Growth in electric vehicle sales is flagging

Despite selling more than ten million purely battery-powered vehicles worldwide last year, growth in the e-car market is slowing - including in Switzerland. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to an analysis by the German news agency DPA, there were 10.4 million sales in the 21 markets examined by management consultants PwC. This represents an increase of 14.3% on 2023. But PwC's initial calculation of 28% growth in 2023 has been revised downwards. The main reason for this is that PwC has corrected its data collection method for China in order to prevent vehicles exported from there from being counted twice. The difference is in the hundreds of thousands. + Switzerland gears up for driverless transport era Declines in Switzerland too China is the dominant market in absolute terms, accounting for almost two thirds of the volume - specifically 6.7 million pure electric vehicles (BEVs). It is also well above average in terms of growth at a good 20% - ...