota PRIUS hybrid sedan. The PRIUS hybrid sedan will enter the Chinese market in the same year.
Following the PRIUS hybrid sedan, Toyota also introduced the ESTIMA hybrid and the CROWN sedan with a soft hybrid system. Toyota has been at the forefront of the world in popularizing hybrid systems with low fuel consumption, low emissions and improved driving performance. Besides. The Insight hybrid electric car, developed by Honda Motor Co., is also on the market. Demand exceeds supply. In April 2002, Honda Motor Company launched the Civic hybrid in the U.S. market. Nissan Motor Co. announced that it will sell its Ahima hybrid vehicle to the U.S. market in 2006, the first product under an agreement it signed with Toyota Motor Corp. in 2002 to jointly produce hybrid vehicles.
Second, the United States. American car companies in the industrialization of electric vehicles than their Japanese counterparts are inferior, the three major car companies only small batch production, sales of pure electric vehicles, and hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles have not been industrialized, from Japan's hybrid electric vehicles in the United States market occupy a dominant position.
Third, Norway. In 2012, the number of electric vehicles sold in Norway reached 10,000, accounting for 5.2% of new car sales that year, which is quite remarkable for a country with a population of only 5 million. Most of the electric vehicles in the Norwegian market are Nissan Leaf models, which ranked 13th in the Norwegian car sales market in 2012. Other brands of electric vehicles include Revas and KewetBuddies.
On June 29, 2021 local time, according to the latest report released by the International Council on Clean Transportation, the production of electric vehicles in the United States is far behind that of China and Europe, and this gap has expanded in the past three years.
Germany will sell about 340,000 electric vehicles in 2021, 1.8 times more than in 2020, and four times more hybrid cars in 2021. About 490,000 electric vehicles will be sold in the United States in 2021, which is also 1.8 times that of 2020. 
On July 19, 2023, data released by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association showed that new sales of pure electric vehicles exceeded diesel vehicles for the first time, with the former selling 158,252 units and the latter 139,595 units. As a result, the market share of pure electric vehicles reached 15.1%, an increase of more than 4 percentage points year-on-year. 
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Global electric vehicle sales doubled to 4.6 million in 2021, overtaking hybrid models for the first time.
In 2021, global electric vehicle sales increased to 2.2 times the 2020 level, while hybrid vehicle sales increased by 35% to around 3.1 million units. Global electric vehicle sales have nearly tripled since 2019, while hybrid vehicle sales have grown by about 30%.