During the first half of 2023, all-electric car sales increased quite significantly in the United States, but the growth of the rebounding general car market was similar, which stopped the BEV share from increasing since January., the total number of BEV registrations, during the first six months of 2023, amounted to 546,651, which is about 62 percent more than a year ago and about 7.1 percent of the total market .
BEV share at the end of 2021 was 3.1 percent, which increased to 5.6 percent at the end of 2022. However, the 7.1 percent average share in the first half of the year is the same as the 7.1 percent in January,noted. Is the period of fast expansion over? Well, the volume increases, but it was not easy to gain market share so far this year.
Registration data lags behind sales/deliveries, by at least several weeks, but can be used as a proxy of sales, especially because not all sales numbers are publicly available .remains the largest player in the battery electric vehicle segment with 329,608 registrations and a 60.3 percent share during the period. A year ago, Tesla's share was 67.6 percent so we can see a steady, slow decline.